Today the Pew Hispanic Center released a new report on Hispanics and the 2008 elections. Click here for the report: http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/83.pdf.
From their advisory: ’The gains that the Republican Party had been making this decade in partisan affiliation among Latinos have dissipated in the past year, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center survey of Latino registered voters. The Democratic-over-Republican partisan affiliation edge (identifiers and leaners included), which had been 33 percentage points in 1999, then fell to 21 percentage points by 2006, is now back up to 34 percentage points. The report also examines the potential of Hispanics to be a swing voting block in the 2008 election. Though they make up only a relatively small share of the nationwide electorate, Hispanics comprise a larger share of voters in four of the six ‘swing states’ that President Bush carried by margins of five percentage points or fewer in 2004 – New Mexico, Florida, Nevada and Colorado. The report presents state-by-state data on the most recent eligibility and turnout trends of the Latino electorate.’
I know many of us will be reading the report carefully as we get ready to watch the Republican presidential debate this Sunday on Univision.
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