Thanks, Donnie, for spending your entire week shining a continued spotlight on your abhorrent treatment of former Latina Miss Universe turned telenovela star, Alicia Machado. The Upshot writes:
Google trends data indicates that the searches for voter registration have surged over the last week — and that the highest rates of searches have been in disproportionately Hispanic areas.
By Wednesday evening, all of the top markets for searches for “register to vote” came in heavily Latino markets in Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona and Florida. The same pattern held into Thursday.
In the chart below, which isn't exactly intuitive, San Antonio appears to be the market where "register to vote" represented the largest proportion of google searches in comparison to other cities. Cities that also had a high proportion of registration interest include: El Paso and Laredo, Texas; Las Vegas; and Miami-Ft. Lauderdale.
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Of course, none of this guarantees actual registration. But it’s one more piece in a puzzle that suggests a potential surge of Latino voters this year given the stepped up efforts to register them across the country this cycle.
This year, newly registered voters have tended to be more Hispanic than in past years. According to data from Catalist, a Democratic firm, about 12 percent of newly registered voters were estimated to be Hispanic, versus 10 percent by the same point in 2012.
In Florida, the Hispanic share of registered voters has already risen to 15.3 percent on Aug. 1 from 13.9 percent at the time of the 2012 presidential election.
In 2012, the Hispanic share of registered voters increased to 13.9 percent from 13.5 between the August primary and the general election. A similar uptick would be bad news for Republicans; a bigger one would start to make Mr. Trump’s path to victory in Florida look very tenuous.
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