This is distressing:
[T]his is the third consecutive week he has earned less than majority support from Hispanics, and the current 44% -- also registered the prior week -- is his lowest from this group [...]
Notably, his approval rating among several groups that previously gave him strong majority support -- postgraduates, Hispanics, 18- to 29-year-olds, and lower-income Americans -- is now below the 50% threshold.
So perhaps Obama has bigger problems than just the "professional left"? This notion that Obama's critics are a small subset of the left is ridiculous, as the data clearly shows. And it's clearly justified—as the president has spent more time this year talking about deficits and austerity than he has about jobs.
Latinos, in particular, are feeling burned after years of hearing the administration brag that they were deporting more undocumented immigrants than Bush did. (Not to mention this.) Obama recently reversed course, of course, but Spanish-language media has treated it as election-season pandering, and it kind of is. It's the good kind of pandering, sure, but it has bred a new cynicism toward the administration. Thus, Latino support for Obama has cratered despite having the administration finally start saying the right things, at least on immigration.
People want results, not words.
Jobs, too.
Update: More thoughts on Latino priorities in this new post.