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Related: About this forumAmong Latinos, Hillary Clinton leads @GovWalker by 69%-20% - a bigger gap even than Pres. Obama's e
Daniel Bice @DanielBice 7m7 minutes ago
Among Latinos, Hillary Clinton leads @GovWalker by 69%-20% - a bigger gap even than Pres. Obama's edge over Romney: http://wpo.st/gEtQ0
The GOP problem with Latinos goes much deeper than Donald Trumps rhetoric
By Greg Sargent July 16 at 3:24 PM
Theres a lot of political chatter today about a remarkable new poll of 1,400 Hispanic voters. Not surprisingly, it shows widespread Latino awareness and disapproval of Donald Trump and his anti-immigrant outbursts.
But the real news in the poll is that it vividly illustrates that the GOP problem with Latinos runs a lot deeper than Trumps headline-grabbing rhetoric: Republicans for now, anyway are in a position comparable to where they were in 2012, when Mitt Romney and his self-deportation stances suffered record losses among those voters.
A few choice findings from the survey, which was conducted by Bendixen & Amandi International with the Tarrance Group:
Only 36 percent of Latinos polled view the GOP favorably; by contrast, 68 percent view the Democratic Party favorably............
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Among Latinos, Hillary Clinton leads @GovWalker by 69%-20% - a bigger gap even than Pres. Obama's e (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2015
OP
In 2008 Obama actaully carried voters making over $250,000 by a small margin
bluestateguy
Jul 2015
#9
Even back to 2008, Hillary was always stronger with Latinos. They came around in the GE, but...
Tarheel_Dem
Jul 2015
#3
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)1. Bible-clutching, gun-toting blue collar whites are in decline.
From the link:
In addition, the group with which the GOP does bestwhites without college degreesis the only one poised to shrink in 2016. President Obama won just 36 percent of these voters in 2012, while 42 percent of white voters with college degrees pulled the lever for him. But if the electorate changes in line with census estimates, the slice of college-educated whites will grow by 1 point, to 37 percent of all voters, while the portion of whites without degrees will shrink 3 points, to just 33 percent of the total. In other words, the GOP doesn't just have a growing problem with nonwhites; it has a shrinkage problem as well, as conservative white seniors are supplanted by college-educated millennials with different cultural attitudes.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)9. In 2008 Obama actaully carried voters making over $250,000 by a small margin
That support dialed back a little in 2012.
Hillary can win that demographic too.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. 20%, really, damn
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)6. Well, Rubio type is probably the 20%
Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)3. Even back to 2008, Hillary was always stronger with Latinos. They came around in the GE, but...
the majority stuck with her till the end.
Among Latinos polled, Clinton leads Scott Walker by 69-20; she leads Marco Rubio by 66-25; and she leads Jeb Bush by 64-27. As Dan Balz and Peyton Craighill aptly note, that is in the same kind of territory as Obamas 71-27 advantage over Romney among these voters in 2012.
As Charlie Cook and David Wasserman recently noted, a Republican still very well could win without a real turnaround among Latinos, by outperforming among a range of demographic groups. But that seems like a big gamble, particularly since the Latino share of the vote is only going to grow 2016, and the most important of the GOPs core constituencies, blue collar whites, is only going to shrink.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)7. Middle Eastern and orientals went for Democrats in Texas also.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)15. Yes, hoping for
the same again.
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)4. That is strong
Back in 2008 in Texas, Hillary Clinton was very very strong in the Hispanic community
sheshe2
(83,846 posts)5. Kick & Rec!
Thank you riversedge.
Response to riversedge (Original post)
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OKNancy
(41,832 posts)11. read the post again
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)12. thx,,,, nt
shenmue
(38,506 posts)10. Yes!
okasha
(11,573 posts)13. Anda, Hillary! Anda, anda!
Numbers like these will deliver Texas in the general.
Cha
(297,497 posts)14. Great! Hillary has a big Tent!