Obama close to maxing out Hispanic support
By BYRON TAU |
5/8/12 4:09 PM EDT
President Obama is drawing heavy support from the Hispanic community according to two recent polls showing the president with more than a 50 point over likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
The latest Investor's Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll has Obama leading Romney among Hispanic voters by a 68 point margin, beating the former Massachusetts governor 80 percent to 12 percent. A second PPP poll, commissioned by the liberal blog Daily Kos and the SEIU union, shows Obama beating Romney 72 percent to 22 percent — a 50 point margin.
It's hard to imagine those numbers going any higher on election day. Obama bested John McCain 67 percent to 31 percent among Latinos in 2008 — and, if these polls are accurate, he is poised to capture a larger share of the Hispanic vote than in 2008. The fight to woo Latino voters is part of a deliberate strategy by the Obama campaign which has launched two Spanish-language ad buys in key states — recognizing that the changing demographics in key states like Florida, Colorado and Arizona.
Republicans have reluctantly acknowledged that the party has some image-building to do in the wake of a bruising party primary that saw Republican candidates double down on anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.
"What we've seen is some Hispanics feel [that] the Republican Party isn't doing enough to include them in what we're doing, to reach out to them," Bettina Inclan, RNC's Hispanic outreach director, said on a conference call Tuesday. "What we're trying to do is rebuild that relationship."
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