The complexity of the Latino community needs to be understood in order for the US’ second largest ethnic group to be adequately represented in our democracy.
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What the polls and the candidates keep getting wrong about the United States’ largest minority group.
In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won 60% of the American Catholic vote. This year, it will be difficult for him to obtain a similar score, and that could have immense consequences.
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years conducted without protections from a court order that forbid the GOP from using voter intimidation at the polls.
As the race for the Democratic nomination narrows to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, what does it all mean for November? We asked three scholars to closely analyze the Super Tuesday results.
The South is changing, with more Asian and Latino immigrants moving in and diversifying a region that was once black and white. Stacey Abrams knows that Democrats can win these rural voters.
Record high Latino participation shows this growing voter segment will turn out for parties and politicians who tackle issues they care about. That’s a big lesson for 2020 – and not just for Dems.
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Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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Sharon D. Wright Austin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
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Director of Research at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University
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Associate Director, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee
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Professeur des Universités en histoire contemporaine, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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Founding Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
