Colorado’s Latina/Latino Gender Gap

Colorado’s Latina/Latino Gender Gap

Mary Mata September 14, 2012

By Rob Preuhs, Latino Decisions The gender gap remains a prominent fixture in this election cycle and the recent Republican National Convention highlighted what some interpreted as the Romney campaign’s attempt […]

Vice President Joe Biden: Latinos are the Most Powerful Force in Politics

Mary Mata

By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi  The Vice President echoed what is indirectly said about the Latino vote during the many speeches and events held on a national scale this election year. […]

Morning NewsTaco

NewsTaco

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 […]

Voters Feel Intimidated by Election Observers

Mary Mata September 13, 2012

By AJ Vicens and Natasha Khan, News21 As Jamila Gatlin waited in line at a northside Milwaukee elementary school gym to cast her ballot June 5 in the proposed recall […]

Morning NewsTaco

NewsTaco

Thursday September 13, 2012 Romney, Obama to appeal to Hispanics in back-to-back broadcasts (EFE/Fox News Latino): Spanish-language network Univision will broadcast the forums “to discuss education and the future of […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]