Monday, January 28, 2008

L.A.Times: Pollster Benidixon spin wrong about Latino voters and black candidates

LA Times's Gregory Rodriguez on "Clinton's Latino spin"
"A few weeks ago, Sergio Bendixen, a Clinton pollster and Latino expert, publicly articulated what campaign officials appear to have been whispering for months. In an interview with Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker, Bendixen explained that "the Hispanic voter -- and I want to say this very carefully -- has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates." .... But was Bendixen's blanket statement true? Far from it, and the evidence is overwhelming enough to make you wonder why in the world the Clinton campaign would want to portray Latino voters as too unrelentingly racist to vote for Barack Obama."


My comments: Maybe Clinton wants Latinos to forget about this:
“WE NEED TO HAVE A PLAN TO GET THEM BACK TO THE COUNTRIES THEY CAME FROM”,
TERRY MCAULIFFE, Clinton campaign manager
Story about the quote: http://nuestravoice.com/?p=531
The Quote Captured in Audio: http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/kpcc/news/shows/airtalk/2007/01/20070130_airtalk1?start=00:26:22&end=00:55:01

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