Most Latinos Don’t Hold Obama’s Immigration Delay Against Him

*Seems that, according to  a Pew poll, the majority of Latinos are disappointed at Obama about immigration, but not angry. VL

By Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

This is just raw data, and I suppose you can take in two ways, but here’s what a new Pew poll says about supposed Latino outrage over President Obama’s decision to delay executive action on immigration until after the election. Basically, the whole thing was overblown. It turns out that only about 9 percent of Latinos are angry about the delay. David Lauter summarizes the rest of the survey:

The Pew survey showed that Latino support for Democrats has receded on a couple of key measures, including party identification and a question about which party better represents their interests. But the decline was modest,noticeable mostly by contrast with very high levels of support achieved in 2012, when Obama won reelection.

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