Hispanics stick with Obama

[Hope And Change]

June 17, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama

Hispanics stick with Obama

Contrary to the CW, http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/17/1148076.aspx">First Read notes, Obama doesn't seem to have a Hispanic problem:

There was a growing consensus during the Democratic primary season that Obama was going to struggle with Latino voters -- due to the exit polls, his race, and McCain’s immigration stance. In fact, in that now-famous conference call in which Hillary Clinton indicated that she would be open to serving as Obama’s running mate, that response was spurred by concern by New York Rep. Nydia Velasquez (D) that Obama was going to have trouble with Latinos. But it looks like that CW -- at least right now -- was wrong. In addition to our recent NBC/WSJ poll, which showed Hispanics breaking for Obama 62%-28%, a new survey of 800 Latino voters from 21 states finds that 60% of them plan to vote for Obama versus 23% for McCain. That is down considerably from the 40%-plus Bush received in 2004. It’s no longer fair to say that Obama has a problem with Latino voters; McCain does. This was a case of conventional wisdom that was never based on fact, just semi-informed speculation based on primary exit polling and bad stereotypes of Latinos.



By Ben Smith 11:08 AM

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Hispanics_stick_with_Obama.html#comments

[babylonsister]

1. I feel a blowout coming down the pike, and in this case that's a good thing! nt

[blondeatlast]

2. Here in AZ, I'm hoping a heavy GOTV campaign will help out. The EC vote is a write-off,

but we can still turn some local races blue I hope.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Polls showing otherwise have been out for days now

but I still heard a talking head parroting that meme yesterday. They will cling to Obama has a problem with women and latinos until they are called on it repeatedly. This talking head was allowed to say it yesterday without being corrected.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. I knew it. When I canvassed in NC, a lot of Hispanics were clearly

Hillary supporters, but told me they would fully support Obama if he were the nominee. And surprisingly, when I ride through that particular neighborhood, there are a few Obama lawn signs. So much for the hype.