Leid Stories - The New Voting Bloc to Obama: ”Andale!” - 11/09/12

Among the precedents set in the 2012 election is the definitive emergence of a Latino voting bloc that played a pivotal role in the re-election of President Barack Obama. Louis DiSipio, a political scientist and professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of California-Irvine, discusses the coalition of heretofore disparate Spanish-speaking constituencies, their formation as a new electorate, and the impact this voting sector is likely to have on of U.S. politics and in the theater of hemispheric affairs.