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Howard Dean will campaign for Dina Titus for Congress and the Obama-Biden Campaign in Las Vegas, NV where Dean will attend a campaign meet and greet with Titus campaign volunteers.
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Howard Dean will campaign for Dina Titus for Congress and the Obama-Biden Campaign in Las Vegas, NV where Dean will attend a campaign meet and greet with Titus campaign volunteers.
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Dean and his "Register for Change" tour campaigned in dozens of states, registering thousands of voters and recruiting hundreds of volunteers.
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DNC Chairman Howard Dean said the sum is unprecedented for a presidential campaign and represents a show of Democratic confidence that Latino voters could prove pivotal in states including New Mexico and Michigan. [...]
Targets will include Florida; Western states such as Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico; and Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, industrial battlegrounds with sizable Hispanic populations.
The money will be spent on niche advertising and other outreach, along with mobilization efforts aimed at identifying, registering and turning out new Democratic voters.
Over the weekend, the campaign held a training session in Las Vegas to teach local organizers how to canvass Hispanic communities.
A similar forum will be held soon in Florida, Dean said, and sessions in other states are in the planning stages.
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Although Republican rival John McCain represents Arizona, a state with a strong Hispanic presence, Dean cited a poll last week by the Pew Hispanic Center showing Obama's approval rating with registered Latino voters at 66 percent nationwide, compared with 23 percent for McCain.