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Pollster: Most People Are Getting The Critical Latino Vote Wrong In Colorado

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BuzzFeed - And it could decide the heated Senate race between Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Cory Gardner. But is Udall’s outreach too little, too late? AP Photo/Brennan Linsley In 2010, Sen. Harry Reid was engaged in a bitter battle with Sharron Angle. He was headed for a loss, polls said. Despite polls showing him down about 3% on average, he won by 5.6%. The surprise was largely attributed to Latino voters being polled incorrectly. Nate Silver wrote about this after hearing from Matt Barreto, of Latino Decisions, a polling firm focused on the Latino vote. Now with the 2014 midterm election looming, Barreto argues to BuzzFeed News that it's happening again, this time in Colorado where polls show Republican Rep. Cory Gardner leading Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. "Even if you give other polls the benefit of the doubt and assume the rest of their statewide numbers are correct — if you pull their Latino numbers out and put ours in — instead of Udall being down by 3, he&#39

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