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PS: Political Science & Politics (2005), 38 : 41-49 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2005 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017.S1049096505055770
Published online by Cambridge University Press 06 Apr 2005
 
Political Science and Politics (2005), 38:1:41-49 American Political Science Association
Copyright © 2005 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017/S1049096505055770

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The Latino Vote in the 2004 Election

David L. Leal a1c1, Matt A. Barreto a2c2, Jongho Lee a3c3 and Rodolfo O. de la Garza a4c4
a1 The University of Texas at Austin
a2 University of California at Irvine
a3 Tomás Rivera Policy Institute
a4 Columbia University

In presidential elections over the last several decades, observers have noticed two patterns involving Latinos. The first, according to DeSipio and de la Garza (2002, 398), is that “With each presidential election, the media and the punditocracy discover Latinos anew.” As Jorge Ramos (2004) pointed out, “Without fail every four years, many politicians in the United States rediscover Latinos, only to forget them all over again for the next three years…It is a phenomenon so predictable that I have dubbed it the ‘Christopher Columbus Syndrome.”’


Correspondence:
c1 David L. Leal is an assistant professor of government at The University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1998. He has published articles on Latino politics and education policy in journals such as Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Political Behavior, Urban Affairs Review, and Social Science Quarterly. He was an APSA Congressional Fellow from 1998–1999.
c2 Matt A. Barreto is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of California, Irvine and a research associate at the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. His research interests include Latino political participation and voting behavior, and he has published in several academic journals, including the American Political Science Review. His dissertation, “Ethnic Cues: The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation,” was awarded a Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship.
c3 Jongho Lee is a senior research associate at the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. Serving as TRPI's Director of Survey Research, he has directed or co-directed numerous research projects on the Latino community. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin and has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science and Social Science Quarterly. He received (with co-authors Matt Barreto and Harry Pachon) the award for the best paper on race, ethnicity, and politics at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting.
c4 Rodolfo O. de la Garza is the Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science in the department of political science at Columbia University, where he is also director of the Master of Public Administration program. He has also served as vice-president for research of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute since 1994. He directed the Latino National Political Survey and has published numerous articles on Latino voting behavior in a variety of professional journals.

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