… The idea of the Cuban American monolith, the notion that the 2 million immigrants and their offspring constitute a single-issue ramrod that for a half-century has forced Washington into a hard line against the Castro brothers’ regime, is crumbling in the classic, perhaps inevitable, way: Time is turning immigrants […] Read more »
Rubio’s Standing With Latino Voters
With Senator Marco Rubio’s imminent announcement that he will run for the 2016 Republican Party nomination, we take a look at his standing with Latino voters since his rise to national prominence in his 2010 campaign for the U.S. Senate. Based on these trends, we find no evidence that Rubio’s […] Read more »
Hispanics Voice Overwhelming Support for Obama’s Actions on Immigration
In a measure of the challenge Republicans could face with Hispanic voters next year, President Obama’s executive action to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants drew significant support from all elements of that community in a new opinion survey this week. The survey, co-sponsored by MSNBC and Telemundo and conducted by […] Read more »
Support for the Affordable Care Act Breaks Down Along Racial Lines
Race remains an impenetrable dividing line in attitudes about the Affordable Care Act five years after President Obama signed it into law. With Obama celebrating the law’s fifth anniversary last week—and House and Senate Republicans marking the occasion by voting again to repeal it—polls show that whites remain much more […] Read more »
Rubio Pollster: GOP Must Top 40% with Latinos to Win White House in 2016
So much for baby steps. Republicans widely acknowledge that in order to take back the White House in 2016, they must make steady gains in winning back Latino voters, only 27 percent of whom supported Mitt Romney in 2012. But Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster who will work for […] Read more »
Is amnesty really that bad for GOP voting base?
The recent Homeland Security funding fight resurfaced Republicans’ continued aversion to regularization for illegal immigrants. Presumably, among their calculations is the notion that allowing some of the estimated eleven million individuals that are living in the US illegally to gain voting rights would result in electoral gains for Democrats. Worse […] Read more »