Report

• Hispanic Electorate Likely To Double By 2030

  Nov 14, 2012 - Pew Hispanic Center reports the record number of Latinos who voted this year are the leading edge of an ascendant ethnic voting bloc that is likely to double in size within a generation.

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• Latinos Voted for Obama by More Than 2-to-1 Margin

  Nov 07, 2012 - Obama's national vote share among Hispanic voters is the highest seen by a Democratic candidate since 1996, reports the Pew Hispanic Center. The Latino vote was an important building block for Obama's win in key states, including Colorado, Nevada and Florida.

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• Latinos Have Growing Confidence in Personal Finances, Nation's Direction

  Nov 02, 2012 - Compared with 2011, more Latinos express satisfaction with the direction of the country, report that their finances are in "excellent" or "good" shape and expect their family's finances to improve in the next 12 months, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• Latinos Support Obama by Big Margin, But Less Certain than Others to Vote

  Oct 11, 2012 - Latino registered voters prefer President Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 69% to 21%; express growing satisfaction with the direction of the nation and the state of their personal finances; but are somewhat less certain than non-Hispanics that they will vote in this election.

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• Record 24 Million Eligible Latino Voters

  Oct 01, 2012 - The Pew Hispanic Center reports that a record 23.7 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data. This is up by more than 4 million, or 22%, since 2008, but turnout typically lags that of whites, blacks.

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• Up to 1.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrant Youth May Benefit from New Deportation Rules

  Aug 14, 2012 - An updated analysis of President Obama's new deportation policy finds 1.7 million of 4.4 million unauthorized immigrants ages 30 and under could qualify for temporary but renewable work permits to remain in the U.S. legally.

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• Latinos in the 2012 Election: Florida

  Jan 23, 2012 - Final registration statistics for Florida's Jan. 31 presidential primary show almost 1.5 million Latinos are registered to vote statewide, making up 13.1% of the state's voters. There are 452,619 Latinos registered as Republicans, representing 11.1% of all Republican registered voters.

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• As Deportations Rise to Record Levels, Most Latinos Oppose Obama’s Policy

  Dec 28, 2011 - Latinos disapprove by a margin of more than two-to-one of the way the Obama administration is handling deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Deportations have reached record levels under President Obama, higher than those of the Bush administration. However, the survey also reveals that heading into the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama and the Democratic Party continue to enjoy strong support from Latino registered voters, despite a decline in Obama's job approval rating.

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• The Latino Electorate in 2010: More Voters, More Non-Voters

  Apr 26, 2011 - A record 6.6 million Latinos voted in November but participation remains low primarily because of youthfulness and non-citizenship among Hispanics.

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• The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos

  Jan 05, 2011 - Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats, according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• National Latino Leader? The Job is Open

  Nov 15, 2010 - When asked in an open-ended question on a nationwide survey of Latinos to name the person they consider "the most important Latino leader in the country today," nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hispanics said they did not know.

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• The Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections

  Nov 03, 2010 - Three Latino candidates, all Republicans, won top statewide offices. But Latino voters supported Democrats by a near two-to-one margin.

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• Illegal Immigration Backlash Worries, Divides Latinos

  Oct 28, 2010 - The national political backlash against illegal immigration has created new divisions among Latinos and heightened their concerns about discrimination against members of their ethnic group-including those who were born in the United States or who immigrated legally.

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• Latinos and the 2010 Elections: Strong Support for Democrats; Weak Voter Motivation

  Oct 05, 2010 - In a year when support for Democratic candidates has eroded, the party's standing among one key voting group—Latinos—appears as strong as ever.

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• U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade

  Sep 01, 2010 - The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• Broad Approval For New Arizona Immigration Law

  May 12, 2010 - The public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law’s provisions giving police increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally.

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• Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: Most Diverse in U.S. History

  Apr 30, 2009 - Demographic changes have increased the number of eligible non-white voters, but the racial and ethnic diversity of last year's electorate was also driven by substantially higher levels of participation by black, Hispanic and Asian voters, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center.

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• Hispanics and the New Administration: Immigration Slips as a Top Priority

  Jan 15, 2009 - Latinos, who heavily supported Obama in the November election, rate such issues as the economy, health care and education as the more important issues facing the country. Hispanics were more likely to be first-time voters than were others in the general public.

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• The Hispanic Vote in the 2008 Election

  Nov 05, 2008 - This Pew Hispanic Center report contains an analysis of exit poll results for the Latino vote in nine states and for the United States.

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• Among Florida's Hispanics, Voter Registration Swings Democratic

  Oct 29, 2008 - Unlike in the rest of the country, the Latino vote in the Sunshine State has tended to be heavily Republican; but changing politics and demographics have produced a substantial shift in electoral rolls.

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• 2008 National Survey of Latinos: Hispanic Voter Attitudes

  Jul 24, 2008 - This Pew Hispanic Center survey finds the presumptive Democratic nominee now has a strong lead among Hispanics, a sharp reversal from the primaries when Obama lost the Latino vote to Hillary Clinton by a nearly two-to-one ratio.

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• The Hispanic Vote in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries

  Feb 21, 2008 - As the Democratic nomination contest heads for a showdown in Texas on March 4, the Pew Hispanic Center reports that Latinos may be a pivotal constituency in a state where they make up a quarter of the electorate.

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• The Latino Electorate: An Analysis of the 2006 Election

  Jul 24, 2007 - Did Latinos register and vote at higher rates in the mid-term elections of 2006? This fact sheet is based on data from a supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) that is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau every November of an election year. It also includes voting and registration data for both whites and blacks.

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• Analysis: Did Talk Hosts Help Derail the Immigration Bill?

  Jun 18, 2007 - On June 8 -- the day after the immigration bill suffered a major defeat when its backers failed to get a Senate vote -- there was barely disguised gloating on the part of some talk hosts, according to a PEJ analysis.

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• Report: Mixed Views on Immigration Bill

  Jun 01, 2007 - The public is ambivalent about the immigration bill being debated by the Senate.Yet one of the bill's primary goals, to provide a way for people who are in this country illegally to gain legal citizenship under certain conditions, wins broad bipartisan support.

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• 2006 National Survey of Latinos: The Immigration Debate

  Jul 13, 2006 - National survey of Latinos' attitudes surrounding the policy discussions on immigration in June 2006.

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• Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Surveys Among US Latinos And In Mexico

  Aug 19, 2005 - Immigration policy survey of the Latino population in the U.S. and in Mexico by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• Hispanics and the 2004 Election: Population, Electorate and Voters

  Jun 27, 2005 - Pew Hispanic Center analysis of the 2004 election finds a small increase in the amount of votes cast by the Latino population in the U.S.

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• Hispanics and the Social Security Debate

  Apr 01, 2005 - Report on Hispanic populations’ impact on Social Security and opinions about Social Security proposals.

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• Latino Attitudes on the War in Iraq, the Economy and the 2004 Election

  Jan 08, 2004 - This 2004 Pew Hispanic Center report studies Latino support for the war in Iraq and for President George W. Bush.

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