Posted on: January 29th, 2008
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Sen. Hillary Clinton is relying on the big Latino vote as her firewall to prevent losing the California Democratic primary Feb. 5, the most important of 22 states up for grabs on Mega Tuesday. But that reliance, say pro-Clinton and anti-Clinton Democrats, is fraught with peril for the Democratic Partys coalition by threatening to alienate its essential African-American component.
Clintons double-digit lead in California polls over Sen. Barack Obama is misleading. Subtract a Latino voting bloc whose dependability to show up Election Day always has been shaky, and Clinton is no better than even in the state, with Obama gaining. To encourage this brown firewall, the Clinton campaign may be drifting into encouragement of brown vs. black racial conflict by condoning Latino racial hostility toward the first African-American with a chance to become president.”*
*From: http://www.suntimes.com
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