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For decades now, we’ve been witnessing how American politics are becoming increasingly polarized: the left moves further left while the right moves further right. The end result is a political stalemate between lawmakers who are unwilling to compromise. The last four years have seen an unrelenting practice of obstructionism by conservatives in Congress, all in Read More
On Monday, an article reached the editorial staff at Being Latino. It appeared on the National Review Online website Monday morning and was written by Jay Nordlinger, the magazine’s award-winning senior editor. What’s noteworthy about the article — and why someone thought it might be of interest to the editors at Being Latino — jumps Read More
A recent poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by 34 points among Hispanics. Political analysts are calling these gaps the Republican Party’s “Hispanic problem” and suggest that it may mean losing the support of Latinos beyond the 2012 election. In the last 10 presidential contests, the Democratic presidential nominee has received an average of Read More
Marco Rubio 2016. It may be too soon to roll out the pins and bumper stickers, but Senator Rubio (R-Fl.) appeared very presidential during his speech at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday. He was there to talk foreign policy. The message: America needs to be more active in spreading peace, security and prosperity throughout the Read More
Super Tuesday brought no upheaval with the expected voting patterns of the participating states. The candidates have largely fallen into their respective corners, hunkering down with the segments of the voting population that one would expect, given these GOP candidates and their stated goals and values. The distribution of the voters’ support could have been Read More
The Republican primaries have traveled through Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Their next stop is Florida. Whether you have been following the progression of these debates and nomination contests or not, the fact is that Florida is a lot different than the previous three states. Until now, the candidates have been competing against each Read More
Marco Rubio is not Cuban. He is not even an immigrant. Prove it. I want to see his Cuban birth certificate. I have a Cuban birth certificate so I can authenticate his. Mine reads Certificación De Nacimiento. His reads Certificate of Birth. There is a big difference. Rubio was born in Miami making him American Read More
This month, Representing La Gente will be profiling the junior senator from the great state of Florida: Marco Rubio. Rubio was born on May 28, 1971, to Cuban exiles Mario and Oria Rubio Garcia. Rubio is an alumnus of the University of Florida and obtained his Juris doctor from the University of Miami. He currently Read More
This past November, many pundits were saying that the GOP could be successful with Latinos because of the success it had in running Latino candidates. In Florida, Cuban-American Marco Rubio was elected, and his name has even been tossed around as a potential VP candidate in 2012. In two key western states, Latino Republicans were Read More