Press Picks Up on NDN Polls Showing Strong Support for Immigration Reform in Key States

Earlier this week, NDN and its long-time collaborator and pollster, Sergio Bendixen, released a new set of compelling polls that shows overwhelming support for comprehensive immigration reform in the four battleground states of Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada.

To read the compilation of the four polls, click here. To read the Executive Summary of the polls, click here.

Despite another week of Palin-mania, the polls, released at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Public Policy Conference, received a good deal of attention in the press, which is beginning to understand that the Hispanic electorate may very well determine who is sitting in the Oval Office next January.

USA TODAY'S Kathy Kiely led off the coverage, quoting Simon in her article, Polls: Latinos favor Obama in 3 important battleground states.

Marcelo Raimon covered the poll for ANSA, Italian News Agency.

In his post, McCain's support boost does NOT include Latinos, The South Chicagoan's Gregory Tejeda cites NDN's new polls in his explanation of why he thinks McCain is not picking up new Latino support.

UPI summarized the poll in its Top News roundup.

The Thaiindian News reported on the polls in its report, Hispanics support Obama in four crucial states: Poll.

Columnist Ruben Navarette cited NDN and Bendixen's polls in his recent piece, Palin could help McCain with Latino vote.

The Tampa Bay Times blog, The Buzz, carried the USA TODAY article about the polls and the immigration reform issue.

Adrian Perez from the Latino Journal also showcased the poll coverage from USA TODAY.

And yesterday, Markos Moulitas, or kos of dailykos.com, wrote this about the polls:

Great new NDN polling of Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico shows huge support for comprehensive immigration reform (PDF) in some of the states most affected by immigration. I'll have more on this poll later.

Check back later for more on the immigration reform issue.