In the United States, Latino Voters Lie Low

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Rios said she likes Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

"Never Donald Trump," she said of the top Republican candidate, pointing to his "way of thinking."

But she admitted she does not know much about politics. And with enough trouble making ends meet, she said she has no time to devote to it.

Year after year, political analysts herald the rise of the Hispanic vote. But the giant is lying low -- despite intense efforts by Democrats, and to a lesser extent Republicans, to mobilize it.

Hispanics represent an electoral group seeing the fastest growth, in comparison to whites and African Americans. But abstention is much higher among them. Half did not cast ballots in 2012, compared to about a third of blacks and whites, according to the Pew Research Center.

Concentrated in certain states such as Florida and Nevada, they are more or less ignored in a state like Iowa, which holds closely watched caucuses on Monday.

For the most part Latinos could care less about elections...unless it's one of their own. The biggest question the GOP should be concerned about is if a majority of Latinos will be motivated to come out to oppose a Trump candidacy, because you just know Hillary and the Democrat machine is gonna go extra hard after them if Trump turns out to be the Republican nominee.

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