Early voting Hispanics grow 13 percent: official

[usregimechange]

WASHINGTON — The number of Hispanic voters who cast early ballots in this year's legislative elections grew by 13 percent compared to 2006, a senior White House official said Monday.

"We worked hard and made a major effort to reach out to Latinos. We contacted four times more Latino voters that we did in 2006," President Barack Obama's senior political adviser David Axelrod told Hispanic media in a telephone interview.

He said Latinos had cast 660,000 votes so far in early ballots ahead of Tuesday's mid-term elections -- 13 percent more than the early voting total for the 2006 mid-terms -- a number he called "very encouraging."

"If early vote is a trend you're going to see a good outcome in Nevada, California, Colorado," western states home to particularly tight and hard-fought contests, including in Nevada between Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sharron Angle, a Republican.

A total of 5.59 million Hispanics voted in the 2006 legislative and gubernatorial elections, 69 percent of them for Democrats.

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[flamingdem]

1. wow, I am soo hoping the msm eats crow manana nt

[Quixote1818]

2. This is very encouraging. Could be just enough to tip a lot of close elections our way. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. They are also not polled

Vann charts and crow...

Now go vote...

[BlueCheese]

4. How much has early voting changed overall?

It'd be useful for comparison purposes.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. I just had a mental image of Axelrod smiling because

he got thousands of new latino voters to the polls and won fair and square.

[rufus dog]

6. But according to Gallup

These Latinos and Blacks will be voting for Republicans! :sarcasm:

[K8-EEE]

7. Lovely Mexican-American lady in the subway said to me today

"I'm a democrat too!" when she saw my rally signs! Here's hoping for a big blue (and brown) wave tomorrow!

[David Zephyr]

8. Loverly. +13%. That's significant. And I doubt if they were "polled" either.

Silent majority voting.

[the redcoat]

9. Yes! Fuck "Latinos 4 Reform!" nt

[howard112211]

10. Is that the sound of the cavalry?

Caucasian democrats are so busy infighting they forget that other people are paying attention too. And the amount of shit that hispanics had to endure from the Republicans lately is deafening.