Seventy percent of Californians who have registered to vote since 1990 are Latino, providing a growing benefit to Democrats and posing a threat to Republicans, according to a new voting report.

“The Field Poll on election trends also said that there is partisan split between coastal and inland counties that favors Democrats but is slowly shifting in favor of the GOP as the more Republican inland population grows.

“It is a challenge and an uphill battle” for Republicans to get on top of these trends sooner rather than later, acknowledged Assemblyman John J. Benoit, R-Palm Desert….”

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