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Subscribe to RSSLess than six months before November’s presidential election, President Obama enjoys a sizable lead over Mitt Romney among Latino voters, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll of Latino respondents.
The challenge for the Obama campaign, however, will be turning out these voters, who aren’t as interested in the election as all other Americans are.
Larry Downing / Reuters
President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference after the 2012 NATO Summit May 21 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
In this survey, Obama holds a 34-point lead over Romney among registered Latino voters, 61 to 27 percent. In 2008, according to the exit polls, Obama defeated McCain among this key voting bloc, 67 to 31 percent.
In addition, Obama’s approval rating among all Latino adults stands at 61 percent (compared with 48 percent of all Americans in the new NBC/WSJ poll), and approval of his handling of the economy is at 54 percent (versus 43 percent overall).
Meanwhile, Romney is struggling with Latinos, the poll shows. Just 26 percent view him positively, while 35 percent see him in a negative light. By comparison, Obama’s positive/negative score among Latinos is 58/23 percent.
(Click here for a PDF of this NBC/WSJ/Telemundo poll.)
What’s more, this demographic group is more optimistic about the economy and the nation’s direction than the general population. Forty percent of Latinos believe the country is headed in the right direction (versus 33 percent of all Americans in the NBC/WSJ poll), and 46 percent of them say what they’ve read and heard recently makes them feel more optimistic about the economy (versus 42 percent).
But here’s a troubling sign for the Obama campaign: Latinos aren’t as excited about the upcoming election. A combined 68 percent of Latino voters say they are highly interested in the upcoming election (registering an “8”,”9”, or “10” on a 10-point scale). That’s compared with 81 percent of all voters who express high interest.
This NBC/WSJ/Telemundo survey -- an oversample from the just-released NBC/WSJ poll -- was conducted May 16-21 of 300 adults who identified themselves as coming from a Latino or Spanish-speaking background. That sample includes 119 interviews that were conducted in Spanish.
The overall margin of error for this survey is plus-minus 5.7 percentage points. The margin of error for the 188 registered Latino voters survey is plus-minus 7.2 percentage points.
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illeagals voting for an illeagal...how ironic
It's illegal, not "illeagal." You spelled it incorrectly twice so it's not an accidental typo. How typically Republican is that?
you mean you didn't notice he also spelled Texas wrong? LMAO!!
How the hell do you spell your own state wrong!! I live in Knew Gearsey
He claims the correct spelling was taken. I, for one, believe him. He is an obvious intellect. So smart he thinks illegals move here to swing our election, not get a job.
TEXSAS - the best that Texas education is allowed to produce ever since Dubby was governor. What an embarrassment to us all. The pathetic thing is that he does not even know what we are talking about! Watch, he will just continue to drool for several more posts, then he will fall off his mower and sleep for a while.
I don't believe him. He could have abbreviated, TX, or other options that don't make you look stupid. I think he spelled it like he says it. Sounds like Texsas. Spelling not his strong suit, posting political nonsense is.
Spades...you are so full of crap...there are millions of Hispanics or Latino whatever you may called them who are legal citizens living in and contributing to this country...so what are you talking about????....well nonsense.... It is American men the ones that doesn't fit anymore the cast of ....the land of the free and the home of the brave......assh---!!!!
Americans are the only ones who had messed their country...you made ridiculous laws you are not willing to enforce...no wonder...
lets import some more votes for obama bin laden..
Sorry...Obama had Osama killed. Guess you hadn't heard.
Told you so! LOL
i am really surprised 81pct of people are highly interested in the election. all said and done, the diffference this election will make will be less than $100 / year in taxes and benefits for 99pct of americans.
Still stumbling through it you insecure @!$%#in slob??
I'm sorry you have to keep recruiting a rock hard environment around me to construct the text book profile (and all that goes into maintaining it just to cement over an enhanced interrogation that no one would have ever believed anyway) but some risk is required instead of setting the precedence that you can murder anyone you want in the most horrific of ways with your new tactics that are psychological torture as my family (with their round robin of newly developed organic illnesses) is forced to helplessly watch...
Just take a step back Mr. President and look in the mirror because if you don't go to hell it does not exist but Omega force proved otherwise...
Doing a great job too Durbin because the Constitution has basically ended but to save these slobs reputation the most brutal murders are being performed using a military grade satellite...
After all I went through to not even let the meds work you sick @!$%#in slobs...
Rich - Contact Mackie - she needs you and wants you to come to Wells, Main where the gays are invading her town - it's all part of the conspiracy you keep talking about.
Latinos voting???? That's a real laugh getter.
They do in Colorado and Texas and New Mexico.
Marco Rubio tried effortlessly today on CNN (smoke-scream!!) to sell a bridge to nowhere on immigration>>>>Let me re-assure & re-affirm all immigrants whether legal or illegal (America is a nation of immigrants)... President Obama policies on immigration is your safest & only bet. Mitt Romney guarantee will enforce self-deportations or electric-fences or moats fill with alligators or some other draconian laws.
Hispanics know foolish TEApublican trash talk when they see it. Since the GOP evidently doesn't want the Latino vote, the Democratic party will GLADLY accept their support.
I, a non-affiliated moderate white man, will join them AND the child-bearing-age women that the GOP scare away with their EXTREME policies.
We will vote OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 and ANY non-GOP candidates down the ballot.
Not this Latino. My parents immigrated legally, I was born here I do not need amnesty.
I need a lower taxes and a future for my children something Obama is incapable of delivering.
We need a President who knows America is the Greatest nation on Earth and that it needs to remain so not that it needs to be lowered to the level of other nations why else did my parents struggle to come here.
Well, okay. If you see a better man, vote for him. That is how it works. Don't hold your breath in the meantime.
LA RAZA -- check out their agenda -- nuff said.
Hello Latino male here.
Obama is a bum he exported 2,000 assault rifles to Mexico and there are buckets of Mexican blood on his doorstep and he refuses to fire Eric Holder.
OMG
OBAMA MUST GO
Victor;
Our properly elected POTUS DID NO SUCH THING!
You have drunk the TEApublican Kool-Aid and fallen for their lies.
Not knowing the real, true facts is one foolish idea!
It is good that talk is cheap or some of us would be bankrupted long ago.Please display some respect for our President & the office, thank you kindly.
It would be better if o'bama would show a little respect for the people of America and our constitution. He also needs to show respect for the giver of life and liberty(no it's not the government)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, Texan for truth, tell us exactly what Obama has done that shows disrespect for the Constitution. Surely you are not blaming Obama for the recent illegal, legislative actions by the SCOTUS declaring corporations to have equal rights to the people? Or blaming him for his valor in stating that gay people are actually people too. Surely!
You have no idea what the word "truth" means.
Why wouldn't they? He's all about hand-outs, entitlements and Robin Hood too.
You know, that is really curious. I can look out my window and see a bunch of roofers and deck builders working on a remodel. I can hear the Mexican music...but maybe they just couldn't get that handout.
Most Hispanics work hard, Gregory. That is just a silly thing to say.
I call BS, I am a contractor, I am around hispanics all the time, and I have yet to meet one who likes Obama, most of them despise Obama.
You probably are hiring illegals...who are not to thrilled with the way he is sending people back right and left. Hispanics who can vote go huge for Obama. Huge.
Same here in Texas. All the Americans of hispanic decendants I work around and was raised with deplore O'bama!
TFT - only while they are playing you for a fool. Behind your back they are laughing at you and voting for Obama so they have a chance at making a free living rather than being slaves as you would rather they be. LOL
It is amazing how this cohort of 188 hispanics can predict how millions of hispanics will vote. Great job, NBC. You can sure make Obama look good in so many ways. Just keep those creative writers working, NBC. I am sure you have a million other ideas to promote Obama.
Is this article talking about Mexicans(who can't vote in America) are native born Americans who happen to be of hispanic linage???? There is a big difference you know! The Americans I know of hispanic linage care nothing for o'bama are his policys nor his socilistic behavior. A Mexican lives in Mexico, if they migrate here legally and become citizens they are no longer Mexicans they are Americans!!!!! So what is this silly racial article about anyway? Mexicans can't vote!!! Americans can vote!
Hey TEX, "Socialistic", nice touch. Whatever would the Right do if they couldn't impune the "Americanness" of their opponents? And hey, why stop there? How about Commie, Bolshevik, Markist while your at it. That's about all the Right knows how to do.
8 years of that imbecile Dubya proved one thing for sure, the GOP which boasts of fiscal conservancy is in reality the biggest spending, most irresponsible party in this nation. Don't take my word for it. Go and take a look at what Bush did the deficit with his UNFUNDED wars, UNFUNDED Medicare drug plan and of course his irresponsible tax cuts. And you wonder why we're broke?
Here's a clue for you. If you plan on collecting Social Security and using Medicare in your later years, guess what? That makes you a "socialist". You want to live in a purely capitalistic America? Take a look back at the early years of the 20th Century when Robber Barons ruled the nation and called all the shots until a Republican (a TRUE Republican) Teddy Roosevelt broke up Standard Oil, the railroads and many other businesses that had a stranglehold on the nation. That's not the American I want to live in.
BTW, TFT, dont you let us commies catch you driving on pavement paid for by the socialist system or calling the cops or depending on the fire department to put out the fire in your recliner when you drop your cigar. Can you say, "I am an idiot!" and recognize what you said?
How in the hell did brain-dead become cool?
"Creative writing" and Mexicans and dead people and rigging and fraud, should just about do it for them... Now to get Obama and the leaders of both houses of Congress to act normal, as if nothing has happened.
How bout you share with us some links to document all this vote rigging and "fraud" you're spouting off about, huh?
FYI fella, the Bush administration had their justice dept launch and in depth long term investigation into "voter fraud" and you know what they found??? A whole lot of nothing, that's what. Voter fraud is just one of the new mantras of the Right, to energize their supporters and spew lies and disinformation like yours.
These people are capable of thought, very capable in fact.
How can they back a candidate who only thinks of them when he needs their vote?
DAVE: I presume you are referring to Obama? If so, can you tell me one thing the GOP has ever done for ANY minority???
And why you would accuse Obama of only thinking of them when he wants their vote, merely shows your complete ignorance of Obama and Democrats in general. Democrats has always been far more welcoming to new immigrants and expecially those with darker skin. Sounds to me like you're merely a political hack for the GOP. I suggest you look at the facts some time.
So it is true then that by not enforcing the American law and by refusing to protect our borders and selling guns to the drug cartels Obama has bought the Latinos. Wow I used to think a lot more of Latinos. 40,000 Mexicans dead in drug wars that holder has sold guns to the drug lords to kill. except for the Blacks no one has suffered more than the Latinos under Obama. So there you have it Latinos for sell.
WADE: Guess what dimwit? Obama has turned back more illegals in 3 years than Dubya did in 8. Guess that doesn't fit into your "hate Obama" narrative. Please, don't let facts get in the way.
And it's so nice to hear of your concern for Blacks. Very touching. That makes you the first Righty to give a rats ass about minorities.
And lastly, you are aware of course, that the whole gun program was not started by Obama and Holder but rather, began on Bush's watch.
How bout getting yourself an education so you don't keep embarrassing yourself and showing your stunning level of ignorance.
This is probably the very last time that the U.S. will have an opportunity to elect a fiscally conservative president. The influx of illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants into the U.S. has fostered the creation of a gigantic nanny state. With more than 70 percent of blacks and more than 50 percent of Latino children being born out of wedlock, Democrat candidates will pander to these groups so that the government can pick up the tab for absent fathers. The U.S. has now turned the corner and will sink to third-world status within a generation. Average IQ in the U.S. is sinking rapidly, and the ship cannot be turned around. For a good look at what is in store for the U.S., take a good look at Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina. All three countries are basket cases.
ANGUS: You mean like how Dubya was "fiscally conservative"???
8 years of Bush and 6 with a GOP Congress proved once and for all that the notion of Republicans being fiscally cautious is a complete and utter joke. Just as how you view Reagan with rapture when in reality he DOUBLED the size of the Federal governement and drastically ran up the defict.
What Bush did is much the same. He dramatically increased "Big Government", spent like there was no tomorrow and what do we have to show for it? Did the GOP speak out when Bush decided to start two wars AND NOT BOTHER FUNDING THEM??? What about his UNFUNDED Medicare Drug program? And what about his irresponsible tax cuts, DURING WARTIME NO LESS. Complete, utter insanity. Instead of taking that money and rebuilding our infrastructure, education, and yes, health care, we pissed it away on two stupid wars.
So please, don't ever preach about fiscal responsibilty on here again. Your crowd had their chance and blew it bigtime.
Ozzie,
Big spending Republicans have heretofore also been complicit in growth of the debt. Obama has taken Dubya's spending policies and multiplied them four fold. More debt has been incurred during Obama's 3+ years in office than during all other presidents combined. So I suppose you think that the U.S. can shoulder the financial burden imposed by another 4 years of Mr. Hussein. We need a leader who will dramatically shrink the size and cost of government. I deal with the U.S. Patent Office on a daily basis. During Obama's tenure, fees have escalated dramatically. In fact, the USPTO exemplifies everything that is wrong with the federal government. The problem is basically the government's war against wage earners and the massive and unsustainable expansion of entitlement programs.
Angus,
It will take more than 3 years to fix what your hero, Dubbie, screwed up in 8. It is much easier to screw up an economy than to improve it. Much of the money committed by the government during the last 3 years was a legacy from Bush/Cheney including adding the costs of the two stupidly run wars to visible status.
Under Obama, getting bin Laden cost us a few million. Under Bush, a failed attempt to get bin Laden cost us trillions. Can you see what "fiscal conservative" administrations get us?
Expecting Obama to correct the mess with a legislative body of "NO" exposes the political nature of your position. All that intelligent, patriotic Americans can hope for is that people like you will choose no vote to a "NO" vote. Please stay home in November, your type has done enough damage to America already.
Latinos are part of the 60 million Catholics in America and their Church, a large number of the Bishops are suing Obama in a massive law suit, for violations against their religious freedoms because of Obamacare.. Do the Latinos love and support Obama more than their Churches, Holy Bishops and life long beliefs and teachings, because Obama is unholy and is just cunning and is bribing them by offering total amnesty and instant citizenship and easy access to welfare, food stamps for those uneducated illegal ones ? Looks that way........
BTW VET, you must hate Reagan too? I mean, he did grant amnesty to millions of illegals back in his day. Guess he was just buying votes, huh???
I do not know about anybody in this post... but as Independent... I will NEVER again vote for ANY Republican until they are back to being... FOR THE PEOPLE... and NOT ... for the Corporation...!!! and also field a Candidate that is not running for his own AGENDA!!!!
Catholics are like folks at a buffet. They take a little of this, they leave a little of that.
They ain't mindless robots, pal.
Latinos, as do most all Americans, honor the U.S. Constitution more than any church.
Obama is non-holy? You're a nutjob, buddy, a real honest to god nutjob. Keep posting, it's great stuff.
Nice Try NAM VET but that ain't gonna fly.
Well over 90% of American Catholics use birth control and yet they still consider themselves belonging to the Church. And BTW, that very same Church you are referring to has also accused the GOP and specifically the Paul Ryan budget as being "UnChristian" because of how it screws the poor and working class people.
You see, it works both ways and when it comes down to brass tacks, the vast majority of Lationos will vote Democratic. Besides, we've got Eva Longoria working the Latino vote and directly supporting Obama. LOL Eat your heart out fella.
Why am I not surprised? They all know that after the election, Obama will have more flexibility to grant them amnesty.
Grant who amnesty?
We're talking about American citizens.
My goodness.