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...Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67. —Aditi Banga, Stephanie S. Garlow, Samuel P. Jacobs, and Brittney L. Moraski contributed to the reporting of this story —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...Aditi Banga, Stephanie S. Garlow, and Brittney L. Moraski contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...Paras D. Bhayani, Claire M. Guehenno, and Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Republican defeat in November's midterm election "energized the Democratic base," Hernandez said. "The focus was back on us Democrats, and for two or three weeks we were the top of the news every day." Republicans, meanwhile, may have been demoralized and failed to show up at the polls. Rodriguez defeated Bonilla more than two to one in early voting in San Antonio, evidence that the vaunted Republican get-out-the-vote effort fell short, Masset said. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pumped "about a million dollars into the race," according to Hernandez. Labor unions and grassroots volunteers also worked...
...Some national pundits have suggested that immigration was a key factor in the race, since Bonilla's vote for a 700-mile border fence was not popular among the district's Hispanic voters. But Hernandez attributes the victory more to the Democrats' national wave of enthusiasm, buttressed by party organization and money. Still, the result could signal a swing in support among the state's Hispanic voters away from the Republicans. "We are blowing it with Hispanics," said Masset, arguing that the Republican leadership "have been focusing on Terri Schiavo, one white woman, rather than the 12 million Hispanics living...