Tommy pulled over a chair and sat right in front of six television sets with his eyes glued to Rosario Kennedy as she answered questions.
The first topic was not about race but employment and the economy. This was a stratagem devised by David Kennedy to catch the other candidates off guard. Owing to the extensive lead-in publicity that spouted slogans about the Eighteenth District's seat belonging to Cubans, at least all the candidates on stage were led to believe that racial issues were paramount. They devoted significant efforts toward it, courting the Cuban-American voters, but Rosario did not have to do so because she herself was Cuban-American.