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Gallup Poll: Obama strong with Latino voters

By Eunice Moscoso | Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 01:29 PM

Registered Latino voters favor Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain by about a 2 to 1 margin, according to a new Gallup Poll.

It shows that 59 percent said they would vote for Obama and 29 percent said they favored McCain.

Obama had struggled with Latino voters during the primaries where they strongly favored his main rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton.

However, recent polls show that Hispanic voters have “shown little difficulty in transferring their loyalties from Clinton to Obama,” Gallup says.

Latinos are considered a critical voting bloc in several swing states such as Florida, Colorado and New Mexico.

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