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Politics : John McCain for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (2156)	7/25/2008 11:50:48 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

Latinos overwhelmingly support Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama over Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, 66 percent to 23 percent a poll released today shows. Among the report’s findings: • More than three fourths of Latinos who voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary said they would now support Obama in the fall. • Registered Latino voters said education, the economy and healthcare are critical issues for the presidential campaign with crime, the war in Iraq and immigration more distant concerns. • About 65 percent of registered Latino voters said they now lean toward or identify with the Democratic Party. Local leaders said they were not surprised that Latinos support Obama nearly three to one. Latinos have coalesced around the Illinois senator forming “Viva Obama Clubs” in much the same way organizers did with John F. Kennedy clubs in 1960. “The Latino community is responding; it has no where else to go,” said Armando Navarro, a political science professor at UC Riverside and coordinator of the National Alliance of Human Rights, which helped orchestrate the 500,000-person protest in Los Angeles in March that decried an enforcement-only House immigration bill co-sponsored by Rep. Mary Bono Mack. “What McCain represents is not good for us; it’s not good for the country because it represents a continuance of the Bush administration.”