88-year-old george mcgovern, the democratic party s 1972 presidential nominee, presented secretary of state hillary clinton with a world food program award this evening for her efforts to fight global hunger. a new poll by the pew hispanic center showed 65% of latinos planned to support democratic candidates in their local congressional districts while 22% planned to support republicans. compare that to pew s results among all voters, where 47% say they ll support democrats and 44% say they ll support republicans. which is a little different, of course, from the generic ballot we ve been reporting on now. the pew numbers are renssterred voters, registered voters, we need to be clear about that. wow what a gap between democrats and republicans when you ask latino voters. look at the nevada senate race, colorado, big illinois senate race, races for governor in some of those states. could be a huge issue. the question is how engaged are they in the campaign. let s look at these numb
make a requirement that the application for citizenship papers for a child must be recompaninied by the hospital bills. yes, but lindsey graham is he genuine or spinning with the political wind? he s been genuine. he s frustrated. shannon: did you have a split opinion? you do. you have a lot of people and probably the majority saying he is rying to catch the political wind right now. some think he is being genuine. some saying he s catching political wind say even if he is, eliminating the birthright citizenship, that would make it less rewarding for the illegals to come here and the pew numbers you talk about shannon, show if you make it less rewarding and more risky for illegals you can turn it around. shannon: keith larson, great to see you mornings on 1110 wbt in charlotte, north carolina. thank you for sharing your alvin visit with us as well.
in play. in a new pew poll conducted since wednesday. just last month in the same poll, romney trailed by eight points. driving romney surge, a spike in republican enthusiasm, more republicans made it through pew s likely voter screen than democrats. and a larger group of registered voters, the candidates are tied at 46. while it s unlikely returns on election day make it unlikely in this pew sample that romney has the upper hand. and looking inside the pew numbers, we re looking at an unlikely now romney leads by six, 50-44. will we see that same shift in the battleground state polls? we ll have to see what happened what happens.