Latino Decisions Poll: Latinos enthusiastic about Obama

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

In five key 2012 battleground states, a new poll from Latino Decisions has President Obama leading Mitt Romney by a combined lead of 36 points, 63% to 27%. New Poll: Obama leads Romney among Latinos in key 2012 battleground states:

"[H]owever in southwestern battlegrounds of Arizona, Colorado and Nevada Obama performed even better. In Arizona Obama received 74% to 18% for Romney, in Colorado he was favored by 70% to 22% and in Nevada 69% to 20%.  In Virginia, Obama lead 59% to 28% over Romney among Latino registered voters."

Part of this advantage for President Obama appears to be related to his recent announcement to provide relief to undocumented immigrant youth.

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Looking just at the new polling data gathered June 17-21, 58% are now more enthusiastic compared to 9% who are less enthusiastic (+49).  Across the key states the enthusiasm for the DHS policy shift follows trends in Obama support.  For example, in Arizona and Nevada Latinos showed the most enthusiastic response.

The survey also asked Latinos how enthusiastic they were about voting in the 2012 election, following similar questions that were asked in our November 2011 benchmark survey with Univision.  In November 2011, 47% of Latinos were “very enthusiastic” about voting in the Presidential election. Today, 60% of Latino voters report they are very enthusiastic about voting in the November 2012 election and an additional 23% are somewhat enthusiastic.  When asked to compare their interest and enthusiasm levels in the 2008 and 2012 election, more people now tell us they more enthusiastic about voting in 2012 than 2008, a shift from our previous polling.

Full results by state are here and archived with others at our Recent Polls page. Latino Decisions interviewed 2,000 Latino registered voters between June 12-21, 2012 using live telephone callers, sampled across five states, with 400 each in AZ, CO, FL, NV, VA.  A mix of landline and cell phone-only households were called, and up to 5 attempts were made per number. . . Overall, the entire sample has a margin of error of +/- 2.2% and each state sample has a margin of error of +/- 4.9%.