How The GOP Can Use Immigration To Win Over Latino Voters

How The GOP Can Use Immigration To Win Over Latino Voters

Mary Mata July 28, 2011

Despite promoting controversial anti-immigration legislation and impeding access to educational resources for Latinos, the Republican Party has devoted the last five decades to establishing inroads with second- and third-generation Latino […]

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 […]

President Obama: Help Latino Voters Help You

Mary Mata

President Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza conference today and touched on several things, among them were reasons why his administration has been unable to bring […]

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, […]

Can Racist Laws Spur Latino Political Participation?

Mary Mata July 21, 2011

It’s an interesting question being posed in a story by Julián Aguilar in a story about Texas’ own version of Arizona’s SB 1070, which was SB 9 and ultimately died […]

How To Ensure Prosperity For 1.5 Million Latinos

Mary Mata July 20, 2011

Texas congressional candidate Joaquín Castro says he has a winning formula for economic prosperity for the nearly 1.5 million Latinos that reside in a cluster of six central Texas counties […]

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 […]