U.S. Hispanic adults are more than twice as likely to identify as or lean Democratic than Republican, according to Gallup Daily tracking data collected throughout 2012. In total, 51% of Hispanics identified as or leaned Democratic, while a little less than a quarter (24%) identified with or leaned toward the […] Read more »
Losing Latino voters
The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd takes a “deep dive” into why Hispanic candidates are having trouble winning over heavily Latino districts. Nathan Gonzales, the Deputy Editor of the Rothenberg Political Report and founder of Politics in Stereo, joins to discuss. NBC News Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and […] Read more »
Obama’s revamped image among Hispanics should worry the GOP, big time
Even as Republicans have joined the push for comprehensive immigration reform, a major obstacle stands between the party and winning new support from Hispanics: President Obama. A new Pew Research Center/USA Today survey released Thursday shows that more than seven in 10 Hispanics approve of the job the president is […] Read more »
Lone Star Blues
The 2012 presidential race in Texas might as well have been in Mexico, so little did the Democrats campaign for the state’s 38 electoral votes. Yet during a fund-raising swing on a sweltering July day, President Obama let a political secret out of the bag for his rich donors. “You’re […] Read more »
Hispanics fail to win Hispanic Congressional districts
… Even though a record number of Latinos are serving in the 113th Congress, Hispanic candidates are significantly underperforming in heavily Hispanic districts, particularly compared to other minority groups. Nationwide, just 41 percent of congressional districts (24 of 58) with a Hispanic voting age population (VAP) of at least 30 […] Read more »
Marco Rubio Is Not the Republican Savior
Senator Marco Rubio’s quick ascent in Republican politics, as Jonathan Chait has pointed out, is the product of a convenient, simplistic electoral calculus: Mitt Romney lost partly because his opposition to immigration reform alienated an historic percentage of Latino voters. So who better to lead the GOP than Rubio, a […] Read more »