the Latino daily – Your Monday morning brief
MONDAY, April 4, 2016
Good morning Taquistas!
We start the week with mostly political news from across the nation. It’s April of a presidential election year after all.
I’ve got some interesting numbers for you from the recent USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. The California primary is still two months away and in elections past, despite the large number of delegates at stake, it’s ranked as an afterthought in the nomination outcome because the voting is too late to make a difference. This year, though, is not like others. On both the Republican and Democratic sides the races could well stretch all the way to the conventions. Suddenly California matters. And in California, Latinos matter.
So with that in mind, we’ll begin the news with . . .
►Monday’s numbers
55 – The percentage of Latino voters in California with an income of less than $55,000 who support Hillary Clinton.
33 – The percentage of Latino voters in California with an income of less than $55,000 who support Bernie Sanders.
12 – The point differential with Sanders leading Clinton among California white voters with an income of less than $55,000.
60 – The percentage of white voters in California who disapprove of Donald Trump’s positions on undocumented immigration.
60 – The percentage of white voters in California who favor a path to citizenship for the undocumented.
28 – The percentage of Latinos among California’s eligible voters.
46 – The percentage of the California Latino population that is eligible to vote.
36 – The percentage of California eligible Latino voters between the ages of 18 – 29.
82 – The percentage of California eligible Latino voters who are of Mexican origin.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
►Yes, but not before Wisconsin . . .
. . . where primary voters go to the polls tomorrow.
Here’re Wisconsin Latino voters in a few bullet points*:
* Latino population – 6.2%
* Eligible Latino voters – 135,000/3.2 percent
* Percentage of Latino population eligible to vote – 38.1
►Two paragraphs that summarize the Wisconsin primary outcome predictions
In January, Clinton would have gotten two more delegates than Sanders. If this poll holds, Sanders will now get four more than Clinton — slicing his pledged delegate deficit from 263 all the way down to . . . READ MORE
[Photo courtesy of Sacramento Bee]
