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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
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
Congratulations to President Barack Hussein Obama on his less than triumphant victory in his reelection. Obama secured a second term but without a national mandate, given how close he came to losing the popular vote. And he knows this very well. In 2008, he won the presidency by 10 million votes — or the combined Read More
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
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
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
While Hurricane Sandy was pummeling BL headquarters, impreMedia and Latino Decisions published the results of their latest tracking poll showing record enthusiasm among the Latino electorate. “Forty-five percent of Latino voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting in 2012 compared to 2008,” Latino Decisions stated. “That number is up from 37% from ten weeks Read More
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
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
A sad day in American politics: “In a move drawing fire from voter ID law supporters, the largest global election monitoring organization is sending an unprecedented number of observers to U.S. polling stations, paying particular attention to any signs of voter intimidation. The website of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe says that Read More