Matt Ortega

Early in the primary season, the pundits often praised Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) for the once-moderate record on immigration that set him apart from the rest of the Republican contenders. The punditocracy, apparently, believing that the blatant scapegoating of Latinos for everything that goes wrong is so rampant in the Republican Party that GOP lawmakers must receive praise for not doing it. Pundits argued that this made John McCain a more palatable GOP presidential nominee to Hispanic voters than the others.

Or so went the conventional wisdom.

Gallup, the respected polling outfit, released new numbers that showed Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois), the presumptive Democratic nominee, crushing John McCain among Hispanic voters, 62-29.

Polling data across the board looks incredibly strong for Senator Obama.

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President Bush set an all-time disapproval rating record in the CNN/Gallup polling by breaking the 70 percent mark to become the most unpopular president in modern American history.

“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

“Bush’s approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s,” Holland added. “The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952.” [original emphasis]

With the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq fast approaching, two stories turned up in the RSS reader one after another:

Bush: Iraq War Worth It

And –

Poll: Majority of Americans Say War Not Worth It