the Latino daily – Your Wednesday morning brief

TUESDAY, April 27, 2016

Good morning Taquistas!

It’s storming in South Texas as I begin this – a wonderful show, lightening, rain, thunder, hail . . .

Let’s get started before the power goes off.

There’s a good roundup of the Latino vote in yesterday’s 5-state primary vote

The NBC News article has three key paragraphs:

“The states with primaries Tuesday – Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland – are not the first to roll off the tongue in talk about the Latino electorate.

“But altogether, they hold 1.03 million eligible Latino voters, according to Pew Research Center. Not all will have registered by deadlines that run from February 26 to Tuesday, diminishing the impact.

“Southwest Voter Registration Education Project estimated that in 2012 about 515,000 Latinos were registered to vote in those states with turnout of those registered ranging from 81 percent to 91 percent.”

This same NBC News reports gives us:

►Wednesday’s numbers

280,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Connecticut, they are 11 percent of the total eligible voters.

40,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Delaware, they are 6 percent of the total eligible voters.

199,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Maryland, they are 5 percent of the total eligible voters

440,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Pennsylvania, they are 5 percent of the total eligible voters.

68,000 – The number of Latino eligible voters in Rhode Island, they are 9 percent of the total eligible voters.

►Three paragraphs that explain Hillary Clinton’s dominance among Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans, in Pennsylvania

“Clinton has been winning comfortable margins among Latinos in other states, and Pennsylvania is expected to be no different. Puerto Rican voters, who have consistently supported Clinton, constitute the largest percentage of Latino voters in the state. She won Pennsylvania in 2008 with wide support among Puerto Ricans and other Latinos.

“Philadelphia is home to the country’s second-largest population of . . . READ  MORE