See on Scoop.it – Geography Education
President Obama and Mitt Romney are set to make appearances beginning Thursday at a major gathering of Latino officials and activists…
A core component of the 2012 U.S. presidential elections will be the demographic profile of both the Republican and Democratic Parties’ power base. For most of American history, the African-American population was the largest minority second to the Caucasian minority. Since the 2000 census, the Latino population has overtaken the African-American population as the largest minority in the U.S. How does this impact both parties? What are the strategies of both parties to appeal from a diverse set of voters? How does the immigration issue shape ‘identity politics?’
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GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION 
August 6, 2012 at 1:41 pm
i was wondering since this does not give you soo much information if this means the latinos are making it so that orlando Florida is auto matically going to say Obama because there is so many african-americans oor latinos that there is no longer since in voting for Florida? there hasnt seemed to be a good website so i just asked! 🙂 thanks let me know:)
August 7, 2012 at 5:29 am
I think that the article is implying that the Latinos will really swing the election in both Florida and the United States and that (currently) more Latinos are leaning towards the Democratic Party in part because of the Republican Party’s stance on the immigration issue.