Latino Decisions: Obama 73, Romney 21 with Hispanic voters

Barack Obama's 52-point lead in the new Latino Decisions tracking poll matches his widest advantage of the year:

Overall, Obama has the support of 73% of all Latino registered voters, compared to 21% who favor Romney. The 52-point gap matches the largest gap among Latinos this year, also found in the Oct. 1 tracking poll. For the 10 weeks the impreMedia-Latino Decisions poll has been taken the most important issue for Latinos consistently has been the economy and the latest release revealed that Romney and the Republican party have been unable to convince Latino voters that they will be better at improving the it. Seventy-three percent of Latino voters trust Obama and the Democrats to make the right decisions to improve the economy compared to only 18% that trust Romney and the Republicans.

Those are remarkable numbers on the economy, given that Romney's strategy to win back Latinos has been to campaign on jobs and hope that trumps immigration. When Emily and I wrote in August about the possibility of an utter blowout among Latinos, Republicans expressed optimism that Romney could work his way up to 35 percent or so of the Latino vote. That now seems like a remote prospect, and if Romney wins it will be because a wide enough margin among whites is still enough to overcome the kind of numbers you see in this poll.