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NewsTaco September 14, 2012

Friday September 14, 2012 Castro Says Both Candidates Need More Hispanic Outreach (Daily Political): Julian Castro, the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas and the keynote speaker at the recent Democratic National Convention said that […]

Study: Young Latino Voting Rights Threatened

Mary Mata September 12, 2012

By Hector Luis Alamo, Jr., Being Latino My fellow young Latinos, your voting rights are under attack. From Fox News Latino: “Young minority voter turnout could drop by almost 700,000 in […]

Ambassador’s Brief: The Election, The Economy and Mexico

Mary Mata

By Antonio Garza, U.S. Ambassador (Ret.) It may be just a distant memory for some, but the first week in September once unofficially signaled the start of the U.S. presidential campaign season. […]

Who Out-Latino’d Who? Assessing The RNC And DNC Latino Outreach

Mary Mata

By Matt Barreto, Latino Decisions Latino political leaders were on display at the 2012 political conventions like never before.  The Republican convention featured two Latino Governors and two Latino U.S. […]

Richard Carmona Could Be Arizona’s First Latino U.S. Senator

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By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi The U.S. Senate race in Arizona just got a lot more interesting after a new poll shows Democrat Richard Carmona neck-and-neck with Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff […]

5 Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Minority Voters

NewsTaco September 11, 2012

By Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee, ProPublica How does Texas discriminate against minority voters? Federal judges counted the ways. Last Tuesday, a panel of federal court judges ruled that new […]

Hillary And Hispanic Latinos In 2016

Mary Mata

By Jesse Treviño, HispanicLatino The just-past national conventions dropped a number of stones into the political pond ahead of 2016.  The splash from each stone might be dismissed as early […]

Tracking Poll Wave 3: No Bump in Latino Enthusiasm After Conventions

Mary Mata September 10, 2012

By Latino Decisions Despite two weeks of widespread political coverage in which both parties made an effort to reach out to Latino voters, enthusiasm about November is still very much […]

Hispanic Agenda Emerges From Political Conventions

Mary Mata

By Tony Castro, Voxxi The American Hispanic agenda beyond immigration and the Dreamers cause has emerged as a major issue coming out of the conventions — and both parties will […]

DNC Worry’s About Voter Suppression

Mary Mata

By Anthony Advincula, New America Media CHARLOTTE, N.C. —With two months left before the election, Democrats who attended the Democratic National Convention (DNC) said that time is short to address voter […]