POLL: Hispanic Voters Favor Obama Over Romney By Nearly 3:1 Margin (McCain won 31% in '08)

[jefferson_dem]

POLL: Hispanic Voters Favor Obama Over Romney By Nearly 3:1 Margin

Months of extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric from Mitt Romney and his GOP rivals seems to be taking its toll, with Hispanic voters going to President Obama in a landslide according to a new Pew Hispanic Center poll released today. Despite overwhelming disapproval of his administration’s handling of illegal immigrants, President Obama still leads Mitt Romney 68 percent to 23 percent among Hispanics. Romney recently told TIME Magazine that he wants “to do as well as [he] possibly could” among Hispanic voters; however, today’s poll shows Romney is highly unlikely to reach the record 40 percent share of the Hispanic vote George W. Bush attracted in 2004 and that he may well do far worse than the 31 percent share John McCain took in 2008.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/12/28/395649/poll-hispanic-voters-favor-obama-over-romney-by-more-than-21-margin/

[Cali_Democrat]

1. I'm surprised at that 23%

[rfranklin]

2. There are right wingers in every ethnic and racial group...

It's like schizophrenia or cancer. It justs afflicts a certain portion of the population.

[joshcryer]

3. I'm not, there are a lot of Hispanics who own businesses.

8.3% according to the census. Contrast that with the fact that Hispanics make up about 16% of the population (same link), it's very comforting that more aren't Republicans. They know who is good for business, in the end.

[ProSense]

4. Good. n/t