GOP's Rating with Latinos Falls to Margin of Error

by Jonathan Singer
from MyDD
Sun Aug 09, 2009

Look at what Republicans' knee-jerked opposition to Sonia Sotomayor has done to their standing among Hispanic voters across the country:

Republican Party approval rating among Latinos

	4/27-30	8/3-6
Favorable	14	3
Unfavorable	73	86
No opinion	13	11

That's right. Per nonpartisan Research 2000 polling commissioned by Daily Kos, the GOP's favorable rating among Hispanics nationwide has fallen to inside the margin of error. While the size of the subgroup is no doubt small, thus making the margin of error for the subgroup large, the fact that the party's standing among Hispanics has dropped to virtually nothing is nevertheless remarkable (even if not surprising).