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The Florida senator’s national appeal may be tepid among the Hispanic voters both parties are courting so desperately this election year.
Whoever wins the presidential election will do so in part by winning over a majority of the estimated 12 million registered Hispanic voters.
About two in three of them who went to the polls in 2008 voted for President Barack Obama.
But it’s unlikely those voters would be more likely to support Romney merely because he has a Hispanic running mate, said Matt Barreto of Hispanic Decisions, which conducted a widely cited poll of Hispanic voters in January for Univision and other media outlets.
"We don’t have any evidence that he would provide any significant boost to Romney if he were on the ticket," Barreto said, noting that the poll found that Rubio did best in Florida with first- and second-generation Cuban-Americans, but was less popular with Hispanic voters who had roots in Puerto Rico, Colombia and Mexico.
"He’s not going to be the type of candidate who can go out and resonate with the Mexican-American audiences in the Southwest," Barreto said.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us...ts_of_marco_rubios_appeal_to_hispanic_voters/
Whoever wins the presidential election will do so in part by winning over a majority of the estimated 12 million registered Hispanic voters.
About two in three of them who went to the polls in 2008 voted for President Barack Obama.
But it’s unlikely those voters would be more likely to support Romney merely because he has a Hispanic running mate, said Matt Barreto of Hispanic Decisions, which conducted a widely cited poll of Hispanic voters in January for Univision and other media outlets.
"We don’t have any evidence that he would provide any significant boost to Romney if he were on the ticket," Barreto said, noting that the poll found that Rubio did best in Florida with first- and second-generation Cuban-Americans, but was less popular with Hispanic voters who had roots in Puerto Rico, Colombia and Mexico.
"He’s not going to be the type of candidate who can go out and resonate with the Mexican-American audiences in the Southwest," Barreto said.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us...ts_of_marco_rubios_appeal_to_hispanic_voters/