Si Se Puede

More good news from the front lines in CA: 

“The leadership and membership of MAPA have resolved to endorse Senator Barack Obama as the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, who also just happens to be African American."

The Los Angeles based MAPA, formed in 1963, “has been, and is, dedicated to the constitutional and democratic principle of political freedom and representation for the Mexican and Hispanic people of the United States of America.”
This is something akin to, say, if the NAACP or another long established civil rights organization were to endorse Clinton suddenly today, because it is cutting into the rival candidate’s base.

Update: Another kind of inroad: First Read reports that the 200,000-strong Transportation Workers Union, which had been with Edwards, voted to back Obama today. “The union would be the first national AFL-CIO union to endorse Obama.” Its largest local represents the New York City subway workers.

Update II: Another huge Spanish-language radio host, Renán Almendárez Coello of El Cucuy de la Mañana, after a live interview with Obama, told the senator, “Ojala nos vemos en la Casa Blanca,” which means, “god willing, we’ll see each other in the White House.”