California: Jerry Brown Won Thanks to
Hispanic Support
(AP) -- Half of the 12 million Hispanics in the U.S. voted in the mid-term elections.
In California, where the Latino vote was 18%, $141 million could not buy the state capitol.
Meg Whitman Republican candidate, who won 46% of the vote, was defeated by Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, 76, who got 50% of the vote and becomes the oldest governor of California.
In this way the Republican Party lost the governorship recovered in 2003 in the recall of Gray Davis.
According to an exit poll of Latino Decisions, Brown's victory was due in large part to the overwhelming support of Hispanic voters toward the Democrats, a difference than ever before 86% for Brown and 13% for Whitman.
Experts attribute the defeat of the former CEO of Ebay to mishandling after the scandal of her cleaning lady Nicky Díaz Santillán who accused to dismiss and deny your help to solve their undocumented status in the country.
For other Hispanic voters as Paola Avila of San Diego, was the curriculum of Brown, "He knows what Californians need to solve the state's problems.
"Brown, owes much to the Hispanic electorate. Tuesday he said that if elected the first thing will be, Choosing Hispanic leaders to have the opportunity to serve in my administration."
