Why the Hispanic vote won the U.S. election for Obama

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Hispanic voters supported overwhelmingly the re-election of Barack Obama in several key states in the U.S. presidential election

According to a poll done on the even of the election. The growing number of Latinos in the United States played a key role in Obama winning another four years as president.

A poll late Tuesday night by CBS showed Obama won the Latino vote 69 percent to 29 percent. Many pundits believe Hispanic voters won the election for Obama.

Acclaimed Miami Herald columnist Andrés Oppenheimer tweeted after Obama's win that "Romney thought he could win without the Latino vote. Big Mistake!" He added that Romney received the lowest vote among Latinos in two decades.

In Florida, for example, 58 percent of Hispanic voters voted for Obama compared to 40 percent for Romney. In Virginia 66 percent of Latinos went for the president, opposed to 31 percent for his rival, according to a survey by Latino Decisions and the group Hispanic media ImpreMedia.

Latino voters are critical in Florida, where the state remains too close to call. Hispanics make up 17.4 percent of the population. They make up 2.3 percent in Virginia, another state that's close to call. Both states likely will be won by Obama, signaling that the Democrats favorable policies toward Latinos helped deliver the election to Obama.

More so, Republican comments seemed to alienate foreign voters. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was criticized for pushing the platform of "self-deportation" to force illegal immigrants out of the country.

The poll was conducted in Spanish and English from Nov. 1 to 5 with some 5,600 Hispanic voters, who reported they had voted early or would vote for Obama on Tuesday.

In other states where Obama defeated Romney, the president won a significant portion of the Latin vote. 

In Ohio (where Hispanics make up 1.5 percent of the population), Hispanic voters favored Obama 82 percent to 17 percent. In Colorado (12.4 percent Latino), Obama won the Hispanic vote 87 percent to 10 percent.

A record 24 million Latinos were registered to vote this year, although the polling company suggested that only about half actually would cast a vote.

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Barrack Obama wins a second term!

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Barrack Obama has won his second term.

It is no longer in doubt he has won! Congrats now it is time to actually make some changes and get the nation going in the right direction.

US President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. In victory, he confidently promised better days ahead.

Obama spoke to thousands of cheering supporters in his hometown of Chicago, praising Romney and declaring his optimism for the next four years. “While our road has been hard, though our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come,” he said.

Romney made a brief, graceful concession speech before a disappointed crowd in Boston. He summoned all Americans to pray for Obama and urged the night’s political winners to put partisan bickering aside and “reach across the aisle” to tackle the nation’s problems.

Still, after the costliest – and one of the nastiest – campaigns in history, divided government was alive and well. Democrats retained control of the Senate with surprising ease. With three races too close to call, they had the possibility of gaining a seat.

Republicans won the House, ensuring that Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Obama’s partner in unsuccessful deficit talks, would reclaim his seat at the bargaining table. With numerous races as yet uncalled, the size of the GOP majority was unknown.

At Obama headquarters in Chicago, a huge crowd gathered waving small American flags and cheering. Supporters hugged each other, danced and pumped their fists in the air. Excited crowds also gathered in New York’s Times Square, at Faneuil Hall in Boston and near the White House in Washington, drivers joyfully honking as they passed by.

With returns from 88 per cent of the nation’s precincts, Obama had 55.8 million, 49.8 per cent of the popular vote. Romney had 54.5 million, or 48.6 per cent.

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