"A third to a half of the voters casting ballots in Texas's Democratic primary are expected to be Latino. And Hillary Clinton, Obama's chief rival for the nomination, has outpolled Obama two-to-one among Hispanic voters nationwide. Obama saw an uptick in his appeal to Latinos in Tuesday's voting in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, but he's got much ground to cover before March 4 if he hopes to best Clinton for the Latino vote and the lion's share of Texas's 228-delegate prize.
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Josh Earnest, Obama's Texas spokesman, says the Clintons' deep roots in Texas will be a factor in the upcoming race. But the more people get to know Obama, he argues, the more they like him. "His chances in Texas depend on our ability to introduce Senator Obama and his background to black, white and Hispanic voters. Texans are not used to having such a big say in the presidential race. This year they clearly will." The Hispanic vote in Texas is very important, he says, and "we intend to spend a lot of time and resources competing for it."
Rene Martinez, a 61-year-old Dallas school administrator sporting a cream-colored cowboy hat, was one of the few Hispanic supporters at the Obama gathering in Dallas. His son Alexis, 26, originally turned him on to Obama, and his wife Beatrice pronounced that she was fed up with Bill and Hillary's "polarizing" campaign tactics. "We should be the old-guard Chicanos who go with Clinton, and we're not. The young people have really energized me, and they are mobilizing for Obama," Rene says."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/111041
My comments:
Why anyone still lumps all Latinos together as Hispanics is beyond me. Latinos in Texas are as different from Latinos elsewhere as Texans are from their Anglo counterparts in other regions.
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