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The biggest myth “is that there is a monolithic vote. And I think this election has helped bring him down,” says Matt Barreto, co-founder of pollster Latino Decisions, who worked on polls with President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign, told AFP.
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“You have to cover Latinos depending on where they are,” says Chris Zepeda-Millán, an associate professor in UCLA’s public policy department. This year, the Trump campaign did a better job of turning out conservative-leaning Cuban Americans in Florida, through ad “micro-targeting” and other means, says Professor Zepeda Millán. That helped push President Trump to victory…
According to Matt Barreto, a political science professor at UCLA, sample sizes for Latinos tend to be too small to draw conclusions about their voting preferences.
In Arizona, where Democrats aggressively courted Latino voters, Biden’s win was widely attributed to Latino enthusiasm in Maricopa County, where Biden won more than three-quarters of the vote in Latino-heavy precincts, according to the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative.
“It’s true that some people who are not white Protestant Anglo Saxon have names that make it difficult for people who don’t have the cultural or linguistic competency necessary to identify that they are in fact who they say they are,” Sonja Diaz said. “Ultimately, this is not an issue of voter fraud, but this…
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