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Latino activists across the country pledged another Freedom Summerif President Obama went through on his promised executive action on immigration reform. They promised that they would flood states across the country, knocking on doors and helping Democrats keep the Senate. And they said Obama would be known as the "great emancipator" if he acted.

Well, that argument didn't convince Obama of the political efficacyof taking action before the election, and now a new poll shows that Latinos are, not surprisingly, pretty down on their party when it comes to immigration.

The Pew Research Center poll shows Democratic-leaning Hispanics say theirparty isn't doing a good job on immigration by a 52-45 margin.

These low numbers didn't happen overnight. As with other groups, Obama has seen an erosion of Hispanic support since he was reelected in 2012. Back then, Obama's approval rating among Hispanics was75 percent,according to Gallup. Even as of July 2013, his immigration-specific approval ratingamong Hispanics was 68 percent, according to aWashington Post/ABC News poll.

One year later, some 40 percent of Democratic-leaning Hispanics say he has not been willing enough topush forward with granting legal status to illegal immigrants. And that'snot all Hispanics, we emphasize, but just Democratic-leaning ones.

The White House has made clearthat something will still happen on immigration reform before the holiday season is over. And as happened with the deferred deportations of young illegal immigrants in 2012, any move will energize Latinos and likely reverse some of the downward trend that Obama has faced among Hispanics.

Buttwo years after soundly beating Republicans among Hispanics by 47 points, Obama and the Democrats haven't yet monopolized what amounts to a very important and very fast-growing demographic. And it's quite possible many Democratic-leaning Hispanics simply stay home.

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The Fix: Hispanic Democrats are really down on their partys immigration efforts