Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Polls hint at a political upside in Obama immigration announcement

Two new horse race polls today, and a couple of other more demographic-specific pieces of information, seem to declare President Obama's call to end the deportation of those brought to the United States as youths a winner.

In both our national Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation poll, and a separate PPP poll out of the key battleground state of Colorado, Obama held leads, in no small part because of excellent support among Latino voters.

This dovetails with other polling that suggests that both Latinos and the nation at-large applaud the president's decision.

On to the numbers:

PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION TRIAL HEATS:

NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney d. Obama (46-45)

NATIONAL (PPP for Daily Kos/SEIU): Obama d. Romney (49-45)

NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Romney d. Obama (48-44)

ARIZONA (PPP for Project New West): Romney d. Obama (49-46)

COLORADO (PPP): Obama d. Romney (49-42)

WASHINGTON (Elway Poll): Obama d. Romney (49-41)

DOWNBALLOT POLLING:

AZ-SEN (PPP for Project New West): Jeff Flake (R) 43, Richard Carmona (D) 41

HI-02--D (QMark for Hannemann): Mufi Hannemann 45, Tulsi Gabbard 27, Bob Marx 8, Esther Kiaaina 2

MT-SEN (Rasmussen): Denny Rehberg (R) 49, Sen. Jon Tester (D) 47

NE-SEN (Public Opinion Strategies for Fischer): Deb Fischer (R) 58, Bob Kerrey (D) 33

WA-GOV (PPP): Rob McKenna (R) 43, Jay Inslee (D) 40

A few thoughts, as always, await you just past the jump ...