Latino Votes Double

This post is over at my good buddy Mario Solis Marich, who not only has a blog, has an excellent good radio show. The post is entitled "THE SILENT (SILENCED) VOTER SURGE," and is recommended reading:

We have been inundated with the tag line that more people are voting or caucusing in the Democratic primaries than ever before. In fact that is true. The voter surge has been attributed to younger voters showing up for Barack Obama that is only partially true. In fact now that the dust is settling it is obvious that a sizable part of the voter surge has come from Latino voters. Latino voter turnout is double the number than that of 2004. [...] The media, comfortable with ignoring Latino voters, has for the first time paid some attention to this critical mobile voting block. But credit for the voter “surge” has been totally given to Obama even though Latinos have been largely Clinton voters.

"The right wing media is hard pressed to admit that the Latino sleeping giant has been awakened..."  Awesome post; go read.  (UPDATE:  A good friend points out that the comment in the post about Latino bloggers are blindly supporting him and not seeing his flaws, which is not true.  This is an argument that suggests Obama supporters think he is perfect; and is being used to discredit his supporters.)

More from Gallup (via The Politico):

The tracking data suggest [Clinton's] support advantage among
Hispanics may be eroding, at least on a national level. In the Feb.
5-9 data, Clinton led Obama by nearly 2-to-1, 63 percent to 32
percent, among Hispanic Democratic voters. In the most recent polling,
the two are essentially tied among this constituency, with 50 percent
preferring Obama and 46 percent Clinton.