A big chunk of Latino independent voters are undecided ahead of midterms, poll shows
About 40 percent of Latino voters who consider themselves Independents say they remain undecided, a NALEO tracking poll found.
About 40% of Latinos who consider themselves independents say they remain undecided whether to vote for Democrats or Republicans in congressional and Senate races, the fourth week of a tracking poll shows.
The indecision was captured in the weekly tracking poll for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, known as NALEO. It comes with about six weeks to go before the midterm elections Nov. 8.
"With just about a month away from Election Day and days before the beginning of early voting, we're seeing twice as many undecided independent Latino voters as we did in 2018 and a growing young electorate that is still considering whether to vote in November," NALEO Executive Director Arturo Vargas said.
In addition, 26% of Latino independents said they are not following very closely the congressional elections to decide who controls Congress, and 13% said they are not following the elections at all. Among Latino voters overall, those numbers are 21% and 6%.
“There’s a lot of negativity out there and people get turned off by politics,” said Stephen Nuño, a political analyst for BSP Research, a Democratic firm that conducted the poll.
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