Warren Courts Minority Vote in Massachusetts Senate Race
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On a main street in a heavily black and Latino neighborhood south of Boston, the windows of Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s campaign office were plastered with signs for President Barack Obama. Outside, a Baptist minister giving an invocation addressed the U.S. Senate candidate as “Sister Elizabeth.”
For Warren, who’s running to unseat Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts, the office opening in Roxbury last month is part of a plan to avoid the fate that befell the last Democrat to seek the office. In 2010, blacks and Latinos stayed home and helped Brown win the seat held by Ted Kennedy for almost 47 years. This year, Warren has marched in ethnic parades, run editorials in a black-owned newspaper and held a forum sponsored by the NAACP.