Obama, McCain, and the Hispanic Vote

Published June 16, 2008 2:30pm ET



Both the McCain and Obama camps know Hispanic voters represent a key swing constituency in 2008. And the two presidential campaigns will pull out all the stops to persuade these voters. R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler recently offered a thoughtful analysis–from the Democratic perspective–focusing on how the Obama campaign can and must do better with this group than John Kerry did in 2004. These two analysts observe George W. Bush overperformed among Hispanic voters in the last presidential election:

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