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Ethnic voting blocs shift political landscape

Submitted by Martina Stewart

Jul 23, 2008

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(CNN) -- Both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are treading some unfamiliar campaign-year terrain this summer as key blocs of ethnic voters shift the electoral landscape and put previously uncontested states, big and small, up for grabs. In Montana, Obama's spring visit to a Crow reservation highlighted a fresh fight to harness the often-overlooked Native American vote and may have proved decisive. Now, his campaign is hoping support from that community might help put his effort over the top. In a string of key battleground states, from Colorado and New Mexico in the west to Florida in the east, the Hispanic vote could make the difference. Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, casts a skeptical eye on many Democrats who, he says, "look at any state that has any African-American voters and talk about how it's putting every state and district in play." But some states, he says, could "get competitive" amid a new wave of black voter registration, forcing McCain to commit resources and time to states Republican candidates can usually ignore. At the end of the primary battle between Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, Democrats worried that Hispanic voters, a majority of whom supported her, wouldn't warm to him. Read the full article

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