From The Nation:
On May 4 the Washington Post published what Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo called an "alarming-and darkly ironic" story stating voter registrations have dropped for African-Americans and Latino Americans. WaPo reporter Krissah Thompson wrote in her lead: The number of black and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since 2008, posing a serious challenge to the Obama campaign in an election that could turn on the participation of minority voters.... The most glaring issue with the Post's story was that the reporter Thompson used Census Bureau voting data that stopped at November 2010. University of California, Irvine professor Marty Wattenberg challenged the Census figures by comparing 2008 and 2012 elections figures in Florida and found that Latino-American registration increased by 9 percent. For Asian-Americans, the increase was 14 percent. Further, Wattenberg told Hasen (and confirmed with me by e-mail) that as recently as 2006, Republicans outnumbered Democrats among Hispanics, but by 2012 the reverse was true.

For the full story, please visit http://www.thenation.com/blog/167853/black-and-latino-voter-registration....