NewsWhore
07-04-2008, 03:30 PM
Maybe not for President, but Hector "El Torito" Acosta has been asked to be part of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. The goal is to get a foothold on the Latino vote, and in particular the Dominican vote. Pundits have speculated that Obama has yet to secure Latino votes and explain that some Latinos might be apprehensive about voting for a relative unknown. Quoted in Listin Diario, Acosta, one of the most popular and respected musicians in the DR, said, "for a candidate of that magnitude, from a country like the US, to take into account a humble Dominican for his campaign and believe that I can help him in his campaign is grand and is a motive for satisfaction and pride." Acosta didn't provide any details other than that an announcement would be made in New York or Miami.
The Dominican community in the US is getting bigger. Listin Diario writes that Dominicans in the US grew by 7.4% between 2005 and 2006 going from 1,347,210 to 1,454,987. There will be 18.2 million Latinos registered to vote in this year's election, up from 2.1 million in 2004. Latinos make up 15% of the US population with a total of 46 million people and have become a formidable group in the US.
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The Dominican community in the US is getting bigger. Listin Diario writes that Dominicans in the US grew by 7.4% between 2005 and 2006 going from 1,347,210 to 1,454,987. There will be 18.2 million Latinos registered to vote in this year's election, up from 2.1 million in 2004. Latinos make up 15% of the US population with a total of 46 million people and have become a formidable group in the US.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)