Ken Vogel reports that the Clinton campaign is using the results to openly argue that Barack Obama has a problem with Hispanic voters — an idea Clinton backers have previously mentioned only behind the scenes.
“It was a 100 percent Hispanic primary and it shows that he has a problem with the Latino community,” Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton, told a handful of reporters after polls closed Sunday. “He cannot close in this key core constituency,” McAuliffe added.
Voters in Puerto Rico are in some ways different from Hispanics living stateside, both because there’s a long tradition of racial mixing and because elections here tend to center around the debate over whether the island should remain a commonwealth or become a state or an independent nation. They also don’t vote in November.
T4R note:
I’m not too worried about what Terry Mcauliffe has to say, after the DNC Florida, Michigan debacle Terry McAuliffe has a credibility “problem”. Someday maybe he will step forward and tell us why he voted to strip Florida and Michigan of their delegates and then turned around and said how unfair it was they were not going to be seated.Terry McAuliffe should be expelled from the Democratic party.
