U.S. Latinos leaderless, survey indicates

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Asked to identify their national leader, most U.S. Latinos could not name one, the Pew Hispanic Center reported Monday.

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) said they did not know. Another 10 percent responded, "No one."

In the Pew report, "National Latino Leader? The Job is Open," Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the person most often named at 7 percent. U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., followed at 5 percent, with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at 3 percent and Jorge Ramos, an anchor on the Noticiero Univision television news program, at 2 percent. No one else was named by more than 1 percent of respondents.

The bilingual survey of 1,375 Latino adults was conducted by landline and telephone from Aug. 17 through Sept. 19 and had a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.