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MyNameIsKhan

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Mon Nov 7, 2016, 07:21 PM Nov 2016

In Trump’s Most Important County in FL, a Huge Surge of Hispanic Voters

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-11-07/in-trump-s-most-important-county-a-surge-of-hispanic-voters-iv7he39o

There are 1.5 million registered voters in Miami-Dade county (56 percent of whom are Hispanic), including nearly 30,000 added during a last-minute voter-registration drive in October, after Democratic Party officials went to court to extend the deadline in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Through Saturday, according to Smith, 707,844 county residents had already voted: 44 percent were Democrats, 30 percent Republican, and 25 percent had “no party affiliation," a group that tends to skew younger and Hispanic, and thus toward Clinton. The demographic mix of early voters also looks highly favorable to Clinton: 58 percent Hispanic, 17 percent African-American and 20 percent white.
But the late registrants, Smith says, give the clearest indication that sentiment in Miami-Dade is running strongly against Trump. Of the 29,657 voters who registered last month, 41 percent are Democrats, 44 percent are unaffiliated, and only 12.5 percent are Republicans. “That’s nuts,” said Smith. “These are the barometers that indicate the hostility toward the GOP candidate.”
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In Trump’s Most Important County in FL, a Huge Surge of Hispanic Voters (Original Post) MyNameIsKhan Nov 2016 OP
I pray tRump is defeated to no end and the stench of the gop Southern Strategy gets flushed down uponit7771 Nov 2016 #1

uponit7771

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1. I pray tRump is defeated to no end and the stench of the gop Southern Strategy gets flushed down
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 07:26 PM
Nov 2016

... with the likes of tRump and its ilk.

America is better than that, no doubt

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