L.A.tinos: Barack Who?
Just hours before Hillary and Barack’s one on one tinsel town debate, the California Latino community don’t know who Obama is:
Obama? We just don’t know him,” says Hortensia, a Mexican arts and crafts seller at a bustling market in East Los Angeles, the heart of this city’s Hispanic community.
With just days to go until California holds its crucial February 5 primary, Hortensia’s sentiments are a common refrain among Democrat-leaning Hispanics as they weigh the merits of front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
But Obama’s attempts to wrest Latino support away from Clinton appear to have had little effect in California, where a recent Field poll gave the former first lady a 59 percent to 19 percent lead over Obama among Latinos.
Don’t know Obama, how about this. Obama is the MOST Liberal Senator in the US Senate. And while many Latinos are unsure, the one group that just love him are the undocumented illegal population:
Obama has gained support among some Latino leaders however, including the Mexican American Political Association’s president Nativo Lopez.
Lopez told AFP that his organization supported Obama because of the Illinois senator’s record as an advocate of social projects, opposition to the construction of a US-Mexico border wall and support for undocumented workers to be allowed to apply for driving licenses.
I can only imagine what the two candidates are going to “offer” tonight to garner support and votes.
— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx