What Hillary’s Victory May Mean for NY Latinos

Looking over the NY Times’s coverage of voter turnout in New York on Tuesday reveals another interesting twist to this discussion of emergent v. insurgent voting blocs, at least as it pertains to Nueva York’s Latinos. Crazy as this may sound, but if Hillary Clinton wins in November, African American politicians who supported her stand to lose as much, if not more than if they had supported Obama.

Here’s a rationale: Obama’s victory in central Brooklyn and his ability to record a split in Congressman Charles Rangel’s district in Harlem reiterated a national trend of African American votes steering in his direction. For example, in Brooklyn Obama received an endorsement from Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who shares the senator’s profile as a charismatic emerging political star. Meanwhile in Harlem, Rangel, the dean of black democrats, older and like his fellow black political patriarch, Andrew Young, failed to deliver a victory for Clinton. Rangel’s failure should not have been a surprise considering Obama’s recent success in South Carolina, but this observation does nothing to replace the political capital that Rangel aggressively extended on Clinton’s behalf even as her support among his Harlem constituents plummeted.”*

*From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

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