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onyxred Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:08 AM
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Clinton's Hispanic edge
Edited on Sat Jan-26-08 12:10 AM by onyxred
By: Gebe Martinez
The Politico
Jan 24, 2008


Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez is a strong supporter of Barack Obama, his home-state senator, but there’s one aspect of Obama’s campaign that he finds maddening: Obama’s Latino outreach efforts.

“When you are washing dishes and waiting tables and are working these kinds of jobs, you don’t pick up Newsweek and find out the phenomenon about Barack Obama,” said Gutierrez, who says Latinos don’t know Obama.

Gutierrez, who represents a majority-Hispanic Chicago-based district, is frustrated that the campaign has not followed his advice to knock on the doors of Latino voters — the fastest-growing segment of the electorate — just as Hillary Rodham Clinton did recently in Las Vegas with other prominent Latinos at her side.

“She’s running a good campaign,” Gutierrez said of the New York senator. “Don’t blame Latinos and blacks with prejudice. There are a lot of other reasons” for Obama’s low Latino support, he said...

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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:11 AM
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1. More Race Baiting by Politico.com: Well, HRC, until she hands the reigns over to George P. Bush.
STOP OVERTLY RACE BAITING!!!

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DiamondJay Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 02:13 AM
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2. i think its racism
because historically blacks and hispanics have never gotten along.
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