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tishaLA

(14,356 posts)
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 12:43 AM Sep 2024

Harris enthusiasm driving a surge in young Latino registration

Voter registration among young Hispanics jumped over the past two months, a change that the president and CEO of Voto Latino says is mostly driven by voter enthusiasm for Vice President Harris.

María Teresa Kumar told The Hill that Harris is tapping into a cultural phenomenon with the under-40 crowd. ...

"It was nuts. So we were registering roughly 60 to 100 voters a day on Friday. On Monday, it jumped to 3,000. By [the next] Friday, it was 8,000. It was super exciting. Night and day. It’s a very cool chart.” ...
https://thehill.com/latino/4883646-voter-registration-jumps-hispanics/

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Harris enthusiasm driving a surge in young Latino registration (Original Post) tishaLA Sep 2024 OP
Mahalo! Cha Sep 2024 #1
... tishaLA Sep 2024 #2
Aloha tish! Cha Sep 2024 #3
I so love good news like this. Thanks. nt Frank D. Lincoln Sep 2024 #4
Now this is important! ananda Sep 2024 #5
Good, I like it. republianmushroom Sep 2024 #6
The more people who participate in the election the better off we are. groundloop Sep 2024 #7
Old ladies for KAMALA!! Ladythatvotesblue Sep 2024 #8

groundloop

(12,427 posts)
7. The more people who participate in the election the better off we are.
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 01:07 PM
Sep 2024

It's my firmly held belief that if the United States was truly representative of the "average" of all people who live here we'd be a good bit more liberal than we currently seem to be. The GQP is only able to maintain the current state of affairs by voter suppression and convincing people that "both sides are the same".

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