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Democrats make their pitch to Hispanic viewers.
Byline: Tal Abbady, Ruth Morris and Elizabeth Baier
MIAMI _ In a historic political screen test, seven Democratic presidential candidates made their pitch to millions of Hispanic viewers on topics that ranged from immigration to health care in the first ever presidential debate to be broadcast in Spanish.
Broadcast by the Spanish-language network Univision from the University of Miami campus, the debate revealed few distinctions among candidates' views on immigration and Latin America policy, health care and education, and sparked limited disagreement on when the United States should withdraw troops from Iraq.
Primarily, the seven presidential candidates in attendance attempted to show a personal affinity with the country's 17 million eligible Hispanic voters _ often pointing out their own immigrant roots _ as they answered questions from anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas. The anchors asked questions in Spanish that were translated into English for the candidates, then translated into Spanish for…
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