Democrats worry their grip on Hispanic vote is loosening

Democrats are worried they could be losing their electoral grip on Hispanics, the country's second-largest voter bloc by ethnicity.

A Wall Street Journal poll released last week showed Hispanic voters evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, and while that poll’s data faced substantive questions over its tiny sample size, its results sounded alarm bells among Democrats nonetheless.

“I think that both parties should always have a sense of urgency in communicating with Hispanics, Latinos,” said Ivan Zapien, a Democratic lobbyist and former executive director at the Hispanic Leadership Council...