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Technorati"The findings indicate that both political parties have to work hard to secure and maintain their Latino support,” commented Gastón Espinosa, associate professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College in California.
“The Latino Protestant community is a volatile voting constituency that is sensitive to direct political canvassing and bread-and-butter issues like immigration."
Espinosa also posed: “Why should we care about the Latino Protestant vote in the first place?”
In response, he pointed out that this group is a “growing phenomenon” and a “fast-growing population.”
National polls indicate there are about 9.2 million Latino Protestants in the United States, making them one of the largest groups in the country.
The survey based on telephone interviews, conducted Oct. 1-7 with 500 Latino Protestant registered voters, was sponsored by the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, The Jesse Miranda Center for Hispanic Leadership at Vanguard University, Faith in Public Life, America’s Voice Education Fund and Gaston Espinosa, Ph.D., Claremont McKenna College and conducted by SDR Consulting.
More than 80 percent of Hispanic Protestants in the poll were self-identified as born-again and/or attended an Evangelical denomination.
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