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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:00 am Post subject: The Clinton strategy? |
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 The Clinton strategy?
By Ruben Navarrette Jr.Having polarized blacks and whites, the Democratic primary campaign was already becoming sleazy. And now that Latinos have been added to the mix, it's become surreal.
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By Ruben Navarrette Jr.Having polarized blacks and whites, the Democratic primary campaign was already becoming sleazy. And now that Latinos have been added to the mix, it's become surreal.We're being told that Latinos won't vote for Barack Obama because he's black. The implication is that Latinos are racist.Sergio Bendixen, a Latino who conducts polls for Hillary Clinton, suggested during an interview with Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker that "the Hispanic voter - and I want to say this very carefully - has not shown a lot of willingness to support black candidates."John B. Judis, writing in the New Republic, insisted that Latino voters could be a firewall for Hillary Clinton in part because of "a legacy of an older Latin American prejudice against blacks that has been transplanted to this country."And, in the New York Times, Adam Nagourney and Jennifer Steinhauer cited "a history of often uneasy and competitive relations between blacks and Hispanics, particularly as they have jockeyed for influence in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York."Nagourney and Steinhauer neglected to mention that each of those cities have, in the past, elected black mayors who captured the majority of the Latino vote.It's true that in most polls, Hillary Clinton has a 2-1 advantage with Latino voters over Barack Obama.But does the Eastern media really expect us to buy the idea that the 44 million people who make up America's largest minority have a beef with African Americans? Does that include the Latinos who backed Obama in his campaigns in Illinois, and those who now support his presidential campaign? If anything, Latinos - especially those whose families have been in this country for generations - tend to have a keen understanding of racism, which makes them more likely to identify with the plight of African Americans.
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