{"id":13423,"date":"2023-08-08T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=13423"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:10:45","slug":"super-tuesday-results-show-how-latino-voters-are-shaping-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=13423","title":{"rendered":"Super Tuesday results show how Latino voters are shaping the election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Rey Junco <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Texas was the second-biggest prize on Super Tuesday, and Joe Biden won the state\u2019s primary with 33.7% of the vote<\/a>.\n However, the state\u2019s Latino vote went to Bernie Sanders: 45% for \nSanders and 24% for Biden. While 44% of all Texas Democrat primary \nvoters are white, 31% are Latino<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The split between Biden and Sanders was even greater among Latinos<\/a>\n aged 18 to 29, who preferred Sanders over Biden, 66% versus 10%, and \nwho made up a larger share of voters than young white Texans: 8% versus \n5%. Since Biden appears to have won the state by fewer than 4 percentage\n points, higher participation from Latino youth could have changed the \nresults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, political observers have been talking about the power of Latino voters to reshape American politics<\/a>. They certainly have the potential: Census data show Latinos make up 13% \u2013 and growing<\/a> \u2013 of the voting-age population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2018 midterms, Americans got a glimpse of how young Latinos are already influencing elections. Analyses by CIRCLE<\/a> \u2013 the research group that I am a part of \u2013 found that Texas counties with higher youth and Latino populations were much more likely to vote for Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/a> than low-youth, low-Latino counties. These dynamics may make Texas a battleground state in the near future<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as with all young voters, engaging Latino youth in Texas and\n around the country depends on sustained outreach. That has been a \nchallenge: Our pre-primary poll of young voters in Texas<\/a>\n found that Texas Latinos under age 40 were less likely than non-Latinos\n to have been contacted by a campaign or organization. Seventy-five \npercent of Latinos had not been contacted, compared to 60% of \nnon-Latinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps as a result, Latinos were less likely to know key voting information. Though Texas\u2019s primary allows any registered voter to vote as either a Republican or a Democrat, two-thirds of Latinos thought they had to be registered with a party to participate or said they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rey Junco<\/a> is the Director of Research at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts Univ<\/em>ersity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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