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Utica, NY--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--November
28, 2006--Just two years after 40% of Hispanic Americans voted for Republican
President George W. Bush’s reelection, far fewer say they think the Republican
Party understands them best, a new Zogby/Hispanic PR Wire telephone poll shows.
Barely one in five Hispanic
voters – 23% – said they felt the Republican Party understands them
best, compared to 56% who said they think Democrats know them better, the new
survey shows.
The Zogby/Hispanic PR Wire
poll, conducted Nov. 17–20, 2006, included 903 respondents, 737 of which
were voters in the Nov. 7 general election. The poll carries a margin of error
of +/– 3.7 percentage points.
Even among Hispanics who
said they were themselves Republicans, just 76% said they thought the GOP understood
them best. Another 8% said the Libertarian Party best understood them, 7% thought
Democrats knew them better, while 10% of Republicans said that either another
party better understood them, or that they were unsure. Among Democratic Hispanics,
83% said their own party better understood them, while 4% said Republicans understood
them best. Another 7% of Democrats said other minor parties had the best understanding
of them, while 7% were uncertain.
Asked which political party
is best equipped to manage a handful of important issues, Hispanics who said
they had voted in the recent congressional midterm elections favored Democrats
on each by wide margins, including immigration, where 49% said Democrats were
better equipped to manage the issue, compared to 26% who favored the Republicans.
The longer the respondent’s
family had been in America, the more likely they were to support Democrats over
Republicans on the issue, the survey showed. While 43% of those not born
in the U.S. said Democrats were better equipped, 56% of those who were fourth–generation
Americans or greater favored Democrats, suggesting that the more familiar Hispanic
voters were with Republican policies, the less they liked them.
Immigration was at the center
of a heated debate in Congress earlier this year that split the Republican Party
over how to deal with the U.S. southern border and immigrants who had entered
the country illegally. Some Republicans backed plans that would have dealt harshly
with such illegal immigrants – most of them Hispanic.
Which Political Party is
Better Equipped to Deal With:
Democrats Republicans Neither
Not Sure
Immigration
49%
26% 20%
5%
Health Care
66%
21% 10%
3%
Iraq War
57%
26% 15%
3%
Education
62%
23% 11%
4%
Terrorism & 45%
34% 16%
5%
Security
Representing
54%
28% 15%
4%
Your Values
The Zogby/Hispanic PR Wire
survey also asked a broader pool of respondents including both Hispanic voters
and non–voters which issues they believed were most important to the nation,
where a significant majority cited the Iraq war as the dominant issue.
While 60% said the Iraq
war was one of the two most important issues, 25% cited jobs and the economy
as a top concern. Terrorism was mentioned by 15%, while 13% said dealing with
the illegal immigration problem was a top concern. As with non–Hispanics
across the nation, Democratic Hispanics were more likely than Republican Hispanics
to say the Iraq war was a top concern.
About Hispanic PR Wire
Miami-based and Latino-owned
Hispanic PR Wire (HPRW) is the nation’s leading press release newswire
service for Hispanic and Puerto Rico journalists and marketers. Through
scores of news partnerships with many of the nation’s leading Hispanic
newspapers, magazines and Internet portals, HPRW gives clients more than 75
online placements with any geographic press release distribution.
Hispanic PR Wire sends corporate,
government and non-profit press releases and media advisories daily to thousands
of journalists subscribed to receive its email news and RSS feeds.
Hispanic PR Wire is a sister
company of editorial features service ConTexto Latino, Hispanic monitoring service
LatinClips, Hispanic professional development service Hispanic Market Pro, Hispanic
Web marketing firm Hispanic Digital Network and African American wire service
Black PR Wire. HPRW is also the exclusive Hispanic wire partner of leading corporate
wire distributor Business Wire.
For a detailed methodology
statement, please visit
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