Gallup: Latino approval of Obama soars 14 points since amnesty, more than 20 points since September

Hotair ^ | 12/01/2014 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

A striking graph from Washington Post. For most of the country, his job approval has been flat in the low to mid-40s for nearly a year. His approval among Latinos was mostly flat too from February to the beginning of September, albeit a bit higher in the mid-50s. Then he announced on September 6th that executive action on immigration would be postponed; two and a half months after that, he finally came through with the power grab that amnesty fans have been dreaming of.

Follow the bouncing ball:

After the postponement, Latino support dropped below the 50 percent mark, almost to parity with the wider population. But as the White House started insisting that they’d act after the election, it began to creep up — and then, after he declared himself the lawgiver-in-chief on immigration in late November, it took off. At 68 percent, his job approval among Latinos is now the highest it’s been since early 2013, when he was still enjoying a post-reelection honeymoon with the electorate. Now, look at that red line and ask yourself how Democratic leaders are likely to react circa summer 2016 if Hillary’s stuck in a tight race with her GOP opponent and desperate for something to goose Democratic base voters. I wonder if one reason why Obama didn’t go even bigger with his own amnesty, reaching the eight-to-ten million threshold on legalization that some amnesty fans begged for, is because he wanted to leave some policy meat on the bone either for President Hillary or for himself. The thing about amnesty is, there’s always another amnesty right around the corner to “complete” the previous one. Especially when the political incentives are as sweet as they appear to be.

How sweet are they really, though? Conn Carroll notes that big gains among Latinos may comes at the expense of losses among a more populous group:

He’s been basically flat at -4 among college-educated whites since 2010, but among less educated whites — the sort of people who’ll feel a fresh new supply of low-skilled labor most acutely — he’s at -8. How low can that number go post-amnesty before Democrats are hemorrhaging so badly that another amnesty loses them more voters than it gains? Remember, for all of his supposed connection with white working-class voters, especially in the south, Bill Clinton campaigned for Alison Lundergan Grimes and Mark Pryor in Kentucky and Arkansas, respectively, this past fall — and saw both of them crushed by much wider margins than expected. Would Obama dare drop another amnesty bomb a few months before the 2016 election when the fallout on the white vote could be unpredictable?

Exit question via Grover Norquist: The natural Republican counter to Obama’s insistence on immigration reform is to, er, pass some immigration reform, right?

[Tupelo]

The wetbacks here love him.
At least the ones in the human smuggler stash house next door do. The stash house that the Sheriff’s dept and BP ignore on the nights they are blacked out. Usually one or two nights a week.

[glorgau]

Does this poll include likely voters? </sarc >

[bray]

Is that the same Gallup that was off 15% last election? Yeah, they can be trusted.

Pray America is waking

[MeshugeMikey]

ess habout la familia

[Revel]

Yeah they just could not wait to bring the lawlessness and corruption from their own country- Right here to the USA.

[Dagnabitt]

Hispanics cheering the end of America.

I wish they had a real capability to assimilate - so that they might want something for their new homeland beyond open borders and a complete merger with Mexico and further-south countries.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article SeekAndFind. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

The referenced article doesn’t really compliment previous reports.

• FR: Poll: Hispanics closely divided on executive amnesty

• FR: Poll: Many Latinos Disapprove of Obama's Executive Amnesty

• FR: NBC poll: Executive amnesty is… pretty unpopular with just about everybody

Note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration. So Obama has no legitimate federal immigration laws to pardon imo.

[Cyman]

I think Urkel’s presidential library should be built in Ciudad Juarez

[Cowboy Bob]

White approval if Obama drops 50% since amnesty.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Let’s see - 20% of 10% of the voters - 2% increase in voter approval - and how many percent among everybody else has he lost?....

[caveat emptor]

Gallup: Latino approval of Obama soars 14 points since amnesty, more than 20 points since September

From WaPo:

The U.S. Census Bureau released its November voting data and one thing is clear: The so-called Latino Sleeping Giant is still snoozing — fewer than half of all eligible Hispanics turned out to vote in 2012.

After nearly a year of breathless reports about how Latinos were going to trip over themselves to get to the polls and vote against Mitt Romney’s hard-line immigration stance — remember Time magazine’s Spanish-language cover “Yo Decido”? — the reality is less dramatic.

Yes, 11.2 million Latinos turned out to vote in 2012. But these headlines tell a different story: “As Hispanic Vote Lags, Millions of Votes Left on the Table,” “‘Record’ Hispanic Voter Turnout In 2012 a Misnomer, Census Numbers Show,” and “Gains in Hispanic vote fall short of projections.” ........

Paul Taylor and Mark Hugo Lopez summarized it for the Pew Research Center: “Hispanics continue to punch below their weight. Much was made right after the November election about the clout of the Hispanic vote (by, among others, the Pew Research Center). But the new Census Bureau data show that Hispanics’ turnout rate -- just 48 percent — as far below that of whites (64.1 percent) or blacks (66.2 percent).”

OTOH if enough are amnestied with a path to citizenship the GOP will be in big trouble.

[windsorknot]

It should please 0bama that he is the Tooth Fairy for Latinos.

[ncalburt]

Wow, Allah-idiot strikes again. This sorry DC lapdog loves pushbpolls from his Amnesty pals at the compost.

Believe nothing from this DC crony capitalist jock sniffer.

This moron worships at the temple of the fraud Nate Silver !

[Praxeologue]

All this shows is that illegal Mestizos like amnesty.

This is no surprise.

After all, women of child-bearing years like permission to kill their unborn, homosexuals like the ability to marry, Americans with incomes between $25,000 and $60,000 like the government paying for their healthcare and people who don't like work love welfare

[ScottinVA]

He may have bought off the Hispanics with this illegal move, but at what price? Virtually every other ethnic group is PO’d at him for it.. even some of his most blindly devoted ethnic group.. the blacks.

[Gene Eric]

The Great Balkanizer.

[caver]

The Latinos are just as stupid as the blacks. Obama will use them and then throw them away.

[FreedomStar3028]

Or, EO to either turn in your weapons, or be summarily executed? Or giving the southwest back to Mexico, or making whites pay a “reparations tax”, or.....nvm.

Wouldn’t want ‘Bama to get any ideas.

[FreedomStar3028]

Example A: Mexico and South of Mexico.

“I rest my case”

[RipSawyer]

If I understand that graph it shows that when non-hispanic white people go to college they become much more stupid. Am I reading it correctly?