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You're doing work in san diego on behalf of democrats there. >> mm-hmm. >> and what we're talking about here, the issue of hispanics becoming a growing demographic group, and it's just helping democrats left and right. they should not be surviving in a place like san diego right now under the circumstances with which they just lost an office, remember, and yet they might? >> and san diego's becoming a democratic city because of the growth of the hispanic population. there are probably about 33 congressional districts, some held by democrats, and some held by republicans, where the hispanic vot...

And immigration is something to run on. >> but it's not just that there are a lot of congressional republicans who are in districts without a huge hispanic population, and this is -- >> which, by the way, is self-fulfilling. it's sort of, if you don't represent hispanics, then you don't know who you to talk to hispanics, you don't campaign for their vote, et cetera. >> there are some who think this issue is overrated as the key to unlocking that vote, and getting a hearing. there are folks who say, look, if we do this, don't we come back with a fight over liberalizing the guest worker rules? d...

Deal to get him out of office last august, and he's been touting that on his side. >> obviously, san diego, for years, it's been a republican bastion of sorts, pete wilson, san diego has a history of electing republican mayors, but in the last decade, we've seen a very sort of -- you've seen this shift, mostly driven, i think, by demographics and the growth of hispanics, where democrats started to win more local elections. in this case, if republicans can't win now, under these circumstances, in san diego, do you look at this and say, this could spell the end of them for a while until things c...

>> but like a lot of texas towns, pasadena has changed radically since the days when john travolta walked the streets in a 10-gallon hat. >> pasadena no longer a small town but a not-so mrks small city. >> the changes come in the last ten years, thanks to explosive growth in the hispanic population, which has risen in a decade from 48% to 62%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the voting population. while the hispanic population accounts for a majority of pasadena residents, hispanics make up only 32% of the city's voters, but th...

They hit a milestone with 1 million but can't be content. there is a long way to go for 7 million and the threat of the penalty isn't sufficient. they need to go on offense without pandering and make clear this makes sense. the catastrophic option that is inexpensive is one of the hurdles this legislation faces. young people are key to making this marketplace work. there is a lot of room for improvement. >> in addition to that, pa trishia, you write about the digital dwight between obamacare and the hispanic population. "even when the federal enrollment tools become available in spanish, some ...