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Obama makes big strides with Latino voters
Sen. Barack Obama, who struggled to attract Hispanic voters in the Democratic primary, now has a commanding lead with the group, according to a study released Thursday.
“The support for Obama is quite broad-based,” said Susan Minushkin, the center’s deputy director.
During the Democratic primary race, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York beat Obama with Latino voters by nearly a 2 to 1 margin.
The Pew survey showed that most of the Hillary voters — 76 percent — now say they are inclined to vote for Obama, while 8 percent said they are inclined to vote for McCain.
See the Pew survey here.
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By George
July 25, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
So there’s a lot of Asians and Indians in this country. Does anyone care who they are going to vote for? If the HIspanics want to vote for Obama, that’s a good reason for me not to, unless all these Hispanics are for LEGAL Imigration>
By Andy
July 27, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization. - Grover Cleveland - First Inaugural Address - Wednesday, March 4, 1885
By El Nino
July 28, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
MARK MY WORDS. The LATINO vote will not turn out for OBAMANATION.
The LATINO vote will shift certain SWING STATES for MCCAIN in November.
If anyone bothered to break down and analyze McCain’s speech to LA RAZA between his ENGLISH words and its SPANISH translation as it aired LIVE on CNN en espanol, then you would know this.