When discussing Latino voters, one question I often receive references Latino Catholicism. The question is basically: since Latinos are Catholics, and Catholics are anti-abortion, wouldn’t that make Latino Catholics more conservative and Republican? No. This logic applies strongly to white voters but is far less descriptive of the Latino social setting. Just under half of
The November elections in New Jersey, Virginia, New York, and California were a significant win for Democrats in the wake of the 2024 losses, and represented a shift in Latino voting back towards their historic norms and away from President Trump and the GOP. In New Jersey, the shift wiped away the GOP drift that
Well, it’s “silly season” again–that time in each electoral cycle when pollsters release results that produce panic on one side, jubilation on another, based on non-credible results. On October 5, Republican pollster Rasmussen released an unweighted, English-only, small-sample Latino vote result that implausibly claimed Trump winning 62% of the Latino vote. This is not true.
