President Obama has been re-elected with strong Latino support

nbclatino.com ^ | November 6, 2012 | Sandra Lilley

[Tailgunner Joe]

Latinos delivered. A record 75 percent of Latinos voted for President Barack Obama, and only 23 percent voted for Romney, according to Latino Decisions exit polls . In 2008, the president won 67 percent of the Hispanic vote while his Republican opponent Sen. John McCain won 31 percent, that’s an 8 percent gain for Obama.

In the battleground state of Colorado, 87 percent of Latinos voted for Obama, while only 10 percent voted for Romney. In Ohio, 82 percent of Latinos voted for President Obama.

In Massachusetts, Latinos came out to vote overwhelmingly for Obama with 89 percent, and just 9 percent for Romney. Latino support here had implications in the white-knuckled, close Massachusetts Senate race. “Latinos are an estimated 6 to 7 percent of all voters in Massachusetts and the impreMedia-Latino Decisions data shows Latinos overwhelmingly supported Elizabeth Warren by a record margin, 86 percent for Elizabeth Warren to 14 percent for Brown and the Latino vote is what decisively put Warren over the top,” says Latino Decisions political scientist Matt Barreto.

New Mexico went blue in this election, with 77 percent of Latinos voting for Obama and 21 percent for Romney.

Latinos overwhelmingly said jobs and the economy as well as immigration were top issues for them. ”Obama’s re-election marks a new beginning for politics, in a year where non-minority states went overwhelmingly for Romney and still lost, the era of extremism is knocking on death’s door. The GOP in states like Arizona and Texas should heed this message well or follow the pathway to irrelevance that is the South,” says Stephen Nuño, political science professor at Northern Arizona University and an NBC Latino contributor.

“The enthusiasm of Latino voters in this election reflects not only support for Obama and his policies, but dislike for the policies of Romney and the GOP,” says Cristina Beltran, a professor of cultural and social analysis at New York University.

[tsowellfan]

“Nevada and New Mexico are already there”

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So is Maine. That’s the scary part.

[Scoutdad]

Thanks for the tip. Looks like a good site.

[Pining_4_TX]

Fight for their votes? How? As long as blacks, Hispanics, and women want to be taken care of by big daddy government, there is no way they will vote for a conservative. First, we need to get government out of education (not going to happen any time soon), and the welfare state will probably have to collapse before there is any real change.

[Silver Sabre]

Yeah Colorado and Virginia are on deck to become blue states instead of swing states.

[Tired of Taxes]

LOL. Oh, boy, I see what you mean. I’ll bet most Catholics never even heard of that organization, though. And there’s a large “social justice” movement among protestant churches, too, many of which have veered to the far Left in recent years. Like protestant churches, some Catholic churches have more Republicans and others have more Democrats.

We’re each going to see the problem in a different light, but, IMHO, the problem is our education system pushing young people toward the Left as well as the media steering the general public to the Left.

[TexasRepublic]

American ideals have become diluted by the influx of too many foreigners with foreign ideas and they have not assimilated. For example, too many Latinos still think like Mexicans instead of Americans, and the Republican Party can never do anything to appeal to them and retain Republican ideals. Until this country crashes and burns, some people will never learn, and some will never learn ever.