Intellectually Entertaining. Socially Relevant.
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
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
Voter fraud is such a rare occurrence that even a conservative news outlet is reporting on its virtual nonexistence. From Fox News Latino: “State officials in key presidential battleground states, many of them Republican, have found only a tiny fraction of the illegal voters they initially suspected existed. Searches in Colorado and Florida have yielded 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
These days Latino momentum seems to be on the side of Pres. Obama. You can even see anger raging from Hispanics against the right verbally personified when comedian George Lopez went off on a curse-filled rant against Sheriff Joe Arpaio in his recent HBO special. Si, we are winning, at least in the polls; but Read More