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Latino voters support President Obama for reelection over Mitt Romney: poll
Obama's approval rating is 13 points higher among Latinos than among all Americans
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BY BRIAN BROWDIE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 5:53 PM
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President Barack Obama holds a 34-point lead among Latino voters, according to poll results released Wednesday.
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President Obama holds a sizeable lead among a potentially pivotal group of voters with 61% of Latinos supporting him for reelection, a new poll found.
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll released Wednesday shows 27% of Latino voters support his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.
Obama’s approval rating among Latinos is 13 points higher than his rating among all Americans.
Hispanics approve of Obama’s handling of the economy by a margin of 54% to 38% -- 11 points higher than his marks on the economy among adults overall.
The president won 67% of the Hispanic vote in his 2008 victory over Republican rival Senator John McCain.
At least 12.2 million Latinos are expected to cast ballots in November, a 26% increase from 2008, according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
The group expects Hispanic voters to make up 8.7% of the electorate in Colorado, 18.3% in Florida and 35% in New Mexico -- all states poised to play a central role in the electoral outcome.
“Candidates have come to understand they can’t win the White House without Latino support,” Arturo Vargas, NALEO's executive director, told the Daily News. “If we look at the past three presidential elections, the Latino vote has had a decisive impact.”
In one sign of the significance Obama and Romney attach to wooing Hispanics, both candidates are slated to address NALEO’s annual conference next month. On Wednesday, Romney presented a series of proposals on education reform at The Latino Coalition’s Annual Economic Summit in Washington, D.C.
Despite his apparent lead among Latinos, the president may have work ahead of him if he hopes to translate survey support into ballot box gains.
Sixty-eight percent of Latinos say they are highly interested in the upcoming election, 13% fewer than voters overall who express high interest in the contest.
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