According to a recent analysis of surveys by Gallup, President Barack Obama's job approval rating took a hit, going from 53 percent in December of last year down to 41 percent in November.

One of the biggest areas of loss for the president was among the Hispanic respondents, in fact, it was the biggest area of loss according to Gallup's Editor-in-Chief Dr. Frank Newport.

"He has lost the most among Hispanics," said Newport in an analysis. "This is a real key. His ratings were at 75 percent, his approval rating, last December among Hispanics. Now all the way down to 52, which is a drop of 23 percentage points.

"We have found previously that Hispanics are pretty volatile in their approval ratings for a president. They can go up and they can go down, but this is troublesome for the Democrats, because if a Democratic president loses Hispanic support, that's a key group that is growing in the United States and therefore critical for the Democrats' plan for success in the future."

The next two segmented groups where Gallup found the most decline in approval were those with incomes under $24,000 per year, where Obama saw a drop of 18 percentage points (64 percent to 46 percent) and 17 percentage points among "non-white" respondents (82 percent to 65 percent).

Newport notes that the approval rating of the president has continued to shift more than in any other segment, and suggests that the "Latino vote" may still be up for grabs.

Hispanic approval of Obama during his time in office has swung from as low as 49 percent to as high as 80 percent according to Gallup's research.

"The fact that their approval of the job Obama, a Democrat, is doing as president varies from quarter to quarter considerably more than is the case for non-Hispanics suggests that they may be less fixed in their political attitudes than one might expect," Newport noted.