GOP Hopes To Avoid Immigration Issue To Win Florida

GOP Hopes To Avoid Immigration Issue To Win Florida

Mary Mata July 27, 2011

I’m not making this up, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a conference call today that the Republicans would try to skirt debate on immigration during the election, trying […]

GOP Candidates Ignore Latinos, Then Lie To Them

Mary Mata July 26, 2011

If you ask me, and no one did I’m just saying, this is a pretty lame way to treat a huge voting bloc. Let me break it down. The reason […]

GOP, Dems Want Latino Votes, What Do We Want In Return?

Mary Mata

That the Republican Party is busy recruiting Latinos is not surprising, given the recent success of Marco Rubio in Florida and Raul Labrador, the first ever Latino elected to the […]

GOP Better At Recruiting Latino Candidates Than Democrats

Mary Mata July 25, 2011

This is how it breaks down: the number of Latino Democratic politicos is down, the number of Republican Latino politicos is up. It’s not a hard calculus to understand. The […]

Democrats Recruit Latino Support With Spanish Video

Mary Mata July 22, 2011

 Not really sure what to make of this, but the Democratic National Committee has created a Spanish language video in an effort to reach out to Latinos in Reno, Las Vegas, […]

Obama Hosts White House Meeting For Latino Advocacy Groups

Mary Mata July 12, 2011

On Monday the White House held the first of a two-day Hispanic Policy Conference for community leaders from across the country and White House officials to attend an in-depth series […]

2 Supermajority Latino Districts Created In Milwaukee

Mary Mata July 6, 2011

The Milwaukee Common Council just approved a redistricting map that would include two districts with what was described as a “supermajority” of Latino voter districts. According to JSOnline, 60% of the […]

Dems In Florida Don’t Know How To Attract Latino Votes

Mary Mata

While this story in particular highlights Florida, I think it’s safe to say a similar pattern is playing itself out in the rest of the country. Although Florida’s Democratic voter […]

To Mobilize 12 Million Latinos, Register 15 Million

Mary Mata June 29, 2011

Before we begin mobilizing Latino voters for the 2012 presidential election, we must understand the population of available voters in our community as well as the total number of Latino […]

New Mexico Senate Candidate Hector Balderas Sees Change

Mary Mata

Democratic senate candidate from New Mexico Hector Balderas will tell you one thing flat out: it’s not because he’s Latino. Balderas, his home state’s former state auditor, is confident that […]