… In U.S. House races, the Democratic Party’s poor recruiting and fundraising efforts in districts that were narrowly carried by Republicans in 2012 and have significant shares of voting-age Latinos means that many potentially vulnerable GOP House incumbents are getting a pass this cycle. As a consequence, the influence of Latino voters may be limited to a handful of mostly western House districts that were narrowly carried by Democrats in 2012.
In this analysis, I examine two such districts: Arizona’s 1st and 2nd to consider how immigration politics and the support of Latino voters could help the Democrats hold two of the party’s most vulnerable seats. CONT.
David Damore (UNLV), The Monkey Cage