The nation is only three weeks away from the mid-term elections, which will determine whether Democrats lose control of the Senate, and whether Republicans maintain dominance of the House of Representatives. 

Election watchers are curious about Latino voter response in the mid-terms, especially when the Obama administration has not delivered on its promise to take executive action for immigration reform -- a decision seen at time at odds with his own party.

President Obama twice postponed taking executive action, and his administration's aggressive approach to children refugees housed in detention centers and being processed through rocket docket legal hearings in immigration courts has not gone unnoticed. Nor has his Administration's aggressive deportation program, which has caused catastrophic disruption for many immigrant families, gone unnoticed.

A Pew Research Survey found a record number of Latinos eligible to vote in the 2014 midterm elections. The majority of the 25.2 million voters -- 96 percent. However, are in states where there are not contentious Senate or gubernatorial races. Experts are wondering how this will affect voter turnout this year. The greatest number of Latino voters live in New Mexico at 40 percent, Texas, with 27.4 percent, and New Jersey at 12.8 percent. In Senate seat battle states such as Colorado and Kansas, they only account for 14.2 percent of voters in Colorado and 5 percent in Kansas.

In the 2010 election only a third, or 31.2 percent, of eligible Latinos voters voted -- 6.6 million people -- and yet 14.7 million were registered to vote. Compare those figures to voter turnout at 48.6 percent for whites and 44.0 percent for black voters.

Latino voters are distinct in that they are younger than other groups and the numbers are known to be growing. The young are also known to turn out less to vote than their elders. Pew found 33 percent of Latino voters are aged between 18-29, compared to 18 percent of whites, 21 percent of Asians and 25 percent of blacks in the same age category.

The survey found 74 percent of Latino eligible voters are U.S. born and 26 percent are immigrants who hold U.S. citizenship. Among these voters 60 percent are of Mexican origin, 13 percent Puerto Rican origin, 5 percent are of Cuban origin, 4 percent Dominican origin and 3 percent of Salvadoran origin. Of those eligible voters, 17 percent hold a bachelor's degree or more.

Latinos strongly supported Democratic presidential candidates in recent elections and gave President Obama 71 percent of their vote in 2012 compared to 27 percent to Republican Mitt Romney said the survey. Voters tend to be affiliated with the Democratic Party, and in a poll in 2012, 70 percent said they did identify with or leaned towards the Democrats.   

The survey relied on four sources for its data: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and its 55,000 household Current Population Survey; the American Community Survey; and several Pew Research surveys with samples of 10,000 voting adults which often included 100-200 Latinos.