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Carolyn Hileman | January 31, 2008
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) name is gold in the Latino community, and his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was timed Monday to bridge the widest racial divide working against Obama’s presidential ambitions. But with time running short before many of the most heavily Latino states vote, it could be too little, too late. The Kennedy family’s historical affinity with Latinos, along with Kennedy’s work last year to pass an immigration bill that included a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, makes his backing one of the most important to many Latinos.
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