Can Latinos Change Utah From Red to Blue?
Can Latinos Change Utah From Red to Blue?
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco It’s known as the reddest of the red states. And a recent article in the Ogden Standard-Examiner reiterated the fact: In a state considered among the […]
Latino Vote Key To Replace Jesse Jackson Jr.
By Janell Ross, Huffington Post Latino Voices In 2011, as Illinois politicians redrew congressional district maps, they exercised a power grab that was intended to protect those already in office or even […]
Latina Politicians Battling in Texas
By Hector Luis Alamo Jr., Being Latino Two Latinas are battling it out in Texas — and, no, they’re not clawing at each other over a suave macho like in […]
Latino Political Influence ‘Will be felt for Generations’
By Tony Castro, Voxxi Hispanics will account for 40 percent of the growth in the American electorate between now and 2030, ballooning to about 40 million Latinos eligible to cast […]
Latinos, Be Careful What You Wish For
By Arnold Torres, New America Media/Hispanic Link News Service There is growing doubt today whether our political system is able to deal with the realities that confront us and significantly […]
Will the Supreme Court Dismantle the Voting Rights Act?
By Raul A. Reyes, Other Words Well, that didn’t take long. Just three days after a diverse coalition of voters re-elected President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court announced that it’s […]
Latino Voting Power Can Create Better Education Reform
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco Finally, Republicans and Democrats know that they need more than mariachis playing behind them to win the Latino vote. By now, almost everyone heard about the […]
Pre-Election Polls Got it Wrong in Florida
By Casey A. Kolfstad, Latino Decisions Gary Segura recently provided a discussion of how exit polls often misrepresent Latino voters (Badly!), pointing out that exit polls often rely on small samples […]
Latinos Support Legalizing Gay Marriage, Exit Polls Show
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices Conservatives may have another problem wooing Hispanic voters. Latino voters are more likely than the electorate in general to support gay marriage, according […]
New Media Strategies for Reaching Latino Voters
By Jesse Luna, NewsTaco This election season, voters accessed candidate and proposition information in many more ways than in previous years. We still received the stack of campaign literature in […]