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Florida’s Hispanic Voting Bloc Turning More Blue
New numbers released by The Pew Hispanic Center this morning show that more Hispanics voters in Florida this year are registered as Democrats (513,252) than as Republicans (445,526).
As recently as 2006, the center said, the reverse was true: among Latino registered voters in Florida, more were Republican (414,185) than Democratic (369,906).
The new numbers reflect what political analysts have been saying is one of the key changing voter dynamics in Florida’s Hispanic community. The influx of immigrants from countries other than Cuba – Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela -- ar, a slowly diminishing relative weight of the Cuban-American vote in Florida, overall.
These new groups do not have the similar historic links to the Republican Party and are Florida’s Hispanic blocs into far more of a swing vote.
-- Billy House, Media General News Service
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