Latinos organize to flex political muscle

“After the 2004 presidential election, Mickey Ibarra, an ex-Clinton White House aide and strategist, convened 50 Hispanic Democratic leaders in hopes of answering this question: “What in the world just happened to us?”

What had happened was a startling electoral shift in which Republicans captured more than 40 percent of the Latino vote in the presidential election, doubling the GOP share of just eight years earlier.”

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