Latino Stars Make It Interesting in Texas
Two Latinos in Texas took center stage in national party politics this Tuesday. The day began a with a press release announcing San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will deliver the keynote address at the...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s Magic Number
Mitt Romney’s campaign has identified 38% as the “magic number” of Latino voters they need to secure victory over President Obama in the November election. This seems rather ambitious; John McCain...
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Republicans fail to improve their image among Latinos, but have opportunity...
The latest impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll released today revealed a continued trend in support for President Obama, and increased dissatisfaction with Republican outreach towards Latino...
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Texas Immigration Politics: Enforcement First, Outreach Later?
Earlier this week a bipartisan group of eight senators announced their preliminary plans for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) legislation. Neither senator from Texas is among the coalition of...
View ArticleNew Poll: Immigration policy stance directly tied to winning the Latino vote
A new Latino Decisions poll finds that Latino voters are paying very close attention to the immigration debate in Congress and that a candidate’s stance on immigration policy will directly effect how...
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Immigration Reform: GOP’s big chance to deliver on Latino outreach
Recent elections demonstrate that immigration is a mobilizing issue for Latino voters. We can be sure that Congressional action, or inaction, on the current comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill...
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The Impact of Congressional CIR Rhetoric and Action on Latino Voters
A new poll from America’s Voice and Latino Decisions shows immigration policy action and rhetoric weighs heavily in on Latino voters as they evaluate elected officials, parties, and their vote choices....
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Latino non-citizens are neither Democrats nor Republicans
It is well documented that anti-Latino rhetoric and policies by Republican candidates since the mid-1990s led Latino voters to abandon the GOP in favor of the Democratic Party (Bowler and Segura 2012)....
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New Poll: Latino voters strongly reject anti-immigrant posturing from House...
New polling results released today show clear evidence that Latino voters now believe that the anti-immigrant voices in the House are not isolated individuals but that many Republicans in Congress hold...
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Message Not Received: House Republicans and Immigration Reform
As the House of Representatives moves towards its August recess having made little to no progress on immigration reform, the House Republican Conference is equipping its members with a document...
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Anti-Immigrant Politics and Lessons for the GOP from California
According to polling data from the Field Poll, after winning the presidential election in 1980, California native Ronald Reagan raised his share of the Latino vote from 35 percent to 45 percent in 1984...
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AFL-CIO immigration ads impact on Latino voter opinions
A new survey by Latino Decisions finds that Latino registered voters who saw recent immigration advertisements run by the AFL-CIO were significantly more likely to rate immigration as a critical issue,...
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Is the GOP backpedaling on the “GOP”?
A year ago this month, the Republican National Committee released its post-2012 election political autopsy report: the “Growth & Opportunity Project.” The “GOP”—a quite clever acronym, indeed—was...
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Immigration Legislation or Executive Action Will Shape Latino Vote
Last summer, in the wake of the US Senate’s passage of S. 744, the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” Latino Decisions, in concert with America’s Voice,...
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Mass deportations are alienating young Latino voters from the Democratic Party
The United States government has been deporting large numbers of undocumented migrants as of late (see Figure 1 below), and the majority of them are Latino. In addition to negatively affecting the...
View ArticleDemocrats Missing Opportunities in Top Tier Latino Influence House Districts
Recent polling conducted by Latino Decisions continues to find that comprehensive immigration reform is an animating issue for Latino voters and if immigration reform does not happen this year, most...
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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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