Only 13% of Hispanic population voted in 2006

“After hundreds of thousands of Hispanics across the United States marched for immigration law reform on May 1, 2006, the rallying cry in the Hispanic community quickly became “Today we march, tomorrow we vote.”

Indeed, an additional 800,000 Hispanics went to the polls during Novembers 2006 midterm elections compared to four years earlier, according to a study released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. But Latinos represented nearly half the total population growth in the United States between 2002 and 2006, the study said.”

View the Pew Hispanic Report entitled: The Latino Electorate: An Analysis of the 2006 Election PDF

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