Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

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Quick Hit: Would Clinton Have Done Better Than Obama Among Latinos?

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s another exit poll, this one with a hypothetical Hillary Clinton-John McCain match-up. The results are slightly disturbing in what they suggest about race relations in America (look at the last item).
Perhaps the mythical black-brown divide exists for a very small minority of Latino voters. Or maybe they just really like Hillary Clinton.
From CBS News: [...]

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Battle for the West: NM Foot in Mouth

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Bernalillo GOP chair: ‘Hispanics won’t vote for a black president’
The chairman of the Bernalillo County Republican Party resigned Thursday following comments reported on a BBC blog last week that most observers said fell somewhere between insensitive and poorly articulated to outright racist. The money shot: “Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won’t vote for a [...]

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