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Mannie Rodriguez Dept: The change has been gradual, but its impact has been dramatic, with Democrats capturing all the growth, and Republicans confined to a shrinking piece of the pie, according to Globe and Mail. You can certainly forgive Latino Democrats here a bit of a gloating. We stopped Romney in his tracks, said Mannie Rodriguez, the jubilant 64-year-old chairman of the Democrats Latino initiative in Colorado, where the Latino population has risen 45 per cent in a decade. The message is you d better get out there and get the Latino vote if you want to win. Indeed, only one segment went to Republican Mitt Romney: He drew 62 per cent of white men and 56 per cent of white women and video: Time for Republican Party to re-brand Consider, for instance, Colorado. The state was reliably red in former presidential races, but has now twice backed Mr. Obama. To understand that shift, look at those exit polls 14 per cent of the state s voters were Latino, and three-quarters of them backed the President. It was enough to clinch the state, and the race. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.