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Republican campaign pros and pollsters have for weeks been bracing for a post-clinch "bump" for Barack Obama, and something resembling one came in a new Wall Street Journal NBC poll on Friday...
...Obama now leads John McCain by six points nationwide, the new poll said, about twice the margin reported in May. Most of the internal findings were predictable: Obama leads among women, blacks, Catholics, and independents. McCain is tops among whites, males, white suburban women and evangelicals. That means the White House, even with the new margin, is up for grabs. The most intriguing piece of news in the poll, however, suggests how the end of the primaries and the start of the general election are already reshaping the race...
...According to the poll, Hispanic voters are backing Obama by a margin of 62 to 28 percent. This is not an unprecedented gap for a generic Democrat, but much had been written during the spring about whether Hispanics would vote for an African-American. Perhaps those analysts believed primary exit polls were a reliable prologue for the fall: Hillary Clinton had run ahead of Obama by a two-to-one margin among Hispanics in the states where exit polls were taken. Note the spread: Clinton usually won between 60 and 65 percent of Hispanics in those contests; Obama captured between...
...with Clinton out of the race, Obama has an identical edge with these voters against McCain. One Hispanic voting expert working for Obama said the new poll findings suggests two possibilities: 1) at least some of Clinton's supporters are having no trouble transferring their affections to Obama; and, 2) Hispanic voters are among those moving fastest...
...more thing: that 29% number in the new WSJ/NBC poll isn't shrink-proof. Only 23% of Hispanics think of themselves as Republicans, a Pew study found last year. And Obama will have one enormous advantage in wooing Hispanics that McCain lacks - money. It was reported this week that Obama may come close to raising close to $100 million in June, a political fund-raising threshold virtually without precedent. If Obama's donors can maintain that pace, they may be able to raise as much as $300 million for the fall campaign, a tally that would swamp McCain's more...