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Hillary Clinton‘s campaign crew is actively seeking Latino voters to offset what they think is the fact that Barack Obama will be getting the majority of the black vote.

Senator Clinton’s campaign is bracing for a possible swing of black voters toward her chief rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, by focusing more attention on Hispanic voters. With one eye on the nomination and the other on the general election, Clinton, 59, has seeded her staff with Spanish-speaking operatives, starting with Patti Solis Doyle, her campaign manager.“I’m taking this one personally,” Solis Doyle said. “In 2004, Republicans made some inroads with the Hispanic vote. It’s our intention to get that vote back.”Hispanics may play a key role in the 2008 Democratic nominating process as well. Obama, 46, whose father was Kenyan, will “probably draw about 60 percent of the African-American community,” said Representative Edolphus Towns, a black Democrat from New York who has endorsed Clinton. To win, “she’s going to have to beat him in the Hispanic community.”

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