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October 18, 2012

Huff. Post: Latino voters support Obama, but Catholics and Evangelicals differ widely, Pew survey finds

by Jaweed Kaleem
The Huffington Post

A new survey released Thursday shows that while Latino voters generally support the reelection of President Barack Obama by a wide margin over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, there are wide political divisions among the population's religious groups, such as Catholics and evangelicals.

About three-quarters of Latino Catholics and 8 in 10 religiously unaffiliated Latinos support reelecting Obama, according to the report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center. Yet, when it comes to Latino evangelicals, a growing group that includes about 16 percent of Latino registered voters, just half support Obama while 39 percent support Romney. 

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