Why don’t Latinos vote?
Individual choices and political targeting decrease Hispanic voting and prevent Democrats from realising big gains
By E.M. | NEW YORK
VOTER turnout for American Latinos lags about 20 percentage points behind that of white and African-American voters. In the presidential contests of 2008 and 2012, for example, when turnout among blacks exceeded that among whites, more than half of voting-aged Latinos stayed home. With this year’s mid-term elections at hand, Americans are wondering: why don’t Latinos vote?
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