- A historic number – 75 percent of Latinos – voted for Obama’s re-election, according to Latino Decisions exit polls, the highest Latino support for any presidential candidate in the nation’s history.
- Latino voters were key in delivering battleground states.
- ”Many Latinos we polled were nervous over the Ryan budget and its proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid,” Barreto says. [emphasis added: comment WTF? It was Obamacare that did that.]
- ”The enthusiasm of Latino voters in this election reflects not only support for Obama and his policies, but dislike for the policies of Romney and the GOP,” says Cristina Beltran, a professor of cultural and social analysis at New York University.[emphasis added]
This factor was completely overlooked. In fact, I got the impression that Hispanics didn't like Obama. This support for Obama seems like it came completely out of nowhere. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
If all of this is true as the article claims, this is bad news for Republicans in the years ahead.
I get the feeling that it is a racial thing. Not much you can do about that. That battle has already been lost.
Update:
I know I saw something about the Asian vote as well. But I couldn't find it. So, I googled Asian vote and came up with this. Asians tend to vote Democrat and this article says that they are overlooked. It seems that this is a recurring theme.
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