The party must devote resources to Latino mobilization and challenge barriers to their political participation
Since the 1990s, as an election day approaches, pundits, party leaders and candidates for office seem to discover “Latino voters” anew. The discussions that emerge are so predictable that one could easily confuse the date of the commentary or press releases by two or four years.
These discussions revolve around two contradictory narratives: the first is that Latinos votes will not make a difference in an election. The second is that Latinos will be determinative in the result. Both are overly simplistic, and discussions of the expected role of the Latino vote in the November midterms are no different.
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