Posted on 07/17/2015 5:48:30 AM PDT by jimbo123
From all appearances, Jeb Bush has the best chance among Republican primary contenders to win the Latino vote in 2016. He supports legal status for undocumented immigrants. He speaks fluid if not fluent Spanish. He's married to a Mexican woman with whom he's raised three bicultural and bilingual Latino children. In Florida, a heavily Latino state, Bush won two terms as governor. He's clearly rejected the anti-immigrant comments of Donald Trump . He's done more than any other candidate to appeal to Latinos, which is why he might be surprised to read the latest Univision poll saying that he won't win their vote any more than anti-immigrant white-guy candidate Mitt Romney did in 2012.
According to the poll, Jeb Bush would receive 27 percent of the Latino vote (the poll has a margin of +/- 2.62 percent) in a matchup against Hillary Clinton . Margins aside, that is an uncanny number: Mitt Romney won only 27 percent of the Latino vote in 2012, according to a post-election analysis by Pew .
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You know that’s not what I am talking about, but there are some like that.
2016 Presidential Election: GOP Candidate Needs 47 Percent Of The Latino Vote, Study Explains
I don’t think this is so above; there was a similar article I was looking for. Maybe someone did post it.
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