Messing With It: Hispanic Women Outvote Hispanic Men In Texas

Hey laaaadies! Guess what? Y’all totally pwned the Texas primary, constituting about 20% of the total votes, with Hispanic men at about 14%. Hmm. To what can we -blame- attribute this?:

The surge in Latina voter participation in Texas was due to several factors, including the on-the-ground efforts of groups like the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (SVREP), which launched a major nonpartisan campaign to reach thousands of Latina voters though traditional and non-traditional methods including barbecues, church meetings, phone banking, text-messaging and emails.

Cool! You were all utterly annoyed into voting. For whom? For Hillary! Why? Because she has a uterus. Full of knowledge:

“It’s clear that (Latina) women voters were a key base vote in the election,” says Lydia Camarillo, SVREP’s vice president who spearheaded their work in Texas. Asked why most Latinas voted for Clinton, El Paso native Camarillo points to the long history of the Clinton family in Texas as well as the possibility of making history by electing the country’s first female president.

“They were voting for a woman,” says Camarillo. “They felt a sense of history with her. The under-30 voters were going for Obama. I saw a lot of people with conflicts up until the very last minute. But, in the end, they seemed to be voting for the person that they knew the best.”

We also vote for people running on the “Vagina” ticket. Sometimes, when no one running has a vagina, we’ll vote for whoever has the funniest mustache or cutest accent or looks like he might possibly be double-jointed. Because, when it comes to participating in the democratic process, we’re super passionate about the important issues.

Hispanic Women Outvote Men in Texas [New America Media]