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The Latino Voters Who Drove The 2012 Vote

Which Latinos Drive The 2012 Election?
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Editor, Latino Voices

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 28: Bilingual pamphlets urge people to vote at a rally supporting the New York State Dream Act held at CUNY Baruch College on May 28, 2013 in New York City. Supporters of the act are pushing for the New York Senate to pass the legislation, which was passed by the state Assembly last week. The act would allow undocumented youth who were brought to the U.S. as children and graduate from high school to access New York State-funded tuition for college. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 28: Bilingual pamphlets urge people to vote at a rally supporting the New York State Dream Act held at CUNY Baruch College on May 28, 2013 in New York City. Supporters of the act are pushing for the New York Senate to pass the legislation, which was passed by the state Assembly last week. The act would allow undocumented youth who were brought to the U.S. as children and graduate from high school to access New York State-funded tuition for college. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Naturalized Latino immigrants who arrived in the 1990s, older Latinos, and Puerto Ricans were the 3 groups within the Latino voter demographic whose participation in the 2012 elections did not drop from 2008 – whereas turnout declined in all other groups. This is one of the findings in a new Pew Hispanic report out today, Inside the 2012 Latino electorate.

A record 11.2 million Latinos voted in 2012, a result of the increasing Latino population in the U.S. But the turnout rate – in other words, the percentage of eligible Latino voters who went out and voted – dropped slightly in 2012 to 48 percent, from 49.9 in 2012.

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