… After nearly a year of breathless reports about how Latinos were going to trip over themselves to get to the polls and vote against Mitt Romney’s hard-line immigration stance — remember Time magazine’s Spanish-language cover “Yo Decido”? — the reality is less dramatic. … According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Latinos casting ballots went down to 48 percent from 49.9 percent in 2008. …
The reason you don’t hear much about these sobering numbers from the Hispanic advocacy organizations — as opposed to how they react with any statistic even remotely suggesting an impending Latino supremacy — is obvious. After all, immigration reform is only in play because Republicans are scared witless that unfavorable Latino voting power will sink their party in upcoming elections. [cont.]
Esther J. Cepeda, Washington Post