The latest impreMedia-Latino Decision tracking poll shows enthusiasm for the election among Latino voters on the rise. Forty-five percent of Latino voters say they are more likely to vote, an 8% increase from the past two months.
NBC Latino contributor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto told msnbc’s Chris Jansing that enthusiasm has grown specifically over the past 10 weeks especially in battleground states.
“What’s most important is that in the battleground states the rates are even higher with about 70% of Latinos showing enthusiasm for Obama,” DeFrancesco Soto said. She also reiterated that this enthusiasm rise in the battleground is crucial “for the Obama campaign to clinch the electoral voters that they need.”
Florida will be one battleground state where the Latino vote will be particularly interesting to watch, she added.
“Since 2000, we have seen a booming population of Puerto Ricans in central Florida, so we’re going to see that new voice come to the floor and they’re going to want to cast their ballot and show that they also have the clout in central Florida and it’s not just concentrated down in Miami,” she said.









