Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Politics Republicans, Guns, Latinos — Oh My!
Posted by Bruce Barry on Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:45 AM
As Adam Winkler summarizes in a Daily Beast piece this morning, polls consistently show that more and better regulation of firearms is an issue of some importance to the Hispanic electorate. A Pew Research Center poll earlier this year asked whether it's more important to protect the rights of Americans to own guns or more important to control gun ownership. As the chart below illustrates, Hispanic respondents were far less likely than whites (and even a bit less likely than blacks) to endorse gun rights as more important than gun control.
With Republicans also finding themselves in the 2012 election on the wrong end of a pretty significant gender gap, it is worth mentioning (even if it goes without saying) that women also favor more regulation of guns over expanded gun rights — by a margin over more than 20 percentage points in the Pew survey.
While there is nothing amusing about the circumstances that have propelled firearms back into the public policy limelight, it will be somewhat diverting to see how the GOP evolves and arranges its Latino/NRA simulpander.
A version of this post also appears at BruceBarry.net.
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