In Obama’s Pursuit of Latinos, Race Plays Role


By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: January 15, 2008
LAS VEGAS — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has eaten beef tacos in East Los Angeles and sat on the living room couch of a working-class family in a largely Hispanic neighborhood here for 30 televised minutes. At a rally of the culinary workers’ union in the shadows of the Strip here one night, Senator Barack Obama pumped his fist and chanted with the crowd, “¡SÃ*, se puede; sÃ*, se puede; sÃ*, se puede!â€