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Infographic: GOP has a lot to win or lose on immigration reform
A new survey conducted by the Center for American Progress and Latino Decisions finds Republicans have a lot to win by addressing immigration reform, and a lot to lose by ignoring it. Infographic...
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Latino Voters in Colorado: Electoral Influence and Immigration Politics
Home to one of the fastest growing Latino electorates in the country, Colorado is set to steal the national spotlight in House, Senate and Gubernatorial races this November with immigration playing a...
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New Poll: Latino Voter Views on President Obama Using His Executive Authority...
New polling of Latino voters conducted by Latino Decisions for the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows that Democrats stand to gain from the president using his broad executive authority to...
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Democrats and the Politics of Executive Action on Immigration
Reports that the House Republican leadership will not consider immigration legislation during the present Congress once again raises the prospects that President Obama will take executive action on...
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Executive Action on Immigration and Democratic House Incumbents 2014 Prospects
In a prior post, I drew on new polling conducted by Latino Decisions on behalf of the Center for American Progress Action Fund examining Latino voters’ attitudes towards executive action on immigration...
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HR 5230 and HR 5272: Making a Bad Situation Worse and What It Means for...
Last Friday, after months of foot-dragging and increasingly bizarre explanations to justify their inaction, Republican congressional leaders finally allowed legislation addressing immigration policy to...
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Reviewing the Evidence Part 2: CIR Failure and Political Fallout
President Obama’s comments to the press yesterday provided a strong signal that changes to immigration administration and enforcement via executive actions are imminent. It is important to remember...
View ArticleLD column at NoticiasUnivision.com: Moment of Truth for Obama & Democrats
The latest Latino Decisions column published on the Univision television network news website Noticias.Univision.com, written by Senior Strategist David R. Ayón highlights the mounting chorus of...
View ArticlePaying for an Unkept Promise: LD Column on Noticias.Univision.com
The latest Latino Decisions column by David R. Ayón published on the Univision news website this week examines how Latino voters, leaders, and organizations might respond to President Obama’s decision...
View ArticleSchaller’s new book on the dynamics of the contemporary GOP: The Stronghold
Professor Thomas Schaller’s new book, The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House, published this week by Yale University Press, is a timely and provocative study...
View ArticleFreedom Summit Signals to the Latino Electorate
What is the meaning of this past weekend’s Freedom Summit for Latino voters and their options in the 2016 Republican primaries and general election? The answer to this question necessarily begins with...
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Latino Influence & the Politics of Immigration in the 2014 U.S. Senate Elections
To date, much of the evidence suggestive of Latino electoral influence has focused on statewide races, particularly presidential elections in swing states such as Florida, Colorado, and Nevada....
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Latino Influence in the 2014 House Elections: Part I
During the 2014 election cycle Latino Decisions identified US House districts where Latino voters were positioned to be influential. Specifically, we considered districts where the 2010 Latino voting...
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Latino Influence in the 2014 House Elections: Part II
In a prior post I examined what occurred in the 24 Republican held tier one and tier two Latino Influence House Districts during the 2014 elections. My analysis revealed that while there were a number...
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So Goes Colorado…
In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times Mark Barabak examined the importance of the Mountain West, particularly Colorado, to Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories. Echoing many of the themes...
View ArticleWelcome to “The New Nevada”
The June 1st conclusion to the 78th Session of the Nevada Legislature brought to the end one of the most improbable and significant sessions in the state’s history. Improbable in that a state under...
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The Latino Threshold to Win in 2016
In 2012, polling by Latino Decisions found that Mitt Romney won the support of just 23 percent of Latino voters. In 2016, the Republican presidential candidate will need twice that support to win the...
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New Poll: Hostile Talk Hurts GOP with Latino Voters
Today impreMedia and Latino Decisions released new polling results from our survey of Latino voters in battleground states. The survey of 424 registered Latino voters shows that hostile rhetoric from...
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The Policy Priorities of Latino Voters in Battleground States
Earlier today, Latino Victory Project and Latino Decisions released the results of a poll examining the issue positions and policy priorities of Latino voters living in a dozen battleground states....
View ArticleTexas-Sized Opportunities, Part 3B
Is Texas a purple state now, and if not, how soon will it be? Continuing this series investigating the Lone Star State’s evolving partisanship, in this post I consider whether Texas could be...
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