Last Tuesday, November 8, the midterm elections in the United States were held, in which millions of people cast their votes to elect public office in the country and their respective states. In these elections, communities of color voted to achieve a better representation.
It was this involvement of communities of color that prevented the ?Republican? that pundits predicted there would be in last week's election.
"What the experts didn't expect is that people had other concerns, and it appears that voters of color were more concerned about the state of their lives beyond the economy," said Sergio I. García Ríos, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas in Austin and former director of Surveys and Data at Univision News, at a press conference organized by Ethnic Media Services in which experts met to discuss the elections held last week.
García pointed out that “the ?Democratic? they were sending a message that they are disillusioned with the parties, but they have to stop extremism”, which prevented the “red wave”.
"What we see is that Latinos have different characteristics, but they continue to be mostly Democrats, the problem is that more and more they feel that their needs are not being heard," he said.
For her part, Christine Chen, executive director of Asian Pacific Islander American Vote?APIAVote, for its acronym in English?, pointed out that "Democrats still have the most support" and commented that "there is a growing number of independent voters among the Asian-American electorate, 35 percent overall, and the Chinese have the highest share at 47 percent."
African American women seek to be taken into account
Karma Cottman, executive director of the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, pointed out that the midterm elections underscored that African-American women are "an important constituent group regardless of party" and that they care about their safety and that of others. your families.
"Safety for us as women, as members of the black community, superimposed on what is security in terms of physical and financial security so that we can take care of our families," she said.
She also pointed out that it is important that Afro-American women be considered as a specific group, since sometimes both the Democratic and Republican parties refer to the Afro-American community as a whole and do not take into account the particular needs of each group. of the community.
They report that there was no intimidation of electoral workers
Finally, Gowri Ramachandran, Democracy Program Adviser at the Brennan Center for Democracy, commented that despite unfounded fears about voter intimidation, it was not a problem in the November 8 election. "In some communities, law enforcement leaders came out to say that intimidation of voters and poll workers was not going to be tolerated."
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