Politico: Sanders outpaces other 2020 Dems in Latino support

[JoeOtterbein]

(Disclaimer: the article is co-written by this DU poster's daughter)

[link:https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/bernie-sanders-latino-2020-vote-065820|

An independent analysis shows the Vermont senator easily leading with contributions from a key voting bloc.

By LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ and HOLLY OTTERBEIN 11/05/2019 05:04 AM EST

Bernie Sanders is racking up more donations from Latinos than any other Democratic presidential candidate.

An independent analysis provided to POLITICO shows that the Vermont senator is out front in online contributions to his campaign from Latinos — a voting bloc that will be key in critical early-voting states like Nevada and California.

Between January and July of this year, Sanders brought in an estimated $4.7 million from Latinos through the online fundraising platform ActBlue, an amount that makes up 16 percent of his overall fundraising during that period on the site, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission donation data using Census data on Latino surnames occurring 100 times or more.

The report, conducted by Juan Proaño and Plus Three, analyzed 4.7 million contributions totaling $131.2 million during the first two quarters of the year. Proaño and Plus Three, a Latino-owned technology and fundraising firm that consults nonprofits and political organizations, produced the analysis independently of any presidential campaign.

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[George II]

1. How do they analyze the source of millions of dollars in contributions that are "unitemized"? And...

...this is based on "Latino" surnames? He's got one contributor that has given more than 800 times with a surname that could be taken as "Latino", or "Italian", or any other non-Germanic name.

On the surface a very flawed analysis.

[Stuy]

2. Biden leads among Hispanics in this poll

Link to tweet

[TidalWave46]

3. Click bait headline.

The article then goes on to say that Biden has more support.

[Stuy]

4. Yes. It is a misleading headline

They didn't was want to use an accurate but more boring headline.

[Cha]

9. Not "boring" to me.

[Cha]

8. lol.. I wondered about that.. Good!

[JoeOtterbein]

10. No, the article says they are tied. What's up with that?

[TidalWave46]

11. Depends how you read it.

It’s so poorly written it’s not worth anything. It deceptive from the start. Cherry picking a poll to make a flawed point. Saying a specific metric means one is somehow leading in a way that metric cannot define.

Politico at its best.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread JoeOtterbein.

[Joe941]

6. Bernie continues to impress me.

[Hortensis]

7. Culturally, over half of all Hispanics, white and non-, are conservative.

What do Hispanic populists who don't want to tell family they're for Trump do to exercise their resentments and antagonisms? If only there was a LW populist leader...

Not to deny those Hispanic mainstream liberals drawn to Sanders' messaging, as well as socialists and other farther-leftists, of course. It's just that they're much fewer than populist types generally, so would assume they are among Hispanics as well.