From: http://americasvoice.org/press_relea...012-elections/Huge Latino Support for Democrats in Presidential, Senate and House Races Shows Texas May Not Be Red for Long
The 2012 elections demonstrate that Latino and new citizen voters are changing politics in Texas and around the country. Newly-released election-eve polling from impreMedia and Latino Decisions – which surveyed Latino voters nationally and in eleven states, including Texas – shows how the candidates’ positions on immigration and other top issues were pivotal in determining Latino voters’s political choices and the election results.
In Texas, the new polling shows Latino voters supported Obama over Romney by a dramatic 70% to 29%, for a net contribution of 10.6 percentage points to Obama (based on Latino Decisions’ estimate that Latinos comprised 26.6% of the Texas electorate). In the Senate race, where high profile Latino Republican, Ted Cruz, was running, Latinos still supported Democrat Paul Sadler over Cruz by a margin of 65% to 35%, showing once again that Republicans cannot win over Latinos merely by running Latino candidates. The issues do matter.