The divergent choices by minority voters reflect broad issues of loyalty and identity, observers said, rather than specific differences in the candidates' stances on issues. "There is so little distance between the policies, it comes down to personality, style and name recognition," said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, based in Los Angeles. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This is just a rehash of conventional wisdom from but one perspective. Considering the data as reported elsewhere the racial component of the vote is complicated by the gender component and the fact both blacks and hispanics tend to be more misogynistic than whites. A lot of questions need to be answered and it is unlikely the right questions have even been asked, like how many southerners would not vote for a woman as apposed to the rest of the country. How many latino men would not vote for a woman, and how many black men would not vote for a woman; and then correlate that with how many women would not vote for a black candidate, etc., etc. Both race and gender are in the Democratic primary interlocking complex factors that are unlikely to be researched fully and sorted out for some time to come. To come to any conclusions is premature and of necessity misleading.
