• very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The big surprise to Democrats is that this also won over many Latino voters.

    It blows my mind that anyone continues to be surprised by this. Republicans have been gaining ground with Latino voters since Bush. How much longer do we have to wait before the DNC stops scratching their heads and actually tries to do something about it?

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      7 days ago

      Bush was popular among Latinos, and got 40% of their vote in 2004. But that’s not true of all Republicans since then. McCain got 31% in 2008, and Romney got 27% in 2012.

      Trump himself only got 29% in 2016 (much less than this year).