The Sleeping Giant: Latino Voters From: diversityinc.com
Posted on: July 13th, 2008
The Latino vote is a force to be reckoned with, even during nonpresidential elections, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Out of the 17 million Latinos living in this country who are eligible to vote, as many as 5.6 million showed up to the polls in 2006, up 18 percent from 2002. Meanwhile, voter turnout for whites that year was up only 7 percent from 2002; for Blacks, it was 5 percent. What’s surprising about these figures is that, typically, voter turnout is lower for congressional elections. So why did the Latinos hit the polls in such big numbers?”*
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Filed Under: Commentary, Election 2008, Politics
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