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title: "Hispanics Back Democrats in Midterms"
description: "Nearly two-thirds of Hispanic voters say they plan to support the Democratic candidate in this year’s congressional election, but enthusiasm to vote among Hispanics voters is low."
date: "2010-10-19"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/10/19/hispanics-back-democrats-in-midterms/"
---

# Hispanics Back Democrats in Midterms

Continuing a recent trend, Latino voters lean heavily toward the Democratic Party in the midterm elections. Nearly two-thirds of Latinos (65%) plan to back the Democrat in their local congressional election, while just 22% support the Democratic candidate. By contrast, the overall electorate is far more divided this year, if not tilting Republican. In 2008, Hispanics backed Barack Obama over John McCain by a 67%-31% margin, and in 2006, 69% of Hispanics backed Democratic candidates for Congress. But strong support for Democrats may not matter much if Latinos do not turn out to vote. Just one-third (32%) of registered Latino voters have given this year’s election “quite a lot” of thought, compared with 50% of all registered voters. Latino voters are also much less likely to say they are certain to vote than are all registered voters. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1752/poll-latinos-and-the-2010-midterm-elections-support-democrats-weak-voter-motivation)