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03/18/2024 11:24:59 pm

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Democrats Are Losing Support From Latinos, Pew Survey Says

The Democratic Party is still popular among the Latino voters, but a new study from Pew Research Center has revealed that such support is already weakening as the supporters of the party have already decreased by eight percent.

The report says that only 57 percent of the registered of registered Latino voters said that they support the Democrat Party candidates for the upcoming midterm elections that will be held on November four.

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The Pew survey shows a drastic dropped from its 2010 study that registered 65 percent of the Latino voters who supported Democratic Party candidates.

Meanwhile, support for Republican candidates increased to six percent since in 2010. In 2010, Latino support was only at 22 percent, while this year it is at 28 percent.

Also, part of the survey shows that Latino voters this year registered lesser percentage whether they identify with the Democrats. Back in 2012, 61 percent of Latinos felt the Democratic Party has concern for them, but now has dropped to 50 percent. More significantly, Latinos, who consider themselves as Democrats, have dropped from 70 percent to 63 percent this year.

Although the survey shows the Democrats are losing a significant number of Hispanic voters, the Republicans did not gain significant Latin votes. Only 10 percent of Latinos believe that the Republican Party has concern for them, which did not move at all in comparison to the 2012 survey.

The Pew Research survey reflects Latinos' disappointment regarding immigration issues that are not being tackled by the Barack Obama regime.

The House failed to take up on the bipartisan immigration reform bill back in 2013 that President Obama promised to resolve. However, Obama announced last September that his administration would delay its passage and would deal with it after the midterm elections.

The survey had a sample population of 1,520 Latinos including 733 registered voters and according to almost half of the register voters, a candidate's position regarding the immigration reform is not a dealbreaker.

Hispanic voters say they are looking into the other key issues the candidates might tackle once they get elected into office. For Hispanics, education, economy and health care are primary issues, while immigration came fourth and the conflict in the Middle East closed the top five.

Another survey showing published by Harvard University's Institute of Politics found out that Americans aged 18 to 29 will be voting but 51 percent of the surveyed population prefers a Republican-run Congress as opposed to the 47 percent wanting Democrats to run the house.

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