Lit Drop co-conspirator Gin Dumcius has this cycle's first hard look at the minority voting block in Boston in this week's Dorchester Reporter:

"But the question remains... Will Tom Menino continue to have a virtual lock on the votes of the black and minority community as he makes a bid
for a historic fifth term?...

“I would argue that the minority community will be the battleground,” said Horace Small, executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods. “Sam needs them. Mike needs them. It’s going to be won or lost in the communities of color.”"