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...Congresswoman Laura Richardson's victory in the district's August special election bodes well for Obama, who holds a commanding lead in polls of likely California black voters, who account for just around 10% of the total Democratic electorate. Her story even has shades of Obama in it. In the space of a year she went from the Long Beach City Council to the State Assembly to the U.S. Congress. The child of a white mother and black father, Richardson, 45, won the district's special election with 67% of the vote after edging past State Senator Jenny Oropeza...
...That slight level of curiosity is encouraging for Obama. But there's no denying that the Illinois Senator has his work cut out for him in trying to win over the California Latino community in places like Long Beach, home of the 37th Congressional District, where Latinos make up 43% of the population. Not only does the former First Lady have built-in name recognition, she represents an era of prosperity that many of these women would like to see returned. "Not to mention, I like to elect the first woman President," Salazar, a retired dental assistant, said with...
...with her formidable machine in California. Her campaign has placed nearly 650,000 calls to Latino women - part of the nearly two million they've done total, twice as many as the Obama campaign - across the state, 12,000 of them to Latinas in the 37th district. "Most of our outreach is directed to women," said Michael Trujillo, Clinton's California field director. "We made the targeted decision long time ago to focus our resources on where we can have the biggest effect and for us that's women - Latino, African-American, white, Asian. There should not be a woman...
...five years leading the district, test scores have risen—in some cases dramatically...
...recent evening in the trendy loft district of downtown St. Louis, students from Missouri campuses gathered at Obama's state headquarters to plan the final phase of their own Super Tuesday effort. Quentin Anderson, 19, welcomed them by saying, "The youth vote is the most important factor in this cycle. We need to keep that momentum going." Glenn Rehn, 25, reported that Obama volunteers at the University of Missouri had collected 800 signed pledges of support before leaving campus for winter break. Kevin Wolfe, 19, said that for his group at Washington University in St. Louis, the Iowa success...