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A case of having the right idea in the wrong state: “Two taxi companies in Salt Lake City announced that from now through Nov. 6 they will provide free transport for all Latinos who need it to get to the polling places so they can do their civic duty. The service, organized by the Utah Read More
President Barack H. Obama and Governor Mitt Romney faced off against one another Tuesday evening for their second presidential debate in a town hall forum that touched upon both domestic and foreign policy issues. From the get-go, Obama appeared relaxed but struggled to catch up to Romney as the debate went on, as the former Read More
I misrepresented the facts yesterday, but it’s not my fault — Latinos have even more political potential than most experts previously believed. From the Pew Hispanic Center: “A record 23.7 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a Read More
I’m always hearing people badmouth the electoral process. Our votes don’t matter, they say. Everything’s run by corporations anyway. Pardon the farm talk, but that’s a steaming pile of bull sundae. Voting does matter. This is still a republic, Ben Franklin would tell us, so long as we keep it that way. Sure, Citizens United Read More
Prominent figures in the Republican Party are already distancing themselves from their presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, more than a month before his likely loss to President Obama. Even popular Latino leaders in the party, the same leaders invited to speak in front of the Republican National Convention in Tampa just a month earlier, seem to Read More
The best manipulative political arguments are made by taking a complicated issue and giving a simplistic answer to promote your own opinion. As the November election draws near, new voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting based on the simple concept Read More
Justice Sonia Sotomayor famously extolled the virtue of a “wise Latina” back in 2009, and if she was right, recent polling numbers should give Romney more news to sweat over. According to the most recent impreMedia/Latino Decisions tracking poll, 74 percent of Latina voters plan to vote for the president, compared to 21 percent of Read More
Former Massachusetts governor and current bumbling presidential hopeful Mitt Romney delivered remarks to a group of Latino business leaders, in which he attacked President Obama for the high unemployment rate among Latinos and Congress’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform. “Candidate Obama said that one of his highest priorities would be to fix immigration in Read More
Some good-ish news came out of the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday. As reported by Fox News Latino: “The number of Hispanics in poverty in the United States dropped by 1.2 percent from 2010 to 2011 – the largest drop of any group – but overall 1 of 4 Latinos remain stuck among America’s poorest. Read More
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 states with photo ID laws, says a new study. The lower turnout among voters under the age of 30 could affect several House races as well as the tight presidential contest. Read More