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Commentary: They put azul in the blue wave

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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