Archive | October, 2011

Latinos’ Attitudes Toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

By Gabriel R. Sanchez, PhD, Jillian Medeiros, PhD, Sam Howarth, PhD [Full Report Available Here]              [Results from Non-Voter Sample of October Poll Posted Here] Executive Summary There has been much debate related to health care reform both before President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law, and after its historic [...]

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Republican candidates do not resonate with Latinos

By Pilar Marrero – Pilar.marrero@laopinion.com  | 2011-10-17 Results From Political Content of October Poll Posted Here LOS ANGELES, CA. – Although Latino voters have expressed some disappointment with President Obama in the last few months, none of the Republican presidential candidates has been able to captivate or attract the attention of Latinos until now. In [...]

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Latino Decisions to release new poll results today 12pm/3pm

On Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:00 pacific / 3:00PM eastern impreMedia and Latino Decisions will be conducting a press webinar to report results from its October national tracking poll on Latino registered voters with extended questions related to Latino opinions on GOP candidates, the upcoming 2012 presidential elections, President Obama’s jobs bill, and health [...]

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Latinos support health care reform but not mandate

By Pilar Marrero– Pilar.marrero@laopinion.com  | 2011-10-13 New Poll Results Posted Here LOS ANGELES, CA. – Latino voters have a complicated relationship with the health care reform law approved in March 2010. On the one hand, they support the majority of its provisions and oppose its repeal. But just like other voters, they are against the [...]

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Latino Decisions and impreMedia to release new poll on Health Care Policy

Latino Decisions and impreMedia in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico will be releasing data from a new survey focused on the Latino electorate’s attitudes and experiences with health care policy on Thursday, October 13, 2011. The October survey is the fifth of [...]

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A Lighter Shade of Brown? : Latino Racial Identification Stabilizes Declining U.S. White Population

As more trends from the recently conducted 2010 Census become available, Latinos are once again the focus of attention. A report from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the Hispanic/Latino population increased by 15.2 million over the last decade and accounted for more than half of the total U.S. population growth of 27.3 million. This [...]

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