‘We don’t have a choice’: young Latinos on why they’re voting for Clinton

*Latino millennials, 44 percent of the Latino vote, have emerged as the election’s biggest enigma. Everyone’s falling over themselves to get their vote, few know how to get it, and no one knows if they’ll vote at all. VL

By Lauren Gambino and Richard Luscombe, The Guardian (8 minute read)

Every 30 seconds, a Latino in the US turns 18 and becomes eligible to vote. In November, this growing slice of the Hispanic electorate will make up close to halfof the record 27.3 million Latinos who can cast ballots this election.

For a political party peering at its future, it would seem there is no more coveted group than young Latinos. Yet Hispanic millennials are three times less likely to turn out in a presidential election than the average American. And less than half of Latinos under 40 say they’ve been reached by a political party, campaign or organization this cycle.

Young Hispanic voters are increasingly independent, proudly bicultural and, anecdotally, in favor of dispensing with the phrase “sleeping giant”. They are more likely than their parents to be English-dominant and US-born. They are plugged into the political conversation online and across social media platforms and yet are three times less likely to vote in a presidential election than the average voter. READ MORE