Obama secures majority of Latino votes: polls

Obama secures majority of Latino votes: polls

 HOUSTON, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Latino-Americans voted for President Barack Obama over Republican candidate Mitt¹ Romney 71 percent to 27 percent in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, according to an analysis of exit polls released Wednesday.

Obama's national vote share among Hispanic voters is the highest seen by a Democratic candidate since 1996, when President Bill Clinton won 72 percent, according to the analysis by the Pew Research Center, a U.S. think tank.

The analysis also finds that Latinos made up 10 percent of the electorate², as indicated by the national exit poll, up from 9 percent in 2008 and 8 percent in 2004.

The exit poll analysis also shows that non-white voters made up 28 percent of the nation's electorate, up from 26 percent in 2008, and that Hispanics made up a growing share of voters in three of the key battleground states: Florida, Colorado and Nevada.

Latinos are the country's largest minority group.

According to the U.S. Census³ Bureau, in 2011 there were 51.9 million Latinos in the United States, making up 16.7 percent of the nation's population.

1 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

2 electorate   

n.全体选民；选区

参考例句：

• The government was responsible to the electorate.政府对全体选民负责。
• He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.他得到了几乎1/4选民的支持。

3 census   

n.(官方的)人口调查，人口普查

参考例句：

• A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
• The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。