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It's funny, in my office the phone started going off-the-hook about four weeks ago
when they realized that there's Latinos among us, 50 million of them. And I
think it's very much in the dialogue of why it's so important to start ensuring,
1: that we're building the infrastructure today,
so that we're not scrambling for voter engagement and outreach tomorrow.
At the same time, how do we actually identify unlikely partners, so
that the message is not just within the Latino community, but also influencing
their friends and family. And that's something we're looking at. But it's absolutely going to
be, it's absolutely going to be crucial,
only if for the sheer reason that the 2008 electoral map is
completely irrelevant now because of where new congressional seats are going
to be popping up, in
the south, where they weren't before, in such record numbers, and states that are going to be
in play that weren't before. For example, Texas looks like it actually has
a high possibility. There's 3.8 million eligible Latino voters, there's two
new congressional seats that we're going to see. And it's going to be exciting
to actually have Latinos coming out to the polls. But in order to do
that we need to make sure that we're asking them,
we're engaging them with education, and at the end of the day giving them materials so that they can
continue empowering themselves and their families.