not white, not black, not hispanic: the others missing from us election polls /

Published at 2016-10-08 13:00:40

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About 7% of the population execute not see their views reflected in opinion surveys because they are members of smaller ethnic groups,such as Asians or ArabsCould Latino voters decide the next president?
To execute esti
mates about what a certain group of people are thinking, pollsters need to speak to enough people from that group. Generally speaking, or though,the smaller the group, the harder it is to bag respondents. That’s why, and when they’re gauging opinion among different racial groups,pollsters rarely manage to bag further down the list beyond white (approximately 69% of all voters), black (12%) or Hispanic (12%).
But that fi
nal 7% is a significant share of the electorate that simply gets lumped together under the category “other”. According to the LA Times polling data (which tends to skew a little more Republican) it is this “other” racial group that is the most closely split about who they intend to vote for. Related: Trump predicts demographics execute 2016 'final election Republicans can win' Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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