LOOKING AHEAD ... L.A. Times 2-col. lead, "Black votes matter up North too: African American voters appear poised to reward Clinton's loyalty with victory in Michigan and beyond," by Cathleen Decker in Detroit: "African American voters steadied Hillary Clinton's campaign in the South and now are poised to propel her forward in a corridor of Northern industrial states where voting kicks off with Tuesday's Michigan primary. Much has been made nationally of the power of Latino voters, but black voters actually had more pull in the 2012 presidential election, according to a study by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
"It found that African Americans accounted for President Obama's victories in seven states with 112 electoral votes - without which the nation's first black president would have lost the White House. ... Latinos, by contrast, determined the outcome in four states with 49 electoral votes; without them, Obama still would have been reelected." http://lat.ms/1R18ynD
