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Carpe DREAM

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Undocumented immigrants and their allies are divided on how to move forward with immigration reform. From Huff Post Latino Voices: “Nearly 600 would-be Dream Act beneficiaries and their allies, who helped in a successful push earlier this year for relief for undocumented young people, gathered in Kansas City, Mo., this weekend to determine their path Read More

Massachusetts to grant in-state tuition to DREAMers

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I know a popular Massachusetts governor who might be president someday. And, no, I’m not talking about Mitt Romney. From the Boston Globe: “Governor Deval Patrick will direct state colleges and universities Monday to allow young illegal immigrants to pay the lower resident rate for tuition and fees as soon as they obtain work permits Read More

Romney: Obama promised gifts to Latino voters

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I thought the Republican presidential candidate would simply evaporate into the ether after the election, but apparently he wasn’t the only one living in fantasyland. From the Los Angeles Times: “Mitt Romney told his top donors Wednesday that his loss to President Obama was a disappointing result that neither he nor his top aides had Read More

Voting and waiting and hoping

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Election Day is finally here. We must prepare ourselves for one of two likely scenarios: first, that we’ll be living in a Romney America for the next four years, and second, that we’ll be stuck in an Obama America for the next four years. I say “stuck” because Obama himself is stuck in an Obama Read More

Guest prediction: Romney will win big

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The 2012 presidential campaign has finally reached the last leg of a very long journey, and it’s now the last-minute sprint to the finish line. The answer as to who will win this election is quite clear. Governor Mitt Romney has since the first debate in October been gaining steam. He’s proven himself time and Read More

The politics of Sandy

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Hurricane Sandy rolled through the East Coast this week causing mass flooding, leaving millions without power and, lest we forget, ruining Halloween for countless children. Mother nature has insane timing and the ability to divert our national attention from the last week of a Presidential election to more pressing matters. That is not to say politics are not Read More

Romney proves again he’s presidential timber

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Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack H. Obama held their third and final presidential debate last week in Florida, and despite expectations that it would be a major bloodbath, the debate proved to be one of style more than anything else. As the debate went on it was evident Romney chose not to lower himself Read More

Obama: If I win, it’ll be because of Latinos

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I really didn’t want to post another Obama blurb today, but I had to say something about the news out of Iowa. After the Obama campaign initially insisted that an interview the president had with the Des Moines Register on Tuesday be kept off the record, the news media spent most of Wednesday morning calling Read More

Can Latinos shape Utah election? No.

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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

Gay marrying the words ‘gay’ & ‘Republican’

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Yesterday the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) endorsed Mitt Romney. If you haven’t heard about these folks, there is an actually a group of LGBT* activists who stand proud as Republicans. I’ll give you a moment to digest that. For years the LCR defense of being Republican has been simple — they have organized in an Read More