… In a recent study, we tried to determine what is really behind many white Americans’ support for “getting tough” on illegal immigration. Do they oppose offering legal status to illegal immigrants because they fundamentally dislike Latinos as a group and reject policy reforms that would benefit them? Or do […] Read more »
How Much Will Trump Cost the Republican Party?
… The party uproar over Trump’s charge that Judge Gonzalo Curiel is biased against him because he is “Mexican” dwarfs the unease over any previous Trump comment. … Unease with demographic and cultural change has long rippled through the modern GOP agenda; it helps explain how the party has constructed […] Read more »
Hispanic Voters Will Decide Bernie Sanders’s Fate in California
Three recent surveys from highly rated polling firms (Marist College, Field and Public Policy Institute of California) show Bernie Sanders just 2 points behind Hillary Clinton in California. Clinton is ahead by double digits, however, in other polls, including one that has her up by 18 percentage points. It’s making […] Read more »
Why Polls On Latinos Get it Wrong: Here’s What to Look For
The 2016 presidential election is well under way and understanding “the Latino vote” will be more important than ever. Yet the stories about how Latinos behave politically will often be contradictory, confusing, and outright nonsensical. The media is always eager to publish stories associated with data because numbers bring a […] Read more »
The Real ‘Trump Effect’ for Young Latinos
… The disaffection and distrust evident in so much of the American electorate festers with special ferocity among young Latinos, the fastest growing segment of the American electorate. Looking at them we can see what this campaign is doing to all of us. The laws of physics, if not elections, […] Read more »
Reparations for Slavery in the United States?
Although nearly seven in ten Americans oppose paying reparations to African Americans who are descendants of slaves for the harm and racial discrimination caused by slavery, opinion divides along racial lines according to an Exclusive Point Taken-Marist Poll, commissioned by WGBH Boston for its new late-night, multi-platform PBS debate series […] Read more »