Is black and Latino voter registration threatened or not?
Is black and Latino voter registration threatened or not?
- May 14, 2012
- Research by Marty Wattenberg, political science professor, is mentioned in The Nation May 11, 2012
From The Nation:
On May 4 the Washington Post published what Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo
called an "alarming-and darkly ironic" story stating voter registrations have dropped
for African-Americans and Latino Americans. WaPo reporter Krissah Thompson wrote in
her lead: The number of black and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since
2008, posing a serious challenge to the Obama campaign in an election that could turn
on the participation of minority voters.... The most glaring issue with the Post's
story was that the reporter Thompson used Census Bureau voting data that stopped at
November 2010. University of California, Irvine professor Marty Wattenberg challenged
the Census figures by comparing 2008 and 2012 elections figures in Florida and found
that Latino-American registration increased by 9 percent. For Asian-Americans, the
increase was 14 percent. Further, Wattenberg told Hasen (and confirmed with me by
e-mail) that as recently as 2006, Republicans outnumbered Democrats among Hispanics,
but by 2012 the reverse was true.
For the full story, please visit http://www.thenation.com/blog/167853/black-and-latino-voter-registration....
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