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The latest CBS-New York Times poll shows that presumptive democratic nominee Barack Obama has taken the lead for favorbilitiy among Hispanic populations, almost 3-1. The New York TImes recently reported that Obama had adopted former rival Hilary Clinton's plan to give small business owners, of which a large portion are Hispanic, a tax credit of 50 percent if they provided health insurance for their employees. But CBS survey director Kathy Frankovic says that's not the reason Hispanic voters have sided with the presumptive democratic nominee. She says this is typical of Hispanic voters. For example, in the 2000 election, Al Gore received 63 percent of the vote from Hispanics while Bush only received 35 percent.

However, the polls also showed that American voters are generally still skeptical about race relations in the U.S. Eighty percent of black American voters would choose Obama, as opposed to 30 percent of white American voters Black American voters also had almost twice as much of a negative view of race relations than whites.

However, Frankovic says if Obama wins the presidency, the African American voters feel the perception of race relations would most defintiely strengthen.