Commentary: They put azul in the blue wave
by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times
Nov 26, 2018
3 minutes
Hundreds of thousands of midterm votes are still being counted across the United States, but you can already verify this result: The Democratic blue wave contained a lot of azul.
The national Democratic Party, which - after ignoring Latinos for too long - wised up and spent more than $30 million to get out the vote and turnout was 174 percent higher than in the 2014 midterms. A record number of Latinos - Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, South Americans - will enter Congress. In California,
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