Tuesday, January 7, 2014
About that New Jersey exit poll showing Chris Christie getting 51% of the Hispanic vote.......
It doesn't necessarily translate to potential Hispanic appeal on a national scale. Why not?
1. Unreliable, small sample size. Only 222 Hispanic voters out of a total electorate of 2.1 million voters. (MOE of +/- 7%)
2. Low Turnout Helped Christie. The lowest in New Jersey's history. Democrat turnout was 6 points lower than 2012 electorate. In short, liberal Hispanics were as likely to stay home as liberal whites.
3. Democrat party bosses cut a deal by throwing a weak candidate out there (and gave her absolutely zero support), knowing Christie's re-election was all but certain. Consequently, a large number of Democrats opted to vote for the incumbent. Of course, some of these were Hispanic voters. That isn't likely to be duplicated on a national level, because as the author points out, Hillary Clinton (or whoever else would be the Democrat nominee) is not Barbara Buono.
I encourage you to read the entire analysis here. It's quite good.
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-Right Wingnut,
2016,
Chris Christie,
Christie Vetting,
Hispanic
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Barbara Buono was a joke candidate with a joke platform and a joke campaign. Humpty Dumpty would have crushed her. Christie doing so is nothing to brag about.
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