Pilar Marrero: Mitt Romney continues to overwhelmingly lose the Latino vote and has low levels of favorability among the majority of the Latino electorate.
About Pilar Marrero
Pilar Marrero is a journalist who for 25 years has extensively covered city government, immigration, and state and national politics. A senior reporter for La Opinión, she is a regular commentator for radio and television in both Spanish and English media. She also teaches journalism courses at UCLA Extension. She is writing a book about how USA's immigration policy is undermining its economic future and national principles, which will be published in the spring of 2012.
Economic Issues, Not Faith or Religion, Drive Latino Votes
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Pilar Marrero: Moral issues rank very low in Latino Voter’s minds when making a voting decision while issues like the economy, jobs, taxes and minimum wage are far more important, a new poll released today shows. That finding totally contradicts the famous Ronald Reagan belief, said in the eighties, that “Hispanics are Republicans. They just don’t know it yet.”
Republican Candidates Do Not Resonate With Latinos
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Pilar Marrero: Among the eight candidates, there is no one equivalent to George W. Bush who would attract a significant percentage of the Latino vote.
Hispanics Aspire to Better Education
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Pilar Marrero: When it comes to seeking solutions for problems related to education and the low high school graduation rate, Latino voters are not so attached to ideological solutions (read: liberal or conservative) and freely choose from both options, sometimes in contradictory ways.
Latinos Support Raising Taxes on Wealthy
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Pilar Marrero: According to our poll, Latino voters are also almost completely opposed to balancing the budget following the formula of the GOP and the Tea Party: only budget cuts.
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