Ryan NicolApril 25, 2019
4min432
In 2020, Latinos are set to be the largest minority group in the electorate.
Tag: Latino Decisions
Ryan NicolApril 25, 2019
Mitch PerryOctober 4, 2017
6min293
With Florida’s Cuban population, the state’s Latino vote has generally skewed more conservative than other states with large groups of Hispanics. In the Donald Trump era, new polling shows that’s no longer the case. Taken two weeks ago, a Latino Victory-Latino Decisions poll of 369 Florida Latinos gives only 36 percent support to the president; […]
Mitch PerryNovember 14, 2016
5min267
Among the significant factoids produced by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research from last Tuesday’s election was that Donald Trump actually did better than Mitt Romney when it came to winning the Latino vote. It wasn’t by much, but according to that information, Trump received 29 percent support from Hispanics, better than Romney’s 27 percent in 2012. That seems counterintuitive to some, considering […]
Mitch PerryNovember 5, 2016
11min423
Looking over the thousands of adoring fans who had waited for hours to see him speak, Donald Trump kicked off his 50-minute speech at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa on Saturday morning by comparing his audience to Hillary Clinton’s campaign appearance with two of the biggest celebrities in America on Friday night in Cleveland. “We don’t need Jay Z to fill […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterOctober 5, 2016
6min199
Puerto Rican voters in Florida overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton, according to a new survey. A new poll from the Center for American Progress Action Fund found 74 percent of Puerto Rican voters in the Sunshine State were supporting Clinton. Another 17 percent said they were backing Donald Trump, while 3 percent said they would vote […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 12, 2016
3min158
Good Monday morning to you all. While the U.S. media will be focused intently on Hillary Clinton‘s health, there’s another issue taking place today that deserves close observation — the tentative truce between the warring factions that’s supposed to happen in Syria tonight at sundown. The truce was announced last last week between Russia and the U.S., and […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 9, 2016
4min292
Donald Trump is doing better with the Latino vote in Florida than he is nationally, according to a new poll released on Friday. Hillary Clinton leads Trump, 62* percent to 27 percent in the Sunshine State, according to a new poll of 400 Latino Floridians taken by the group Latino Decisions late last month. Of the […]
Mitch PerryMay 13, 2016
4min366
“Is there an issue?” asked Republican Party of Florida Community Engagement Chairman Michael Barnett after reciting Donald Trump’s declaration that he wants Mexico to build a security wall on the U.S. Southern border. “Apparently, there’s an issue.” Yes, there’s an issue. A survey conducted by the political opinion research group Latino Decisions last month shows 73 percent of Florida Latinos […]
Mitch PerryApril 25, 2016
4min368
Although Donald Trump has said that “the Hispanics love me,” a poll taken of 400 registered Florida Latinos that was released last week shows that’s not the case. A survey by the political opinion research group Latino Decisions shows that 73 percent of Florida Latinos view the GOP presidential front-runner as “very unfavorably.” An additional 11 […]
Mitch PerryOctober 27, 2015
2min518
There are varying polls indicating how much of the Latino vote that the Republican nominee for president must attract to win the White House in 2016. Research performed this summer by America’s Voice, a leading immigration advocacy group, determined that the GOP would need to get 47 percent of the Hispanic vote to be competitive in […]