Politico: ‘Who is Bill Nelson?’

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Nelson wins despite his poor outreach to the Hispanic community because Latinos are only 16-18% of the elecotorate in Florida, compared to the white electorate being 60%.

I have no idea why Atlas overhypes Hispanics so much. Trump won in FL despite doing completely garbage with hispanics. White voters are 60% of the electorate, so it makes more sense for Nelson to campaign to old white voters rather than Latino voters. I actually think Nelson should be primarily focusing on old white voters who care about health care.

It also makes sense that Rick Scott is campaigning to hispanics... that's what persuasion is. Politicians target groups that their party usually does poorly with (Scott & Repubs w/ Latinos, Nelson & Dems with old white voters).


You would think after Hillary's loss that Atlas would realize how irrelevant hispanics are in the American electorate. You need to swing like 4 Hispanics to make up for 1 White voter.... in FL. It's about 8 Hispanics to 1 White voter in the US at large.


That said... as a senator from FL... Nelson's hispanic outreach is embarrassing. He owes it to his spanish constituents to work harder.


Edit: LMAO at this part

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Rode Obama's coattails? Nelson outperformed Obama by a lot.

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Nelson had to reintroduce himself to voters in 2012 too and voters seemed to like what they saw when he did. Also, the importance of Hispanics in elections is way overblown when they largely don’t even vote. Sorry, that’s the reality.

I am pretty sure Hispanics aren't even 35% of the electorate in New Mexico (a 48% hispanic state).

They're only 25% of the electorate in California, which is a state that is 39% hispanic.

Hell... they might not even be 30% of the electorate in NM.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

What a junk article. Nelson rode Obama's coattails to a win? Yes, because Nelson and his 13 point win really needed to rely on Obama's 1 point win to drag him over the finish line.

This reminds me of all the hot takes from the GOP Florida analysts about how Hispanics sealed Trump's fate in Florida, lol.

The mainstream media just doesn't realize how utterly irrelevant Latinos are electorally.

Like even David Valadao's district is barely majority miniority in its electorate, and it's almost 80% latino.