Latinos want to see more of their own in office after November midterms

*Good article, lay’s out the political work to be done: elect more Latinas, elect more Latinos in non-Latino majority districts, and persuade young Latinos to go to the polls on election day. VL

By 

SAN DIEGO — Almost anyone running for office wants the Latino vote. But what Latino voters want is more Latinos in office.

Despite gains in every election cycle, there is a yawning gap between the demographic power of the 53 million Latinos in the U.S. and their political clout.

That’s why getting more Latinos elected in the November midterm elections looms large on the agenda here at the 31st annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO). On Thursday, the organization released its latest count of Latinos in office: 6,084 nationwide, including 334 at the federal and state levels. That’s a 25 percent increase in 10 years, but not a dramatic change from the previous year.

Click HERE to read the full story.

[Photoby Peter Dutton/Flickr]

Subscribe today!

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Must Read