Gabriel R. Sanchez, Ph.D., Edward D. Vargas, Ph.D. MPH, Jordin C. Tafoya, MA With less than a week from election day, the stark differences in policy priorities and approaches between Democrats and Republicans are becoming crystal clear from voters. Nowhere is this more evident than in health care policy. Just this week, GOP House Speaker
In the Univision town hall forum a few weeks ago, Donald Trump was asked by a Latino Republican about his support for the January 6, 2021 protest-turned-insurrection. In his response, Trump said it was a day of love, and that there were many patriotic Americans involved. The reality is that thousands of Trump supporters criminally
Lately, the media has been obsessed with highlighting shifts in voter favorability among Latino men, but with Election Day now just days away, Harris still heads into early voting days with 60% support among Latino voters. The driver of this support: Latina women. Latinas, a critical demographic that has shown strong and consistent support for
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.
Throughout the campaign, pundits and pollsters have been stressing the importance of economic issues as top policy priorities for voters. Our own polling, the 2024 Entravision/AltaMed weekly tracking poll, also confirms that the top three issues for Latinos are cost of living/inflation, jobs and the economy, and housing costs. Economic concerns today are as important
As the Democratic National Convention opens tonight in Chicago, Latino enthusiasm for the soon-to-be Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has boosted Democrats’ chances of retaining the White House in November. Since joining the race, Harris has reaped record donations and re-energized voters who reported lower rates of enthusiasm before President Joe Biden left the race. A
Latino support has coalesced behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and that support looks likely to expand. In a new survey of Latinos across seven battleground states by SOMOS and BSP Research, Harris enjoys an initial +18 point advantage to Trump in a 2-way matchup (55-37); support for her increased 6 points during the
Pundits, data nerds, and fellow pollsters have noted the rapid changes in the partisan attachments of Latino voters. Story after story suggests that a fundamental transformation has occurred in Latino political attitudes and partisan preferences. A counter theory is that many “mainstream” polls have small and unrepresentative samples of Latinos and should not be read
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