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Hispanic voters favor Obama by big margin, national poll indicates
More News videos WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama has opened a big lead among Hispanic voters, winning support from the vast majority of those who had voted for rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, according to a poll released Thursday.
The national survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, showed that 66 percent of Hispanic registered voters supported Obama, compared with 23 percent for Republican John McCain.
The other 11 percent were undecided.
More than three-quarters of Latinos who had voted for Clinton now say they are for Obama. Clinton carried the Hispanic vote, an important Democratic constituency, by about a 2-1 margin in the primaries.
"Hispanics seem to have seamlessly shifted from Clinton to Obama," said Susan Minushkin, deputy director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research group based in Washington.
Posted by wild_bill on July 26, 2008 at 3:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
WOW! That's a lot of conclusions from one "national poll". According to a CNN report, there were only 2000 Hispanics surveyed. That's not exactly significant number on the face of it. 10,000 or 50,000 would be a better sampling, but I guess if all you want to do is point out Obama's popularity then 2000 or 200 or even 20 would be enough.
The ONLY poll that matters is the one on Election day using the ballots.
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