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...Carolina primary, Obama, who is half-white, half-black, pretty much transcended race, winning Iowa, which is 95% white, and placing a close second in New Hampshire, which is 96% white. But in subsequent weeks both campaigns traded charges of race baiting. Obama accused Clinton of politicizing Nevada's Latino vote and Clinton accused Obama of using her and her husband's remarks on civil rights out of context with black voters. Whatever the intentions the results were telling: Clinton won Nevada on the strength of Latino support and Obama won South Carolina with 78% of the black vote - although...
...Obama's campaign is backing up his inclusive words with actions. Realizing they were heading into not just California but Super Tuesday primaries in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, which all have large Latino populations, the Obama campaign has made Latino outreach one if its top priorities. The front desk of its Los Angeles headquarters on the ninth floor of an anonymous office building in Korean town has a sign-up sheet titled: "We really need your help reaching out to Spanish speakers." The list is full. The campaign's extensive Latino outreach program includes 6,000 precinct captains...
...they will need it. Currently Obama trails Clinton in polls of Latino voters 59% to 19%, according to the latest Field Poll of California Democratic likely voters. Overall, Clinton leads Obama 39% to 27%. "I doubt that he can win the Latino vote," said Mark DiCamillo, head of the poll. "But if he can make it a little more manageable, two to one or less, that would certainly make an impact? He could win California without winning the Latino vote. Narrowing the margin, that is probably what he's after...
...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, a Latina, in the primary. Political observers watched the race closely as an indicator of the growing power of the Latino vote in California. Though both Richardson and Oropeza disavowed racial overtones in the primary, most of Richardson's endorsers were African-American and Oropeza's were Latino. "Yes, race does exist, but more than that people are concerned about the issues," Richardson said. "We have double the nation's unemployment rate...
...Clinton is hardly giving it up without a fight. In fact, Obama has a lot of catching up to do 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...