'Americans Stole Our Land'

A quick search found this from the William C. Velasquez Institute.

About Us: Latino Community Research

The William C. Velasquez Institute has been answering statistical questions about the Latino community since it was founded in 1985. The links below represent various datasets, research projects, and publications produced or gathered by WCVI.

It looks like the majority of legal Latino immigrants vote Democrat, were born in the US, over half support allowing illegal immigrants to stay and obtain legal status, over a third graduated college, and 45% of them make over $70K/year. BearMtn, I think your sample might be biased.

http://www.wcvi.org/latino_voter_resear ... tpoll.html

About the Exit Survey

The William C. Velásquez Institute (WCVI) conducted an exit poll to measure how Latinos voted during the November 2008 General elections. Methodology: The William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) emailed over 160,000 mostly Latino registered voters in randomly drawn precincts from the eleven States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Emails were sent the morning of 11/4/2008 and survey gathered information until 11/8/2008 . Emails for registered voters were identified using the complete voter registration databases in all the named states. The email survey had both English and Spanish translations.

Toplines for WCVI Exit Poll Results for November 4, 2008 General Election
Last Updated November 18, 2008
Question 3: For whom did you vote for President and Vice President? Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin? Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden? Or one of the other candidates?

Por quien voto para Presidente y Vice-Presidente? ,Votaria por el republicano John McCainy Sarah Palin? o el Democrata Barack Obama y Joe Biden? Alguno de los otros candidatos?

U.S.
McCain - Palin
28.7%
Obama - Biden
68.6%

Question 6: Which comes closest to your view about what government policy should be used toward illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States? Should the government:
Allow illegal immigrants to remain in the United States and become U.S. citizens, but only if they meet certain requirements like working and paying back taxes over a period of time
55.5%

Grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the country, giving them residence and the right to work without the fear of being deported
19.2%

Have a guest worker program that allows immigrants to remain in the United States in order to work, but only for a limited amount of time
16.1%

Make all illegal immigrants felons and send them back to their home country
4.7%

No Opinion
2.2%


Question 9: How would you characterize your political affiliation?
U.S.
Democrat / Democrata
59.1%
Republican / Republicano
22.1%
Independent - Decline to State / Independiente o declina mencionar
15.8%

Question 12: If not born in the U.S., when did you become a citizen?
I was born in the United States
74.9%
During or Before 2004 / Durante o Antes del 2004
21.8%
During 2005-2006 / Durante 2005-2006
2.1%
During 2007-2008 / Durante 2007-2008
1.2%

Question 13: In what country were you born?
United States
69.0%
Cuba
5.3%
Mexico
8.2%
Puerto Rico
5.1%
South America
4.4%
Central America
4.9%

Question 18: What is the highest grade in school you completed?
College graduate / Termine la Universidad y recibi un titulo
32.8%
Graduate education or higher / Maestria o Doctorado
18.8%
High School graduate or equivalent / Termine la secundaria
10.7%
Some college or vocational / Asisti la Universidad o algo equivalente
36.7%
Some high school or less / no termine la secundaria
0.9%

Question 19: If you added together your entire household's income, would it be:
$10K-$20k
2.8%
$20,001-$30K
4.0%
$30,001-$40K
8.6%
$40,001-$50K
11.1%
$50,001-$60K
12.4%
$60,001-$70K
11.8%
$70,001-$100K
21.1%
Over $100K
24.6%
Under $10K
3.5%

Question 20: In what state are you registered to vote?
Arizona
3.3%
California
39.1%
Colorado
2.8%
Florida
19.4%
Illinois
1.5%
Michigan
1.9%
New Jersey
2.6%
New Mexico
2.6%
New York
6.1%
Pennsylvania
1.6%
Texas
18.2%

http://hispanic.cc/census_finds_huge_gr ... voters.htm

Census Finds Huge Growth in Hispanic Voters
The Census Bureau on Tuesday released a treasure trove of voting statistics, http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-562.pdf but perhaps most interesting were statistics comparing the Hispanic vote between 2004 and 2008. Here's Governing magazine's Josh Goodman on what happened:

The Census estimates that there were 9.745 million Hispanic voters in 2008, compared to 7.587 million in 2004 — an increase of 28.4%. Overall, an estimated 131.114 million Americans voted in 2008, compared to 125.736 million in 2004, an increase of just 4.3%. Another way of looking at it: there were 5.4 million additional votes cast in 2008 compared to 2004 and about 2.2 million of them were cast by Hispanics.

Overall, this has to be seen as good news for Democrats — when a group that makes up half of all new voters polls in your favor by a 2-to-1 margin (Obama polled at 67% in exit polls among Hispanics). It remains to be seen whether Hispanics continue to increase their participation rate (their voting rate was still only 49%, compared with 66% for non-Hispanic whites and 65% for blacks). But even if their voting rate falls off, growth among the Hispanic population will still make them a larger and larger proportion of the pool of voters.

http://pewhispanic.org/publications/?year=2011
Lots of stuff here, peruse at your leisure. One of the stories claims only 11.2 million illegal immigrants.

If you had checked more of the poll, you'd see that already 87% of those polled were dissatisfied with the direction of the country back in 2008, and I doubt that that number's changed much, but these voters are not likely to turn to Republicans instead since they see Republicans as even more out of touch with their goals. Yes, these numbers are from 2008 - there's nothing out there that's more recent except from the Hispanic Pew Group. And usually I get flack for using Pew, so I didn't bother. But here's the 2010 latino voting results from there:
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=130

http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=127
Latinos and the 2010 Elections: Strong Support for Democrats; Weak Voter Motivation
10.5.2010

When it comes to opinions of President Barack Obama, a greater share of Latino registered voters approve of his job performance than do all U.S. registered voters-63% versus 47%.

The new survey also reveals that the Democratic Party continues to hold a large advantage in party identification among Latino registered voters. More than six-in-ten (62%) Latino registered voters say they identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while one-quarter (25%) say the same for the Republican Party.

Democrats are seen as the party that has more concern for Hispanics. Nearly half (47%) of Latino registered voters say this about the Democratic Party-down from 55% in 2008, but similar to the share on this question expressed by Latinos for much of the past decade. In contrast, very few see the Republican Party as more concerned about Latinos than the Democratic Party-just 6% of all Latino registered voters and 18% of Republican Latino registered voters say this.

http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=128
Illegal Immigration Backlash Worries, Divides Latinos
10.28.2010

For example, fully 86% of Latinos support providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants if they pass background checks, pay a fine and have jobs, a level of support far greater than among the general public (68%). Among Latinos, about eight-in-ten (82%) of the native born and nine-in-ten (90%) of the foreign born say they support providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

On birthright citizenship, nearly eight-in-ten (78%) Latinos say the Constitution should be left as is, compared with 56% of the general public who say the same. And when it comes to who should enforce the nation's immigration laws, more than three-quarters (77%) Latinos say it should be the exclusive responsibility of federal authorities, while just 15% say the local police should play a more active role. On both questions, the native born and the foreign born hold similar views.

Finally, the vast majority of Latinos-79%-disapprove of the first-of-its-kind Arizona law enacted this year that gives police broad powers to check the immigration status of people they stop for other reasons whom they suspect may be in this country illegally.[2] By contrast, the general population approves of the measure by a ratio of two-to-one.

They aren't going to vote Republican if this big of a percentage favor allowing illegals to stay after qualifications are met (despite the fact that neither party really does much other than "for show" speeches, but the perception is all that matters and the perception is that Republicans aren't as sympathetic as Democrats toward this issue - who do you think they'll vote for?)

Biased - did you see how they conducted the poll? Yes, it's biased toward those who have a computer.

The William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) emailed over 160,000 mostly Latino registered voters in randomly drawn precincts from the eleven States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.