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highplainsdem

(48,980 posts)
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:36 AM Oct 2012

Latino Decisions: Obama 73, Romney 21 with Hispanic voters [View all]

Source: Politico

Barack Obama's 52-point lead in the new Latino Decisions tracking poll matches his widest advantage of the year:

Overall, Obama has the support of 73% of all Latino registered voters, compared to 21% who favor Romney. The 52-point gap matches the largest gap among Latinos this year, also found in the October 1 tracking poll.

For the ten weeks the impreMedia-Latino Decisions poll has been taken the most important issue for Latinos consistently has been the economy and the latest release revealed that Romney and the Republican party have been unable to convince Latino voters that they will be better at improving the it. Seventy-three percent of Latino voters trust Obama and the Democrats to make the right decisions to improve the economy compared to only 18% that trust Romney and the Republicans.


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Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/latino-decisions-obama-romney-with-hispanic-voters-147565.html



More from the Latino Decisions site:

http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2012/10/29/8-percent-of-latinos-have-already-voted-early-enthusiasm-up-again-in-final-week/

The latest impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll shows that Latinos are more enthusiastic and more likely to vote than ten weeks ago when the initial poll was fielded. Forty-five percent of Latino voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting in 2012 compared to 2008. That number is up from 37% from ten weeks ago when the initial impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll was fielded. Furthermore, 87% of Latino voters say they are almost certain they will vote on November 6th, which includes 8% of Latino voters have already voted. In 2008, 84% of Latino registered voters cast a ballot according to Census statistics.

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For the ten weeks the impreMedia-Latino Decisions poll has been taken the most important issue for Latinos consistently has been the economy and the latest release revealed that Romney and the Republican party have been unable to convince Latino voters that they will be better at improving the it. Seventy-three percent of Latino voters trust Obama and the Democrats to make the right decisions to improve the economy compared to only 18% that trust Romney and the Republicans.

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