Latino voters likely to be decisive factor in handful of key races

*Depending on who’s talking, Latinos will be either inconsequential, absent, important or  decisive in the coming midterm election. I agree. But when you dig to specific races in specific places, the role of the Latino voter becomes more clear. All this implies that Latino voters will go to the polls. And that’s a different story. VL

By Andrew O’Reilly, Fox News Latino

Many of the old political chestnuts about how and when U.S. Latinos vote are eroding. Voting blocs like Mexican-Americans in border states and Cuban-Americans in South Florida are becoming less monolithic and more difficult to predict.

One of the commonly-held notions of 2014 is that Latino voter turnout for midterm elections is, in historical terms, less than that of other groups – a situation that analysts are suggesting will be compounded this November by a limited number of closely-contested races in the more demographically Latino-heavy areas of the country.

And while polls confirm that many Hispanic Americans care deeply about traditional hot-button issues like immigration reform, for many Latinos bread-and-butter economic issues may be more of a deciding factor in how they vote.

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