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Latinos offer mixed views on Barack Obama\u2019s tenure as president. Roughly half (48%) of Latino adults say the administration\u2019s accomplishments will outweigh its failures, while 36% say its failures will outweigh its accomplishments. Latinos\u2019 views of the Obama administration are generally in line with those of the U.S. general public<\/a>, half (49%) of whom say they expect the administration\u2019s accomplishments to outweigh its failures, compared with 44% who say the opposite.<\/p>\n\n

Hispanics\u2019 views of the Obama administration today are more positive than they were about the George W. Bush administration in 2008.<\/a> Then, just 19% of Hispanics said the Bush administration\u2019s accomplishments would outweigh its failures. At the same time, 54% of Hispanics in 2008 said the Bush administration\u2019s failures would outweigh its accomplishments. The general public in 2009 held similar views about the Bush administration. Almost a quarter (24%) said that administration would be remembered for its accomplishments more than its failures, while 64% said failures would outweigh successes.<\/p>\n\n

While 52% of U.S.-born Hispanics believe that the Obama administration\u2019s accomplishments will outweigh its failures, a smaller share (45%) of immigrant Hispanics hold the same view.<\/p>\n\n

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Views of the Obama administration\u2019s accomplishments also vary among Hispanic immigrants depending on their legal status. For example, half (50%) of Hispanic immigrants who are\u00a0U.S. citizens and 49% of Hispanic lawful permanent residents believe that the Obama administration\u2019s accomplishments will outweigh its failures. Almost four-in-ten Hispanic immigrants who do not hold U.S. citizenship and do not hold a green card (37%) say the administration\u2019s accomplishments will outweigh its failures, with an equal share saying the opposite (and 25% saying they don\u2019t know). It is this latter group of Hispanics that Obama targeted with an expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that would have extended deportation relief to about 4 million<\/a> of all the nation\u2019s unauthorized immigrants.[6. numoffset=”6″ The decision was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 4-4 tie<\/a> that left the appeals court ruling in place. Overall, 78% of the nation\u2019s 11.1 million<\/a> unauthorized immigrants are from Latin America.]\u00a0However, the proposal never took effect after an appeals court sided with several states that brought a lawsuit that sought to block the programs, a decision affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n

About the same share of Latino men (47%) and women (50%) say they expect the Obama administration\u2019s accomplishments to outweigh its failures. But the survey also finds that men are more likely than women to say the administration\u2019s failures will outweigh its accomplishments \u2013 41% compared with 31%.<\/p>\n\n

Six-in-ten Latinos with at least some college education agree that Obama\u2019s administration will be remembered more for its accomplishments than its failures. This is a higher share than among those who have not completed high school (38%) and those with only a high school diploma (43%).<\/p>\n\n

The sharpest differences in views of the Obama administration among Hispanics are by political party identification, with Democrats giving a more positive assessment, while Republicans offer a strongly negative assessment. Two-thirds (66%) of Hispanic Democrats say the administration will be remembered more for its accomplishments than its failures, while just 19% say the opposite. By comparison, only one-third (33%) of Hispanic Republicans have a positive view of the Obama administration\u2019s accomplishments, while almost six-in-ten (59%) say the administration\u2019s failures will outweigh its accomplishments. Meanwhile, Hispanic independents are split in their assessment of the Obama administration: 42% say its accomplishments will outweigh its failures, while 45% say its failures will outweigh its accomplishments.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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