GOP Fared Worse Among Latinos Than National Exit Poll Shows, Pollster Says

“The sampling design on the national exit poll is not intended to get accurate or representative samples of subgroups like Latinos or Asians,” Matt Barreto, the co-founder of Latino Decisions, told The Huffington Post in an email. “It is just simply not their objective.”

A Latino Decisions poll of 4,200 Hispanic voters in the five days preceding Election Day found far less favorable results for the GOP. Hispanic support for Abbott in Texas polled at only 32 percent — 12 percentage points less than the exit poll. Latino Decisions said Brownback was winning 31 percent of the Latino vote in Kansas — 16 points less than the exit poll showed. Deal had 27 percent of the Latino vote in Colorado, according to Latino Decisions — 20 points lower than what the exit poll showed.

Barreto said the Latino Decisions numbers on Hispanics are more accurate because its sample statistically represents the Latino population and pollsters’ interviews were conducted in the language of the respondents’ choice. The national exit poll overrepresented Latinos with advanced educations who lived in the suburbs, Barreto said. For example, Barreto said exit polling in Texas didn’t include precincts in the Rio Grande Valley, home to roughly one-quarter of the state’s Latinos.

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