Latino Decisions poll: Obama 73, Romney 21

[ProSense]

Wave 6 Tracking Poll: Obama widens lead nationally, Romney closer in battleground states

By Latino Decisions

This week’s impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll found slight gains for presidential candidate Mitt Romney in battleground states with 33% certain to or thinking about voting for him. However, the over national polling data shows the strongest week to date for President Obama and the Democrats, with noticeable gains over last week’s poll. (Full wave 6 results here | impreMedia Voto2012 )

Fifty-one percent of Latino voters in ten battleground states said they trust Obama and the Democrats more to make the right decisions and improve economic conditions, compared to 27% for Romney and Republicans. When combined with voters in non-battleground states, the numbers jumped to 72% and 20% respectively, a significant increase from 4 weeks ago when overall 59% said they trusted Obama and Democrats more versus 30% for Romney and Republicans to fix the economy.

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Core support for Romney among Latino voters also continues to be problematic, with just 10% of respondents saying they had a “very favorable” opinion of Romney, compared to 55% for Obama. “Is Romney out of the race? No, but he is definitely in trouble among Latino voters,” said Monica Lozano, CEO of impreMedia. “Obama has consistently gained ground among Latinos on a week over week basis, and while Romney’s support is higher in key battleground states than elsewhere, it may be too late to close the gap.”

The ImpreMedia – Latino Decisions tracking poll puts Obama ahead with 73% overall to vote for him and 21% for Romney. In the battleground states Obama gets 61% of the voters versus 33% for Romney, with Florida respondents comprising a significant share of Latinos in battleground states.



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http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2012/10/01/wave-6-tracking-poll-obama-widens-lead-nationally-romney-closer-in-battleground-states/

Mitt is toast!

[Lucy Goosey]

1. But Ann Romney told them they needed to get over their biases and vote for Mitt

I thought for sure that would swing the Latino vote Romney's way!

[11 Bravo]

13. And Queen Ann doesn't understand why, "Hey, Paco, vote for my husband and then get your ass ...

back behind that lawnmower" hasn't done the trick.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Do They Indicate What Percentage Of The Electorate Latinos Will Comprise?

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[ProSense]

3. In 2008, it was about 9 percent.

That's a lot of votes.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. In The Battleground Poll They Have It At 6%

I made a thread about it.

Those three percent off the Latino participation shaves the president's lead by about one percent.

[ProSense]

5. I suspect that's why there are different charts for national and battleground

Still, participation is not going to impact the percentage shown on the battleground chart.

Where's the link to the thread?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021444991

[ProSense]

7. That's a different poll. n/t

[ProSense]

8. Media misreporting

POLL: With Latinos, Romney Gains In Swing States, Obama Gains Nationally
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/poll-latinos-romney-gains-swing-states-obama-gains/story

The confusion is the first line of the press release (see OP), which states:

This week’s impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll found slight gains for presidential candidate Mitt Romney in battleground states with 33% certain to or thinking about voting for him.

I took that to mean compared to the national numbers, but then again, I read the entire release.

The battleground results represent the first polling data among Latinos across all battleground states issued in 2012. impreMedia/Latino Decisions tracking poll will release a second wave of battleground results from their October polling data in future weeks.

[flamingdem]

9. How's that mini-me Romney speaking Espanol campaign ad

working out for ya Mitt?

[pinboy3niner]

10. Quoi?

[flamingdem]

11. you no believe?

[pinboy3niner]

12. Let's just say that not everyone is impressed...

[flamingdem]

14. lol we need to keep Kayla around for

the debates!