Latino Turnout in Iowa Demands Attention From Campaigns, Experts Say

*”Latinos will turn out when they’re asked to vote.” The results of the efforts in Iowa prove that fact. But it isn’t a new idea. That’s been the formula for successful Latino voter mobilization for decades. What’s happened this time, I think, is the combination of the tried-and-true ask with the emergence of Trump and the loud nativist rhetoric from the right. Nothing beats motivation and looking someone in the eye, shaking their hand and asking them to vote – person by person, door to door. VL


NBC_News_2013_logoBy Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News

Latinos may have given campaigns and candidates reason to pay more attention to them following their turnout in the Iowa caucuses and its tight races.

Exit polls showed that Latinos were 4 percent or 6,840, of the 171,000 Democratic caucus participants and 2 percent, or 3,700 of the 185,000 Republicans for a total of 10,540.

That number surpasses the goal set by the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa, which waged a campaign to get at least 10,000 Latinos to the polls, double the turnout in 2008.

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