cadava: could i go without one first? i feel like i've been talking a lot but i will try to go quickly. fundamentally, you run the risk of misunderstanding electoral outcomes if you ignore latino politics. i will .24 elections. point 24 elections. the 1976 presidential election, 1996 presidential election, the 2000 presidential election, the 2012 presidential election the 1976 election, many analysts put a lot of weight on texas. which carter won by not many votes. it was in the 10 thousands. the argument afterwards, if ford if one out of 10 mexican americans had shifted their vote from carter to ford, ford would have won. why did ford lose texas? maybe it was because he bit into -- and mexican americans did not like him after that. maybe it was because ronald reagan was much more popular, but certainly, that is a part of the story of the texas -- how texas voted in 1976. in 1996, this was, you know, a couple of years after 187, --ion 187, billsition 187, but the was seen largely as a product of the republican house, and,