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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Poll: Having Hispanic Running Mate Won't Help Much with Latino Voters

As the vice presidential rumor mill heats up, politicians and pundits have thrown out names like Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez as possible Democratic running mates.

On the Republican side, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and her Nevada counterpart, Brian Sandoval, have both been bandied as potential additions to a ticket topped by presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

The thinking is that a Latino running mate could help sway Hispanic voters – a record 27 million of whom are eligible to vote in 2016.

A new poll released Friday by Fox News Latino, however, puts that thinking into question. Results of the poll have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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2 comments:

  1. Let me state this yet again ! Hispanics & Latinos are two separate set of peoples - NOT to be used interchangeably !

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  2. Trump has enough support.

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