Obama campaign courts Latinos in Hayward

When time came to vote for a new mayor in June 2006, turnout at the precinct along Harris Road was the city’s second-lowest.

Only 23.6 percent of registered voters either mailed absentee ballots or showed up at the Tyrrell Elementary School cafeteria on election day, compared with the 35.6 percent citywide average, according to the Alameda County registrar of voters.

But that didn’t matter to a small crew of grass-roots organizers for presidential candidate Barack Obama who bombarded the apartment-heavy neighborhood with unexpected attention on a chilly and breezy Sunday afternoon.”*

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