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Subscribe to RSSPresident Barack Obama has his largest lead in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo oversample of Hispanic voters: 50 points.
Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney among Latino registered voters, 70 percent to 20 percent, and with an equal margin among likely Latino voters, 71 percent to 21 percent. That is an increase of 15 points from August, and outpaces Obama’s 2008 split (67 percent to 31 percent) over John McCain.
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President Barack Obama visits the Hoover Dam during in Boulder City, Nevada October 2, 2012. Obama is in Nevada to prepare for the presidential debate on Wednesday.
Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the poll with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, calls the 70 percent figure a “significant” and “cautionary note” to Romney and the Republican Party, and suggests that losing the Latino vote by that margin would be difficult to overcome.
Related: NBC/WSJ poll: Obama leads in Ohio; statistical tie in Va., Fla.
It appears that Romney's comments that “47 percent” of Americans are dependent on government took a toll on his standing with Hispanics. Romney’s favorability score has cratered with the group, with his negatives hitting an all-time high. Fifty-three percent now say they have a negative impression of Romney and just 23 percent say they have a positive one. That 30-point difference is 17 points worse than in August.
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What’s more, 61 percent of Latinos say what they've heard about Romney in past couple of weeks has given them a less favorable impression of him. That's 20 points worse than when same question was asked in July.
An equal number (61 percent) say they would be uncomfortable with Romney as president. And almost four-in-10 (38 percent) say they would be “not at all” comfortable with Romney sitting in the White House.
By contrast, Obama enjoys a 74 percent to 17 percent favorability rating, an all-time high. He holds a similarly strong approval rating of 73 percent – also a record high. That’s up 11 points from August.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd previews the first presidential debate and shares the results of the latest NBC News/ WSJ poll.
‘47 percent’
Specifically on the “47 percent” comments, a majority of Latinos (55 percent) said they resulted in a more negative impression of the GOP nominee.
During the surreptitiously recorded video of Romney at a fundraiser, he said 47 percent of the country, who didn’t pay income tax, were “victims” who would never vote for him. But he also said talked about his father being born in Mexico to American parents and joked about what a political advantage it would be if he were actually of Mexican descent.
“Had he been born of Mexican parents,” Romney said of his father, “I'd have a better shot of winning this, but he was unfortunately born of Americans living in Mexico. They'd lived there for a number of years. And – I mean I say that jokingly, but it'd be helpful to be Latino.”
Romney also acknowledged that he and the GOP are having difficulty winning over Latinos – a problem that could hobble the party.
“We're having a much harder time with Hispanic voters,” he said. “And if the Hispanic voting bloc becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African-American voting bloc has in the past, why we're – we're in trouble as a party and, I think, as a nation.”
The “47 percent” comments also were mentioned when Latino respondents were asked what hesitations they had about each candidate.
“His 47 percent of Americans speech,” said a self-declared 35-44 year-old Hispanic male from Texas.
“I disagree with his comment about 47% of Americans,” said another 18-24 Hispanic male from Arizona.
“That 47 percent are dependent on the government, even though we work,” said a 35-44 Hispanic male from California.
“I feel like he’s disconnected from the rest of us,” said a 25-34 year-old Hispanic woman from Texas. “He’s led a privileged life. Not everybody has had that.”
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Others said they feared Romney would favor the wealthy and give tax cuts at the expense of other things, like education. “They wouldn’t be able to keep enough teachers hired,” said an 18-24-year-old male from California.
By contrast, when asked about Obama’s "you didn't build that" remarks -- which the Romney campaign has used against the president to paint him as anti-business – 56 percent said the comments gave them a more favorable impression of the incumbent president.
Preferring Obama on the issues
Latino voters also favor Obama by big margins on every issue – from immigration, health care, and Medicare to foreign policy, China, taxes, the economy, and the budget deficit.
On immigration, for example, Latinos say Obama would be better than Romney by a 66 to 14 margin, up from the 55 to 16 advantage Obama had in July.
Optimism on the rise
Another overarching factor fueling the president’s rise is, like in polling of other groups, that Latino optimism has increased. A majority now say the country is headed in the right direction (55 percent), up 12 points from a month ago.
A majority (50 percent), for the first time in the oversample, also say the economy will get better in the next year.
Enthusiasm ticks up, but still off from 2008 levels
With Hispanics favoring Obama by such wide margins, the key for his re-election team will be getting them to show up at the polls. Latino intensity was down through the summer months, but there was a significant uptick in this poll.
Last month, just 61 percent of Hispanics said they were either an “8,” “9,” or “10” (out of 10) when it came to how interested they were in this election. But now 77 percent are self-identifying as those numbers.
There was a 10-point jump (to 59 percent) among those saying they are 9s or 10s, the highest-interest group.
Still, those numbers lag behind other groups and behind where Hispanics were at this time in 2008. In September 2008, 88 percent said they were at least an 8. And 76 percent said they were at least a 9.
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Obamacare, You tube has a great video that sums it up in one sentence.
Is that one sentence too complicated for you to communicate?
upset-1557697
Do you just look to insult everyone?
Heres one for you. Are you to lazy to look for yourself or perhaps that is too complicated for you. I'd guess that your just too lazy and want others to do it for you, typical.
i'm going to vote third party. both these parties are already bought and paid for. they can't be trusted. i'd rather vote for a medical doctor who's running mate has worked feverishly with poor and homeless people rather than waste my vote on two candidates who don't care about you, me, or any of us.
Green Party: Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala 2012!
Those wondering how some of the right-wingers evident here tick, might consider the following:
Since ASPD is a spectrum disorder, it is difficult to precisely quantify its incidence. However, some believe a significant percentage of our population suffers from it to some degree.
That's a pretty good description of OWS...
It wasn't just about Katrina, it SHOWED his racism against everybody else. Pay attention!!!!!! You all talk a lot of trash on here, but what have any of you gained out of the last 4 years that a lot of other people don't see? Have you not heard that African amercians and latinos still have the highest rate of unemployment, but they will still reelect him. Hmmmmm something very screwy going on to me.
Bruno - are you trying to make the argument that Latinos and blacks would be better off under a Romney Presidency? There are very good reasons these folks won't vote for him.
upset - Believe it or not EVERYONE in America is much more influenced by the state of the economy than all of the speeches, and pandering in the world.
If you think blacks and latinos have prospered as Obama has failed the economy you need to look at some of the statistics on declining earnings and wealth.
I remember the "Clown Car" debates of the GOP this year. Fry them and shoot them is what they said. I guess Mittens "self deportation" didn't go over so well either. How do you expect them to vote? Trash someone and then act surprised when they don't support you? The GOP is delusional!
Perhaps the Latino voting block are more intelligent than the white voting block. Romney dismissed 47% of the population of the entire country. That includes white folks in trailer parks all over America - yet they will go right out and vote for the idiot who claims "It is not my job to worry about those people."
"Obama leads Romney by 50 points with Latinos"
Of course he does, he also has the endorsements of Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez, and Felipe Calderon... everyone who dislikes America loves Obama.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Are you talking about the one that NewsforDumbFux got punked with last night?
What a brilliant strategy from the right wing nitwits - bring up Hurricane Katrina again! lmao
Relax Maury, it will all be over for you in a few short weeks!
The country will move forward, Willard will be nothing more than a bad
dreamjoke, and you can continue to stew in your hatred!Well, that's one point we agree on..it will be over in a few short weeks.....no hatred here...watch the video again and see the perpetuation of hatred at it's finest. You would be better served to operate on fact as opposed to emotion that has always been Dem's problem...always emotion and never fact. By the way...I do not support either candidate...I just deal in facts....nothing more...nothing less. I would love to be a fly on your wall in November...
Best Of Luck
They don't want to see the video. It paints Obama for what he is. A divider who is seperating our country by race and wealth.
Ya Jane, okay... Take off the Coulture 3D glasses will you.
That video is old news. It was never controversial to begin with.
Liberals and Moderate Democrats don't care. This is red meat for the right wing base, and you're just going to alienate the Independents and push them to Obama.
In the words of Obama's preacher of over 20 years the one he thanks for being his friend, counselling him etc...
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.( Obamas net worth 11 million)
Chip Girouard-6021679
I'm entitled to my view as are you. Why only insults from you?
Re-Elect Obama 2012
The video may be old news but the clips out there now have NEVER been seen before in public. It shows your president trying to divided based on color. You can accept that if you like, I'd rather not.
There is nothing in that video that supports your claim the President is trying to divide by color.
Even if the video has never been released in full, there is still nothing new there. Everyone knows these issues already.
Obama video reveals everything ... that we already knew
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-video-reveals-everything-that-we-already-knew-20121002,0,2477029.story
That is your opinion. Mine is different I believe when you say New York didn't have to pay, Florida didn't have to pay but you New Orleans you have to pay. Why is that?
All with an southern accent I never heard him use before and can't help wondering where it came from.
People of all colors and many nationalities died in New York. People of all colors died or were affected by hurricane damage in Florida.
People of all colors died or were affected by Katrina damage in New Orleans.
You know he was speaking to a group of Black ministers right? He was playing to the crowd, pretty basic speech-making 101.
Funny how Bush loved to pretend he was a Texan with his Texas accent and working down there on the Ranch when he was born in New Haven, Connecticutt, raised in Maine and attended Yale.
He was showing his true colors. The great Rev Wright preached to him for over 20 years and Obama claims him as a friend and counselor.
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” Rev Wright
That's what your president believes too.
As I said, people of all colors died or were affected by Katrina damage in New Orleans. The Bush Administration did not give equal assistance to New Orleans.
What the actions of the Bush Administration have to do with Rev. Wright, I have no idea.
You take away the prompter and he can't hide his true self.
YES people of all colors died in all those events, but your president doesn't get that. He sees white in NY and Fl and black in New Orleans and plays it to his benefit.
George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in selected regions of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi on Saturday, the 27th, two days before the hurricane made landfall
Within four days of Katrina’s landfall on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, then-President George W. Bush signed a $10.4 billion aid package and ordered 7,200 National Guard troops to the region. A few days later, he requested — and Congress approved — an additional $51.8 billion in aid.
"What the video does show is Obama at one point questioning why relief for Hurricane Katrina was conditioned on local matching payments under something called the Stafford Act, when New York and Florida made no such payments after the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Andrew, respectively. This is also not new, since Obama already had raised the issue of matching payments at a (not exactly top-secret) congressional hearing earlier in 2007.
Some critics have theorized that New Orleans got less federal support because of its largely African American population. But the full tape shows Obama addressed that point directly, saying people had asked him “was race the reason” for the inadequate response. “I said ‘No, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.’”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-video-reveals-everything-that-we-already-knew-20121002,0,2477029.story
Again that is your opinion.
Are you aware that Stafford Act Immunity had been giving to Katrina clean up days before Obama gave that speech?
Are you also aware that Obama voted against said Immunity?????
You realize that the 10% immunity was finally granted 2 years after the hurricane?
Obama voted against HR2206 because it included funding for the Iraq war with no timeline for withdrawal.
Obama wanted a clean bill for Katrina relief.
He voted against it!!
He tried to refuse them the help they needed then blame others for it.
It's what he does best.
The Latino's want Obama then let's give him to Mexico
viknat, all Latinos and Latinas live in Mexico?
I did not know that...
Actually, that post registers on the racist meter.
Chip - Who said "all"? Are you saying fewer Latinos live in Mexico than the U.S.?
We did not know that...
Actually, your weak attempt to create an argument of racism is promoting division of America.
The truth is latinos are disproportionately the recipients of our governments theft of peoples money which is then labelled Earned Income Credit ! legalized theft and redistribution of other folks money coupled with huge amounts of food stamps , compounded with obammis open border policy insure the latino vote! The easily bought off latinos will eventually suffer the fate all of us will when socialism fails and they will have neither government handouts or jobs! I hope I live to scream, I TOLD YOU SO!
I don't think that there are enough old white men and racists to get Romney elected as Obama leads in every other demographic group there is.
FACTS:
Republican Party in Florida is doing it again, voter fraud! Now they’re doing this in all 50 states.
They buy votes for $200 each. But what is $200 to a millionaire?
That’s how Bush and his son got to become president. There were thousands of voter ballots in a dumpster.
The Republican Party of Florida gave more than a million dollars to buy register voters to vote Republican. Florida GOP fires firm linked to Romney after suspicious voter forms reported.
The Republican Party has been dead for years. So you ask why it is still around today. Its owners are millionaires who have employees in all 50 states. There job is to tell people lies who can not think for themselves and if that doesn’t work they just buy their vote.
My grandfather said to me, don’t be a Democrat, don’t be a Republican, Just be an American and think for yourself. America is where Freedom was born and if you go to school, work hard you can live a good life or even become President of this United States of America.
The greatest place on Earth. God, Family, America, to fight for what is right and above all, true morals. This is what it is to be American. Please get your dictionary and look up the meaning for each word in this paragraph below. Why do I ask you to do this? Because this is what America is all about.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
This is the job description of everyone in our Government. America is a democratic country, not a communist county.
Did you see the video out of ohio? Where the group of people are rallying for Obama because he gave them all a free phone and Romney didn't give them nothing, so he sucks!!
Did you know the cell phone program was created by the Bush Administration and that it is not funded by tax payer dollars?
Did you know this had nothing to do with that program. Just Obama out buying votes with free stuff.
You claimed in #59.1 that they were rallying for him because of free phones!!
Changing the subject because you lost the argument huh?
You claimed in #59.1 that they were rallying for him because of free phones!!
Changing the subject because you lost the argument huh?
Where was the subject changed? Read slower maybe you'll catch it next time huh?
I've grown bored with you. You can continue following my posts and putting in your negative 2 cents if you like.
50 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahaha.....no way will Mittens ever win with those kinds of numbers. No wonder his campaign gets more desperate by the day. He sees the writing on the wall, and the writing says............. LOSER!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
And to think he's down by about 85 points among blacks. The Myth wants to run a white America. This isn't 1950 any more Willard.
Just for fun. Sing-a-long: Zinger Romney presidential debate, that's all Romney will have to say. He has no clue what's going with America today. He thinks the 47 % is doing OK. Please Mitt Romney, please go away.
OBAMA 4 MORE YEARS!
Hell NO, no more Obama. No more Socialism, no more free give aways of Tax Payers money, no more lies, and no more redistributing other people's income, Obama please go away.
Take Back America
Romney/Ryan
stclaire, here's your moment to shine...
What socialism are you talking about? Government's role in providing you with clean air, clean water, safe foods, safe skies to fly in, roads to travel on, schools and teachers to educate your kids, energy subsidies, a strong military, safe drugs, hospital care, SS, medicare and medicade, etc...
Please explain "no more socialism"... Hell, explain what you think socialism is!
I doubt stclaire could define socialism. He/she is just repeating talking points from the Sean Hannity Show.
And what freaking planet does the 23% of the Hispancis that WILL vote for him live on? Probably that small little group that moved up in the workforce & now think theyre white. So white ppl look out because 23% of hispanics would like to be you. At least thats my take on it.
I'm sure that also had something to do with George Zimmermann shooting that kid. He thought in the eyes of a closed white society he would be looked upon favorably. Hispanics need to get it out of their head something is going to be handed to them. Because every other ethnic group fought for whatever they had.
Are these the only smart Americans able to vote their own working class intrest.
No kidding, look how stupid the lower-middle class white people look after fighting for Mitt Romney's continued tax breaks, while he plans on raising theirs and destroying their chance for affordable tuition, health care and decent wages.
terry - "Are these the only smart Americans able to vote their own working class intrest."
Obviously not, as Joe said yesterday the last 4 years have buried the working class. They are voting for self-interest, but it is racially based not economically based.
Those numbers are a complete lie, all of America knows certain papers and polls are on the take for Obama, and where does Obama stand with AMERICANS ? Answer at the bottom of the polls. Americans can and will go to the polls and down grade Obama the very same way he earned America her very first down grade in her history when Americans can and will vote Obama out of office in a very FAST & FURIOUS WAY.
Take Back America
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So Latino Citizens aren't Americans?
stclaire, now you're re-writing history... It was the Republicans holding the spending cap hostage that caused the downgrade.
Get your facts straight otherwise you look foolish.
If America needs to be taken back from someone it needs to be taken back from big business and special interests.
FACTS: Obama had a bill to put millions of Americans to work repairing America’s all transportation system, roads, and highways. America’s drinking water system and draining systems is over 80 years old and need to be replaced.
America electric system is WAY out of date. Like over 100 years!
School systems and I can keep going on and on. 5.3 million Jobs for 20 years or more! That would have put unemployment to 4.3 % today. THAT’S A FACT!
But the Republicans said NO!
But the republicans would pass a bill to run an oil pipe line cross America from Canada to Texas. But to run that oil pipe line you would have to move 100,000 Americans families, plus farmers, public parks and wildlife. All for oil and up to 20,000 part time jobs for 5 to 10 years.
OBAMA 4 MORE YEARS
GetReal, and don't forget the veterans back to work bill. They killed that too.
Yes, the right loves America (like a Grizzley likes salmon).
Time to make way, WHITE PEOPLE!
I hear you still might have a chance in Canada or Australia!
Hmmm Willard is losing to President Obama by 50 Points among Latino’s, 30
Points among women, 80 Points among blacks and 1 point among white registered
voters?!?! I think it’s safe to say Americans are through with “Chuckles”
Romney and his boy wonder, Lyin Ryan! But hey Mitt look on the bright side you won’t
have to show Any More Tax Returns!
Buh-Bye Willard! :)
Hmmm losing to President Obama by 50 among Latino’s, 30
Points among women, 80 Points among blacks and 1 point among white registered
voters?!?! I think it’s safe to say Americans are through with “Chuckles”
Romney and his boy wonder Lyin Ryan! But hey Mitt look on the bright side you won’t
have to show Any More Tax Returns!
Buh-Bye Willard! :)
"Obama leads Romney by 50 points with Latinos" only because they all voted twice and some of the deceased ones got three votes
dissapointed, facvts/evidence please. Or are you just spoutin' nonsense?
That would be utter nonsense.
Breaking news:
Ramenie ahead in the obese pasty white rich old man category. But can that sustain him?
True Americans can and will vote for Mitt Romney.
Take Back America
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No one believes these polls any more than they believe the Lair in Chief.
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FACTS:
Do you know why Congress will not raise taxes on the rich?
Because they are the rich who’s a tax will go up. That’s why. Think of it this way.
Would you like it if your boss asks you to take a pay cut? So why should we ask are milliner representatives to take a pay cut by paying the same amount of taxes as we do?
It’s just not fair for us to ask them to do the right thing. People! We as Americans pay them to representative are best inters. Not there’s or there milliner friends like Romney.
I think if they will not put it to a vote. Then we the American People should do it. We do have the right as Americans to this vote on this.
OBAMA 4 MORE YEARS!
NO more Obama, the Liar in Chief has to go in a very FAST & FURIOUS WAY.
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Obama has gone against the wishes of Americans to give illegals amnesty and pledges to leave them alone if they stay out of trouble. By not enforcing the LAW he is buying votes from every potential voter that has an illegal in their family or plans to sneak more in. It amazes me how democratic voters can't see the duplicity of this 2 faced charlatan.
Mic, that really should read the past administrations for decades...
But please, put it all on the current administration and ignore the facts of history.
Obama blames everything on everyone else too Chip. I'm sure you'll be voting for him since you're birds of a feather. As to history, name me one President that ever granted illegals amnesty. You don't know what you're talking about.
Facts: Obama has been in office less than a week. The banks had no money, Wall Street was going down hill, GM was going down hill, AIG, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury was missing one trillion dollars.
What happening to all that money? "Abuse", "financial rape", "theft" and "crime"
Why were the banks giving loans to people who clearly could not afford it?
Ongoing financial crisis and recession which began in late 2007 continues with many calling it the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s causing house prices to decline, and unemployment to increase.
In 2009 governments in the US and around the world pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system and into the economies hoping to avert another Great Depression and by the end of 2009 although unemployment had continued to increase.
What happen? Bush and the republican party! That’s what happens when the republican party is in control. The everyday Americans who make $250,000 or less pays ten times more in taxes than Americans who make $270,000,000 or more.
Its should be put to a vote by the everyday Americans if the people who make millions each years to pay higher taxes.
OBAMA 4 MORE YEARS
What's the difference between a Klan rally and a GOP rally? Capes + Hoods.