Reply #77: What I've seen in my area is white Democratic candidates [View All]

[Cleita]

who tend to ignore our rather large Hispanic population here. We have a Republican assemblyman who is Mexican American. I have seen three white guys lose to him because the Democrats don't seem to understand that they need a candidate who can go into the Latino neighborhoods and relate to these people and who also can maneuver through the white constituency as well. A candidate like that would win the Democratic Mexican American base who tend to vote for this Republican because he's Mexican American and appears to be moderate. But to these three white guys, the Hispanics weren't even visible to them.