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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Thought I saw exits polls of 33% Hispanic males voted for Trump?
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Sounds about right. The high point for Hispanic Democratic Presidential vote on a percentage basis was Obama 2012 not Clinton 2016, but then Obama had a higher percentage overall, too. But Hispanic turnout was up (not quite a surge but up) and the Democratic vote from Hispanics was going deeper down the ballot. Republicans still get a lot more Hispanic than African American votes (and have some very high profile elected Republicans who are Hispanic), but that is changing. On Asians, I think it's changing even faster.
The polling post-election says there's been a lot of movement since. Generic congressionals show very high asian and hispanic support for Dems today. That's what I mean by taking a nose dive in the last year - since the election.
And last night -- you had to be white to not realize what a fucking disaster that speech is for Republicans in the midterms. The combination of vitriol toward minorities and utter ignorance is going to kill them among minorities, and among college educated of all colors. In a closely divided country, a relatively modest increase in voting enthusiasm by minorities wins Dems a swath of seats mostly in the south and southwest and a slight change in voting patterns in educated voters gets them another swath on the Eastern seaboard, especially in Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey, as well as those Orange County seats.
