Latino vote, a sleeping giant, has been awakened [View all]

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It's payback time. For years, the Republican Party has dreamed that it could win over Latino voters. Well, the dream is over in an election year in which most Latino voters will shun the Republican Party. And there isn't a thing that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump can do to awaken from what they and their party have created: an electoral nightmare.

This Republican reckoning has been in the works for a long time. When the party turned against the Civil Rights Act in the '60s, concocting its southern strategy to win disaffected white Democrats, it signed a deal with the devil known as racism. Each passing election brought the party of Lincoln closer and closer to official bigotry.

- http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Parker-Latino-vote-a-sleeping-giant-has-been-7304507.php

Donald Trump is the eternal gift to the Democrats this year, I don't think everyone truly sees the enormity of the fear and loathing he has engendered in minority communities, particularly Latinos.