Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at CaliforniaState University LosAngeles, noted that old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground union campaigning won out in the hotly contested Zimmer-Anderson race.
"Many Latinos are still reluctant to vote for an African-American candidate, period, " says Jaime Regalado, a political science professor at CaliforniaState University, LosAngeles.