Where the Hispanic voters are — and aren’t

Published October 16, 2014 9:30pm ET



As if in response to my column on Hispanic voting in today’s Washington Examiner, which seems to have sparked many comments, the Pew Research Center has come out with a report on Latino voters and the midterm elections, which includes the Hispanic percentage of eligible voters for each state and each congressional district.

Nationwide the percentage is 10.7 percent, a little higher than the 10 percent of the votes cast by Hispanics in the 2012 presidential election according to exit polls; Hispanics are expected to cast about that or a little lower percentage in this November. Obviously, many Hispanic residents are ineligible to vote because they are not citizens, and so Pew’s numbers are based on estimates and subject to error. But Pew’s work has been pretty rigorous, and these are almost surely the best numbers available.

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