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NEVADA'S caucuses turned a simmering subtext of the Democratic presidential nomination contest into a dominant narrative. South Carolina winnowed out a Republican candidate, whether Mike Huckabee knows it or not, and the candidate who counted on being winnowed in there, Fred Thompson, wasn't. Speaking in the sunshine after in Nevada, Hillary Clinton said there were many people to thank, but mentioned only one: Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles' Hispanic mayor. She won 64 percent of Nevada's Hispanic vote. Although the culinary workers union had endorsed Barack Obama, many of its workers are Hispanic and went their own way.
The 22 Democratic primaries and caucuses of Feb. 5 occur in many states with huge Hispanic populations (e.g., California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois), so for Obama's campaign, the suddenly pressing question is: Will America's largest minority, Hispanics, support a candidate from the second-largest minority, blacks?See the full content of this document
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Hispanics Crucial for Dems; Huckabee's Last Niche
Also, Obama seems flummoxed by the Clintons' Clintonness. When he committed the gaffe (defined as the utterance of a truth in conditions inhospitable to the truth) of saying that for many years t...
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