Latino voters to candidates: What are we, chopped chorizo?

Only 12 million, of the 21 million Latinos eligible to vote, will vote in November. This could be part of the reason candidates are ignoring them. Why don't more of them vote? That would get candidates' attention. - - Donna Poisl

by Mary Sanchez

American politicians have a Latino problem. And it isn’t the stereotypical immigrant patting tortillas, singing corridos in Spanish or sneaking across the border.

Their problem is the Hispanic U.S. citizen — more likely than not to be assimilated, English-speaking and preoccupied with issues that have nothing to do with their ethnicity. Latinos make up a rapidly growing demographic group, and voting bloc, yet Democrats and Republicans alike fail to grasp their concerns and aspirations.
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