It's been one week since President Obama was reelected to office after a decisive win over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
This is the first time since 1996 that a Democratic challenger has won such a high amount of the Hispanic vote. President Bill Clinton's run in 1996 saw him get 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Romney's 27 percent attraction is the lowest since 2000 and the third lowest since 1980. In 2008, Arizona Senator John McCain received 31 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Latinos are the fastest-growing voter bloc and made a point last week. This year, the electorate was made up of 10 percent of Latinos. In 2008, it was 9 percent and in 2004 it was four percent.
Although the election was not decided in key battleground states - such as Florida and Colorado - with large Hispanic populations, Latinos came out to vote like never before.
The center found that in Florida, 60 percent of Latinos voted for Obama - a three percent increase since 2008.
In Colorado, 75 percent of Latinos voted for the president - up from 61 percent in 2008.
In Ohio, the state that was the deciding factor of the election, 53 percent of Latinos voted for Obama.
The center found that 60 percent of Hispanic voters though the economy was the most important issue this election cycle.
Immigration was also a hot button issue for the Hispanic voting block - 77 percent said unauthorized immigrants working in the U.S. should be offered a chance to apply for legal voters.
"In the last two decades the Latino population has doubled," she wrote. "And more significantly, it has become more geographically diverse. Long gone are the days of equating the Latino electorate with only Los Angeles, Miami or Houston. To talk about Latinos today, we need to talk about Macon, Georgia, and Boise, Idaho. The political implication of this growth and geographic reach is the establishment of electoral firewalls. In this past election we saw the development and deployment of three such firewalls-the first in the Western states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico; the second in the new Latino destinations of Ohio and Virginia, and the third in Central Florida. But the durability of these firewalls will depend on whether the GOP continues to walk away from the Latino electorate of whether they will change their tune and start building their own Latino lines of defense."
All this year, the president has specifically targeted Hispanics.
In June, President Obama signed an executive order that allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country without fear of deportation and able to work. The order did not give any permanent legal status, but clears the way for young illegal immigrants to work legally and obtain driver's licenses and many other documents they have lacked.
The Department of Homeland Security can no longer initiate the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the United States before age 16, have lived here for at least five years, and are in school, are high school graduates or are military veterans in good standing.
Obama touts sending more than 3.2 million Hispanics to the Department Of Labor's Wagner Peyser Job Training Program in a single year and providing $4 billion to bring more Hispanics online and providing training needed for today's jobs.
According to his campaign, Obama has cut payroll taxes for 25 million Latinos, and loan $2.4 billion to Latino-owned small businesses.
Under the Affordable Care Act, in 2014, 9 million currently uninsured Latinos will have access to affordable health care.
The president said he is providing assistance to the 39 percent of all Latinos undergraduates by doubling funding for Pell Grants.
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