The Week in Polls: Number of Eligible Latino Voters Swells in 2012

Population of Latino voters sees 22 percent jump, plus more.

Americans Weigh In - Congress loses a popularity contest, the number of interracial marriages in the United States reaches all-time high, President Obama gets kudos for fiscal cliff dealings, plus more national polls. – Joyce Jones and Britt Middleton
Population of Eligible Latino Voters Grows in 2012 - Courting the Latino vote has been a focus of both the Obama and Romney campaigns, and new numbers from the Pew Research Center shows the potential level of influence Latinos have in the 2012 presidential election. A record 23.7 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in the presidential election, up 22 percent from 2008, although, historically, Blacks and whites have higher voter turnout rates, the survey reported. (Photo: Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
Upward Bound - Rand Corporation has taken a novel, error-free approach to polling the presidential campaign: survey the same 3,500 people every month. The group was evenly split between Romney and Obama, but since Bill Clinton's convention speech, the president has been gaining the edge and now has a seven-point lead, according to Rand's latest survey. (Photos from left: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Darren McCollester/Getty Images, AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Romney Disparages 47 Percent of Americans - In the final leg of the presidential campaign, a video was released of Romney at a May 2012 fundraising dinner condemning 47 percent of the American population as overly dependent on government services.  (Photo: Courtesy of Mother Jones)

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Americans Weigh In - The population of eligible Latino voters grows in 2012, Americans criticize media's coverage of Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comments, health physicians practice what they preach, plus more. —Joyce Jones and Britt Middleton

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