The Texas Musical Massacre

With the Texas primaries around the corner, the presidential hopefuls have wasted no time pandering to courting Latinos, who constitute over 50% of the state’s total population and could even decide the fate of the Democratic nomination. And what better way to do this than with guitars, drums, accordions and violins?

Last week, we told you about ¡Viva Obama! a mariachi song and video launched by the Amigos de Obama website, which barely one week after launch got a lot of media attention, making it not only to the nation’s top political blogs, but widely covered by several Latin American newspapers and magazines. In only a few days the video posted on YouTube reported over 230,000 views and hundreds of comments, good, bad and ugly. “*

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