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Latino Decisions Tracking Poll Wave 7: Obama 72% Romney 20%

Obama continues to gain in the Latino Decisions weekly tracking poll.  One caveat is that the vast majority of interviews were held before the debate.

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Latino Decisions Tracking Poll Wave 8: Obama 67% Romney 23%

In the first Latino Decisions tracking poll taken entirely after the first presidential debate, it's Obama 67%, Romney 23%.

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Why the Latino vote may tilt Virginia blue in 201

by Latino Decisions on 10/16/2012According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls in Virginia, Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 48.4 to 47.6, a gap of less than 1%.  In the race for U.S. Senate the...

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Latino voters highly engaged in presidential election, support for Obama rises

Cross-Posted at Latino Decisions and Latino Vote Matters: The impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll latest results reveal a high level of interest and engagement by Latino voters in the upcoming...

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Why Pollsters Missed the Latino Vote --€“ 2012 Edition

Cross-Posted at Latino Decisionsand Latino Vote Matters: In 1998 Harry Pachon and Rudy de la Garza wrote a report for the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute titled “Why Pollsters Missed the Latino Vote...

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LD Vote Predict Indicates Latinos Voters Will Support Obama Over Romney by 3...

Cross-posted at Latino Vote Matters and Latino DecisionsWhile President Obama’s support among Latino voters has fallen slightly from its peak prior to the first debate (week 6 of the tracking poll),...

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Targeting Latino Voters in Campaign Communications: New Evidence and Insights

Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States at 16.5 percent of the population and are one of the most sought after groups of voters in swing areas across the country. However,...

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Thoughts on the Latino vote

If for example you looked at today's release of The Purple Poll of 12 swing states - which included NM, CO, NV and FL -  their sample included only 7% Latino voters.I have been exploring the subject of...

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Keeping an eye on the Latino vote

If as I do you follow Latino Decisions, you would yesterday have found out that 8 percent of Latinos have already voted early, enthusiasm up again in final week.   There are some important takeaways in...

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8 percent of Latinos have already voted early, enthusiasm up again in final week

The latest impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll shows that Latinos are more enthusiastic and more likely to vote than ten weeks ago when the initial poll was fielded.  Forty-five percent of Latino...

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Latinos’ Support for Obama Solid in Florida

With the election less than two weeks away there has been a great deal of speculation about the Latino community’s support for President Obama, particularly in Florida. Most recently, an Interactive...

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Latino Decisions: Latinos’ Support for Obama Solid in Florida

This post at the Latino Decisions blog drills down into the Florida International University robo-poll from earlier this month which claimed that Florida Latinos were breaking for Obama by only  50.7%...

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The Context of Immigration Policy in New Mexico Reflects National Trends

The Latino electorate continues to be one of the most intriguing story lines of the 2012 election cycle, with the role of immigration policy in Latino voting behavior dominating discussions of the...

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How the Exit Polls Misrepresent Latino Voters, and Badly

Did you know that, despite running exceedingly racialized anti-Latino advertisements in Nevada’s Senate race, Sharon Angle got 30% of the Latino vote? Jan Brewer also did well, attracting an...

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Predict election outcome through Latino Decisions/America’s Voice Interactive...

We have conducted extensive analysis throughout the campaign season focused on the Latino electorate and our blogs have repeatedly argued that Latino Voters will be a major force in deciding who will...

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If you want to explore impact of Latino vote

on a state by state basis, you might find this map from Latino Decisions somewhat useful.You can click on the state to get details. The data for predicting the top line outcome of the state may be...

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Predicting the Latino vote

By now, most denizens of this site realize that most polls, both national and state, do not accurately include Latinos in their models.  For one things, Latinos heavily rely upon cell phones, and those...

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Final impreMedia-LD tracking poll: if Latino vote is high, Obama will carry 4...

impreMedia & Latino Decisions today released the last in a series of 11 weekly tracking polls with results suggesting President Obama is poised to win a record high share of the Latino vote, and in...

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LD Vote Predict final model: Obama 72.9 vs. Romney 27.1

Final LD Vote and Turnout Predict Projections: Record-breaking Turnout and Lopsided Support for Obama among LatinosOver the final several weeks of polling (Figure 1), the LD Vote Predict estimates for...

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Economy and immigration are top issues to Latino voters in 2012

The ImpreMedia-Latino Decisions Election Eve Poll of 5,600 Latino voters has indicated that the Economy/Jobs and Immigration were the most important issues to Latino voters in 2012. As indicated in the...

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