Poll: 'Sharp reversal' for Obama with Latino voters

[underpants]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new poll released Thursday shows overwhelming support from Latinos for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain.

Obama's approval rating with registered Latino voters, the nationwide Pew Hispanic Center poll found, is at 66 percent versus 23 percent favoring McCain.

Obama's favorability among Latinos is slightly up from a Gallup Poll summary of surveys taken in May, which showed Obama with 62 percent of Latino voters nationwide, compared with 29 percent for McCain.

reversal of what? Oh here it is

On Super Tuesday, Obama received only 38 percent of the Latino vote, while former rival Sen. Clinton received 58 percent, according to CNN exit polling.

"This means that Obama is doing better among Hispanic Clinton supporters than he is among non-Hispanic white Clinton supporters, 70 percent of whom now say they have transferred their allegiance to Obama while 18 percent say they plan to vote for McCain," Lopez said, referring to a recent Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey.





Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/24/pew.latino.poll/index.html

[Mark E. Smith]

1. Kick

Pretty cool info. Deserves a better fate.

[flamingdem]

2. Latinos will decide who wins! Let's push this issue, importante!

Thank dios for the Latino vote. Here in California we're calling New Mexico from phone banks. There is so much work to be done to bring in new voters and get them registered.

Miami and the Cuban Americans is even more critical. I wish I could be there to help because I understand something about that community. They are going democrat more and more but they are also getting bombarded with anti-Obama propaganda.

[flamingdem]

3. Kick

muy importante! Si se puede.

[aaroh]

4. tim kaine as vp speaking fluently in spanish should lock in the latino voters.

[high density]

5. What a weird headline

Instead of "Overwhelming support for Obama from Latinos" we get this weird ambiguous crap that is referencing the long gone and mostly forgotten primary season.

[underpants]

6. Exactly

As you can see I editorialized a bit there.

I was wondering "Since when do Latinos like Republicans?" and then I saw that they never did.

[mikeytherat]

7. It is done on purpose.

Just this morning, at 6:00 as the alarm went off and the news started on NPR, I hear this:
"A new poll shows McCain ahead of Obama." The NPR crew did not get into this story before I hit the shower, so I headed over to NPR's website to check this out. And what did I find? Nothing. Absolutely nothing related to the "headline" I heard at 6:00.

mikey_the_rat

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. the headline pushes a negative image,

despite the positive news.

Oh wait. POSITIVE for us means bad for corporate america. I get it.

[elehhhhna]

9. Yep. Very misleading headline.

[callous taoboy]

10. Yup, I was hesitant to even open up this story. n/t

[Enrique]

11. he flip flopped on being liked by Hispanics

make up your mind, Obama, do they like you or not!

[livingon]

12. Good to see this.