Archive | November, 2009

Latino voters show massive support for health care reform – including public option

A new poll of Latino/Hispanic registered voters finds widespread consensus about the importance of health care reform and significant support for robust efforts in this direction. The poll, commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, and impreMedia and administered by Latino Decisions, queried 1,000 Hispanic [...]

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How Latinos Will Influence the 2010 Senate Elections

In 2008 the Latino vote proved signficant in a number of electorally important swing states, especially states like New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Florida that have sizable Latino populations.  However, other states with rapidly growing Latino populations, and divided evenly along partisan lines such as North Carolina, Virginia and Indiana, all witnessed Latino voters influencing [...]

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