Latino lessons – Super Tuesday: The Latino vote is suddenly a hot topic. How its true potential manifests in this election remains to be seen

Pundits like to talk about voting groups in big sweeping swaths – you’ll hear African Americans are voting for Obama in huge numbers, Clinton needs women, Evangelicals are for Huckabee. And often in American politics those easy umbrella terms work. But one easy phrase is a little more complicated than all the rest: the suddenly oft-discussed Latino vote.

We in the media had taken to easily, and dismissively, pontificating that Hillary Clinton has locked up the Latino vote. She counted on Latinos first in Nevada, and then looked across the country to California, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey and Arizona where, ostensibly, they were to push her into the winner’s box giving margins of 3:2 over Obama. Obama, it seemed, was too “late” to get into the wooing Latinos game and Republicans have lost them almost entirely. “*

*From: commentisfree.guardian.co.uk
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