Letters to the Editor
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@sunspot
You obviously don't understand the situation. You seem to think "Latino" is a monolithic category. Most white folks do, sadly. The Latino vote in Virginia is substantially composed of Central American immigrants, whereas the Latino vote in Texas is mostly Mexican-American. The pattern of voting in Texas is much more likely to follow the pattern of voting in California than in Virginia, at least among "Latinos." Not all Latinos think alike, but all evidence shows, from the Nevada caucus to Arizona and Cali, that Mexican-Americans have not warmed to Obama at all.
Besides, as Josh Marshall posts on TalkingPointsMemo.com:
"We're hearing on the cable shows that Obama won the Latino vote in Virginia 55%-45%. And clearly Obama is having a very good night. But we shouldn't necessarily read that much in to those numbers because Latinos were only 5% of the Democratic primary electorate. So the sample size is just too small to be reliable. So maybe Obama kicked butt among Latinos. But we can't know that from these numbers."