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Why the Latino Vote Didn't Save Hillary
 h/t InstapunditAs someone who had, just 24 hours earlier, asserted that Latino voters would turn out in droves for Hillary Clinton and help save the republic from Donald Trump, I spent Election Night with huevos rancheros on my face. I was wrong. Actually, I was right but I was wrong. ...Latinos did throw most of their support to Clinton--about 71 percent, according to CNN. ...Given the bad blood between Trump and Latinos, one of the biggest surprises on Election Night was that so many Latinos ended up voting for their tormentor. According to CNN’s exit polls, about 27 percent of Latinos voted for Trump. Exit polls from The New York Times put the figure at 29 percent. ...To understand the concept of "Latinos for Trump," the first thing you have to do is to accept that Latino voters aren’t monolithic, one-dimensional, or single-issue oriented. Like the Boston Irish of the 20th century, some of us may define ourselves first by our ethnicity while others just see ourselves as Americans. Don't know about you, but I'm shocked. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-10 |
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