. >> clarissa martin as the castro -- joins me now to focus on latino voters in the midterm elections and serves as the latino vote initiativeaking to house, economic well-being, and immigration. also, the policy and we do policy work in those areas including civil rights. we are funded by foundations, corporations, foundations. we work with a lot of corporations. we run programs in which we partner with the federal government. host: you work on polling, pulling latino voters ahead of the midterms. talk about their priorities this election cycle, what have you found? guest: as part of our work, as a civil rights organization we are committed to a civil society in one way we do that is make sure more people are actively engaged. voting is one of those ways. we have programs to help eligible americans vote and because there are a lot of misconceptions about the hispanic electorate, we also do polling and research to try to list the priorities the community has. this year, we have been doing this for many cycles now. this year, what we have found, not surprisingly, the lingering tragedy