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February 4, 2012

Latino Voters Barely Turn Out In Nevada Caucus

By Sara Inés Calderón | Posted at 11:11 pm on February 4

The Nevada State Democratic Party offered up that Latino voters making up only about 5% of the GOP caucus in Nevada today is evidence of the negative effects of the GOP’s extreme rhetoric. In a statement the party said:

At approximately 5% of the total vote according to the latest CNN Exit Polls, Hispanic turnout was especially low in today’s contest – a testament to Romney’s extreme immigration stance from calling the DREAM Act a “hand out” to campaigning with Kris Kobach, the man behind Arizona’s and Alabama’s anti-immigration laws.

 

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    The CNN poll is based on 843 samples. CNN exit polls are notoriously unreliable when it comes to sampling the black and Latino vote. 
    http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#NVREP For example, the 2010 exit poll for the general election showed 30% of Nevada Latinos voted for Sharron Angle, highly implausible given the atrocious anti-immigrant ads she ran.The problem is the design of the poll. National exit polls select a small number of precincts that demographically represent the overall state. However, blacks and Latinos who live in these precincts are not representative samples of blacks and Latinos. More on the flawed polling: http://latinodecisions.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/proving-the-exit-polls-wrong-harry-reid-did-win-over-90-of-the-latino-vote/