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Matt Barreto in Calexico Chronicle: “Polling Error: How One Survey Changed the Newsom Recall Campaign”

UCLA political scientist and public opinion researcher Matt Barreto is happy to knock other pollsters for their work on the recall (“It was conducted by drunk clowns,” he said of an August Emerson College survey that showed a close race). But he also said the media deserves some blame for mischaracterizing the state of the…

Michael Rios in ABC 7 News: “From the 2003 recall to today: How California’s voters have changed”

Michael Rios, a research analyst of UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, appears on ABC7 News discussing changes in California’s voting population since the last time the state held an election to recall the governor. Additionally, the state has added more Latino and Asian-American voters, and they tend to vote Democrat more often, although their…

David Hayes-Bautista in Penn State News: “Events celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month at Penn State”

The month’s keynote event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 6 p.m., featuring Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture and one of the nation’s foremost experts on Hispanic epidemiology.

Sonja Diaz in AP News: “California voters: Less Republican and white than in 2003”

“It’s not like it’s Baby Boomers that are Latinos and Asian Americans moving from another state to California. These are people born and bred in this state and they are aging into the electorate,” said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.

David Hayes-Bautista in ROI-NJ: “BofA study: Latino GDP in N.J. is $97B — and growing at much faster rate than overall state”

The data was released and discussed during an event featuring President of Bank of America New Jersey Alberto Garofalo, President of Bank of America Greater Philadelphia Jim Dever and David Hayes-Bautista of UCLA. The report provides detailed analysis of the state-level Latino GDPs for the eight key states, benchmarked against the broader U.S. Latino GDP.

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