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

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

Mary Mata September 12, 2012

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 […]

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 Hispanics and values: How the GOP and the DNC address Hispanic issues (Washington Post): Most political observers believe that the reason why, despite their primarily conservative values, […]

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 […]

Voting Rights Battles Re-emerge In The South

Mary Mata

By Nick Andersen, Kassondra Cloos and Caitlin Donnell, News21 Raymond Rutherford has voted for decades. But this year, he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to cast a ballot. The Sumter, […]

Speaking Spanish Can Make Or Break Latino Politicos

Mary Mata

By Tony Castro, Voxxi The most beloved Hispanic politician I have known in a long history of reporting on Latino politics wasn’t even Hispanic. He was a Baptist Irishman who […]

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Mary Mata

Tuesday September 11, 2012 Unemployment Rates Highest Amongst Black And Latinos (Huffington Post): The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report, shows that black and Latino unemployment remain critically elevated and may present […]

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 […]