Google Searches for Voter Registration Have Surged in Hispanic Areas
Google Searches for Voter Registration Have Surged in Hispanic Areas
by Nate Cohn at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/upshot/trump-effect-voter-registration-may-be-surging-in-hispanic-areas.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fupshot&action=click&contentCollection=upshot®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1
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But in elections, demographic change happens fast: in a surge of new voter registrations ahead of a presidential election. Just who registers and how many will be one of the biggest stories of the next month.
This wave has probably just begun, even if it isn’t yet reflected in the available voter registration data. For now, we’re left to read tea leaves — and they look good for Democrats.
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.
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