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The GOP Latino Primary Path: Downhill From Here
If there is a tendency for Latino voters to favor the Republican party, small as the tendency may be, we’ve heard it loudly in the Florida primary. From here on […]
Where Do Romney, Santorum And Perry Stand On Latino Issues? In Today’s Latino Politics Headlines
Why 2012 will be Obama-Clinton vs. Romney-Rubio: My political prediction for 2012: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton versus Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio. Where Mitt Romney Stands on Issues of Import to Latino Voters: From his stance on gun […]
25 Million Latinos Lose If Congress Doesn’t Extend Payroll Tax Cut
The payroll tax cut is set to expire by the end of the year. If Congress doesn’t extend President Obama’s tax cut, 160 million families — and 25 million Latinos […]
How Texas’ Redistricting Lawsuit Really Went Down
A lawsuit over new state and congressional districts that disenfranchised Latino voters in Texas just wrapped up. A panel of three federal judges redrew the map for the upcoming 2012 […]
Obama’s Political Calculus on Immigration
Just a week before announcing the launch of his reelection campaign President Barack Obama sent a message to selected Immigration activists in congress: cool it. The purposely quiet campaign launch made […]
GOP Tries To Spark Black-Brown Fight
Republicans were charged by Black lawmakers on Wednesday of stoking tensions between the African American and Latino communities by arguing during a hearing that if it were not for illegal […]
GOP Record on Hiring Latino Staffers is Dismal
All things being equal, Latinos stand a better chance at being congressional staffers if the congressperson is a Democrat as opposed to a Republican. Someone actually took pencil to paper […]