Given that, by 2050, Hispanics will be 1 in 3 Americans in the United States, the GOP ought to be breaking out in nervous cold sweats over this margin of support for Democrats generally and Obama specifically:
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/...
Hispanic voters continue to say they prefer President Obama by wide margins over Republican nominee Mitt Romney amid signs that the race is tightening among the broader electorate, according to new data in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll.
Obama leads Romney 70 percent to 25 percent among likely Latino voters (and 69 percent to 23 percent among registered voters), a slight uptick for Romney from the 70 percent to 25 percent lead the president held a month ago.
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More Hispanics than last month said they are either a 9 or 10 (on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest) on a measure of their enthusiasm for this election. Sixty-eight percent of likely Latino voters rated their enthusiasm at that level, up from 59 percent last month.
Mitt Romney didn't do himself any favors by
glazing his skin with 'Latino cream' throwing a tantrum on Univision, or calling undocumented Hispanic workers
"illegals" that should "self-deport" while their children wondrously incubate dreams of becoming the next
Junot Diaz or scientist or lawyer or soldier for their country.
Not that I'm complaining: the more Romney shows his true colors–and the sooner the GOP becomes irrelevant in a rapidly shifting, changing, browning, liberalizing nation–the better. So please, proceed, Governor. Please proceed.