WASHINGTON — Latino voters are strongly backing Sen. John F. Kerry over President Bush, who a majority say deliberately misled the public into war in Iraq, according to data released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A poll by the groups shows the Massachusetts Democrat leading Bush by a ratio of nearly 2 to 1 among Latino voters — a group whose numbers have grown 20% since 2000 but whose breakdown by party has stayed virtually the same since the last presidential election.
Of the 788 registered Latinos questioned in the poll, 59% said they supported Kerry, 31% said Bush and 3% picked independent candidate Ralph Nader.
In a larger survey of 1,166 registered Latinos, 54% said the president deliberately misled Americans while making the case for war in Iraq. And when asked about Bush's handling of the war, a majority were displeased, with 41% saying they strongly disapproved, nearly twice as many as those who strongly approved.
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