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Texas, Wisconsin Voter-ID Laws Blocked by Court Actions

NewsTaco October 10, 2014

*This is very big news. A game-changer for the November mid-terms? VL By Laurel Calkins, Edvard Pettersson and Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Wisconsin and Texas, with some of the strictest […]

“More Hispanic Than Thou”?

NewsTaco October 9, 2014

How Justice Sotomayor Is ‘Busting’ The Supreme Court’s Steady Rhythms

NewsTaco October 8, 2014

The effect of Spanish on Republicans

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*Fascinating, this verifies what many of us knew to be true: “For Democrats, it made no significant difference which version of the clip they viewed; but Republicans exposed to Spanish […]

President Luis Gutierrez? Latino group begins draft movement

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*Here’s the timeline: Centro Sin Fronteras will begin gathering signatures on a petition on Nov. 4. If Pres. Obama doesn’t act on immigration by Nov. 27 CSF will act on […]

Even Bigoted Hispanics Will Vote for Blacks—and 4 Other Surprises About ‘Latino America’

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*Two things are surprising about this article published in the National Journal: the headline that reads “Even bigoted Hispanics will vote for blacks… ” belies a lack of awareness of […]

Seriously flawed Latino polling in Georgia leads to wildly incorrect speculation

NewsTaco October 7, 2014

*Georgia is considered a swing sate because of it’s growing Latino voting population. Pollsters are trying to gauge the Latino vote, but their methodology falls short – when pollsters work […]