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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Obama makes big strides with Latino voters

By Eunice Moscoso | Thursday, July 24, 2008, 03:32 PM

Sen. Barack Obama, who struggled to attract Hispanic voters in the Democratic primary, now has a commanding lead with the group, according to a study released Thursday.

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Sixty-six percent of registered Latino voters said they prefer Obama, compared to 23 percent for Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, according to the report by the Pew Hispanic Center, a non-partisan research group in Washington.

“The support for Obama is quite broad-based,” said Susan Minushkin, the center’s deputy director.

During the Democratic primary race, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York beat Obama with Latino voters by nearly a 2 to 1 margin.

The Pew survey showed that most of the Hillary voters — 76 percent — now say they are inclined to vote for Obama, while 8 percent said they are inclined to vote for McCain.

See the Pew survey here.

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