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THURSDAY, March 23, 2016


Good morning Taquista!

I checked, the next presidential primary elections (actually it’s a cacus) is the Democratic contest this weekend in Washington State. After that, in two weeks’ time, Wisconsin votes April 5, then Wyoming on April 9, followed by New York a week-and-a-half later on April 19.

Don’t choke on your doughnut when I say this, it isn’t press-stopping news, but there aren’t enough Latinos to make a difference in the first two states, and the number of delegates isn’t significant either. New York is three-and-a-half weeks away, and the Latino vote will be significant there. Either way, they’re the first vote counts after the raucous SuperTuesday’s, so we’ll start the day’s news looking at the numbers in some of those races.

Thursday’s numbers

370,000 – The Latino population of Wisconsin.

156,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Wisconsin.

3.6 – The percentage of Latino eligible voters in Wisconsin.

96 – The number of Democratic primary delegates in winner-take-all Wisconsin.*

42 – The number of Republican primary delegates in winner-take-all Wisconsin.*

57,000 – The Latino population of Wyoming.

28,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Wyoming.

6.5 – The percentage of Latino eligible voters in Wyoming.

18 – The number of Democratic caucus delegates in Wyoming.

3.6 million – The Latino population of New York state.

1.8 million – The number of Latino eligible voters in New York State.

13.8 – The percentage of Latino eligible voters in New York State.

291 – The number of proportionally assigned Democratic primary delegates in New York State.

95 – The number of proportionally assigned Republican primary delegates in New York State.

*Wisconsin is really a hybrid election state where delegates are allocated using a confounding formula of congressional and state-wide delegates, and that’s aside from top voter privileges and district-level splits. It’s just easier to say it’s winner-take-all because the end result is almost the same.

Source: Pew Research Center, Election Central

►Two paragraphs that explain the significance of the Latino vote in upcoming elections

Still on the horizon are the April 19 primary of New York, where 13 percent of eligible voters are Latino and the June 7primaries of New Mexico, with an electorate that is 40 percent Latino and California, with an electorate that is 28 percent Latino, according to Pew Research Center.

While Clinton has been winning states with significant African American voting populations, Sanders has . . . READ MORE



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