'They've Dismissed Us': How Latino Voter Outreach Still Falls Short

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

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Latinos are the second largest group of eligible voters by race or ethnicity in the United States, but they continue to be misunderstood and underappreciated by political campaigns of all parties. Sam talks to Lisa García Bedolla, a scholar of Latino politics, about how the word "Latino" encompasses diverse communities of all political stripes and life experiences, and he checks in with the former mayor of a small town in Texas who's been thinking of Latino voter outreach for a long time.

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0:00.0	Can you hear me?
0:00.8	I can.
0:01.6	Okay, thank you for your patience.
0:04.1	First things first, tell our listeners your full name
0:08.8	and whatever title you want to go by.
0:11.4	Yeah, I'm Victor Lial, it's VICTOR, L-E-A-L.
0:17.1	I live in a small town on the South Plains
0:21.0	called Mule Shoot, Texas.
0:22.7	And I guess I'm the owner, operator of Lial's Mexican Food
0:28.8	Restaurants.
0:29.7	Yes, you heard that right.
0:31.3	Victor Lial is from Mule Shoot, Texas.
0:34.8	Oh, you don't know where that is?
0:36.2	You got to be kidding, I mean, I'm, I'm,
0:38.0	would be shocked if there's anybody out there in the United
0:40.7	States that doesn't know where Mule Shoot is.
0:42.7	But in case there are, what are two people that don't know?
0:46.5	We are on the South Plains.
0:48.8	Mule Shoot, we're about 30 miles from the New Mexico border.
0:53.5	We're between.
0:54.1	So Victor Lial, besides when in that restaurant,
0:56.9	he is really involved in politics.
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