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Great LA Times cover today about Latino vote in CA
Key 'graphs:
"Clinton's emphasis on healthcare and the economy also helped, allowing her to trade on the prosperity that many Latinos enjoyed during her husband's administration.
"The Obama campaign, by contrast, aired Spanish-language radio ads promoting his support for issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. That was a 'classic Northeastern assumption' that licenses were the primary concern of Latinos, according to Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC.
"'It's not. I think he would have had much more traction on issues like education, or the loss of jobs . . . issues that resonate with Latino homeowners,'" Pachon said."
Check it out:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-calif7feb07,0,3415944.story