As in previous elections, experts predict Hispanic voters will make a difference in Tuesday’s presidential election. With Hispanics accounting for 27.3 million of the country’s more than 225 million voters, the prediction is logical. “It is the largest Hispanic population of eligible voters of all time,” said Eduardo Gamarra, a professor at Florida International University (FIU), who thinks Hispanic voters could determine the winner. This marks a change from the past when Hispanics did not go out to vote in large numbers. Laird Bergad, a founding director of the Center for Latino Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean at New York University (CUNY), said in a recent analysis that 48% of Hispanics eligible to vote have actually voted in recent elections. Gamarra estimated the previous rate was between 47 and 49 percent, but noted that in this election the rate could exceed 51 percent, very similar to that of 1992 when Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill, was elected Pr...
