POLITICO.COM
Barack Obama’s minority support strong in swing states
By GLENN THRUSH
December 7, 2011
Barack Obama’s minority support strong in swing states
Some excerpts :
African-American and Hispanic voters in swing states still back President Barack Obama by overwhelming margins and are motivated to go to the polls — but Latino support rates are lagging behind 2008 levels, according to a poll of likely voters in 11 battleground states conducted by Brilliant Corners Research and obtained by POLITICO.
About nine in 10 blacks in swing states still back the president. While 71 percent of Latinos in swing states still approve of Obama’s performance, only 64 percent now say they are leaning toward him or plan to vote for him in 2012. That’s slightly worse than the 67 percent of Hispanic voters who supported Obama in 2008.
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And there’s more evidence that tapping Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for the GOP vice presidential slot is no magic bullet, with Latino voters rating him unfavorable 26 percent to 24 percent.
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Winning a high percentage of Latino support, especially in states such as Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and Arizona will be critical if Obama is to offset the loss of white swing-state independents.
The survey, commissioned in mid-November by the Women of Color Policy Network at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, polled about 800 voters in New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Missouri.
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