Why Latino Voters’ Political Shifts Could Decide 2022’s Key Races | WSJ

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A WSJ analysis shows that Latino communities drifted toward the Republican Party in the last presidential election. If the trend continues, it could mark a dramatic change for America’s two major political parties. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday and Aaron Zitner take a look at three places where Latinos could help decide important races in 2022. Photo illustration: Amber Bragdon

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  2. I believe there will be a shift back to democrats on the radical policy republicans are pushing. To vote Republican as a Latino you would be voting mostly against things that would benefit us.

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  8. Democrats have the house, the senate, and the president, and what do Americans have? the highest inflation since the 80s, record gas prices, a recession, and the most divided nation since the 70s. Biden is the most radical leftist since FDR. Biden's Bolsheviks will face the voters in November.

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  9. The people voting in 2022 don’t feel like their lives have improved under democrat majority, the average voter got a wake up call between 2020 and 2022. Even the Hispanic and black voters are tired of paying between 4-6 dollars at the pump, and they’re not happy with their grocery bills being at an all time high. Regardless of whether they voted blue in 2020, this time around they’ll be voting with their pocket books in mind. They just didn’t know how bad things get financially when democrats are in charge, now they know.

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  11. Honestly, my biggest surprise is that the Latino vote ever leaned Democrat in the first place. I know people are individuals and should be treated as such, but in discussing trends I believe it's okay to look at averages based on different traits. On average the Latino population is probably the hardest working population in our country, and hard working people on average tend to lean Republican. Also, on average the Latino population tends to be more religious and have traditional values, and those kinds of people also tend to also lean Republican. I suppose on average the Latino population tends to be lower income and in some areas may be made up of more illegal immigrants that are finding ways to vote, and the Democrats do support programs for lower income families and don't want to crack down on illegal immigration the way Republicans do, but honestly in practice the programs Democrats try to implement for lower income families don't tend to work and the people who tend to pay the highest price for them not working tend to be low income families. As an Indepedent, I solidly believe we need to drastically increase the number of people who are allowed to come to this country legally, and we need to find ways to streamline the immigration process, but if we can fix the legal immigration process from what I have seen most people, especially legal immigrants, support having common sense restrictions on immigration to keep dangerous criminals and terrorists out of the country. I definitely don't think Republicans are perfect at all, but compared with how far left the Democrat party is leaning these days I definitely am not surprised that many people in Latino communities are starting to shift towards the Republican party. Heck, for most communities this change isn't even about party policies specifically and is more about the fact that most people tend to live in the middle, and over the past couple of decades the Democrat party has moved significantly away from the middle and the Republican party has moved significantly towards the middle. As many people are saying today, "I didn't leave the Left. The Left left me."

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  13. You're wrong about one thing. People don't just have opinions on abortion. They have to LIVE and possibly die with these bad policies. When you have woman in large numbers needing emergency abortion care to save the life of the mother and you have a governor trying to prevent abortion at all cost risking the lives of women it doesn't matter if you vote red or blue. If the person in power is actively doing things that harm Americans they will put their political ideologies aside and vote against the person who is doing them harm. I mean you just used this example earlier. You said it yourself. The Latinos voted for Trump NOT because they liked him but because they felt that Biden would keep them unemployed and jeopardize their welfare. And these were Democratic voter who voted for Trump. They didn't change their ideology they simply voted from a perspective of practicality. Roe v Wade isn't just an opinion it's a livelihood and just like COVID-19 and the shutdown voters are going to weigh the Supreme Court decision and Greg Abbott's hard stance against abortion come November. I have anecdotal evidence too that party loyalty isn't enough because I have a friend in Texas who had a miscarriage of twins that didn't leave the body and even though the children were already dead hospitals refused to give treatment that would help the miscarriage fetuses to leave the body so she spent a week in pain as her uterus was decaying and she was contracting sepsis which could have killed her. Fortunately the body naturally got rid of the fetuses but she went though a lot that she didn't need to go through and she is no longer a fan of Abbott and his policies ESPECIALLY when it comes to abortion. So you best believe that this will be on a lot of American's minds this November and they will abandon party affiliations if their livelihood is at risk.

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  14. Both parties take the Hispanic vote for granted because Hispanics don't vote. They vote at lower rates than whites and blacks. Campaigns focus on likely voters and since Hispanics don't vote they don't talk to them.

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  15. Hopefully these Latino right wingers don't become like the ones in Latin America. The Latin American right wing is corrupt and evil. The American right wing are amateurs compared to them. Honestly look up who committed more human rights violations in the civil wars of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, or Colombia.

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  17. It's kinda Corny to be political. It's not really anything to be proud of. Left and right wherever. All your life? Well good for you. When does it end? Maybe a small potion of your life. Not all your life. Move on. It does mean anything.

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  19. I'd be considered anglo-american but have more in common with a Cuban-american than a Puerta Rican. One is a resident of Florida the other New York City, what exactly would anyone wish to share in common with a New Yorker????? Look we aren't the United States anymore and its not because of minorities its because of political persuasion. What we have in common is we all share the same rat race.

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