Its no secret why: "The rule is no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote." said Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. In the 1992 presidential election. Latinos cast 4.2 million votes. By 2012. that number had nearly tripled. to 11.2 million. Now the Pew Research Center estimates that between 2012 and November 2016. 3.2 million U.S.-born Latino citizens will turn 18 and be eligible to vote. another 1.2 million Latino immigrants will become naturalized citizens. These numbers. however. obscure another trend: Since 1992. voter registration rates among Latinos have remained stuck at around 58%. By comparison. about threequarters of whites and blacks are registered voters.
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