Los Angeles Times: Obama putting key priorities on hold until after midterm election By Christi Parsons and Kathleen Hennessey October 17, 2014 Associated Press: Colorado candidate’s town shapes immigration view By Nicholas Riccardi October 18, 2014 Washington Examiner: Despite opposing Obama’s immigration reform, Cory Gardner leading among Colorado Hispanics...
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Latino Decisions’ David Damore Explains Why Polls in Colorado Have Consistently Underrepresented the Rising Latino Electorate and What it Could Mean for November As the final weeks of the 2014 midterm election season get underway, Dr. David Damore, Senior Analyst at Latino Decisions, takes to the pages of the...
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From the Denver Post’s last few endorsements, you would never have thought that they used to support immigration reform. They did — in an editorial published a few days before the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill last summer, the Post wrote, “the Senate bill is still the sort of comprehensive...
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Check out this piece from Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg View today. We’ve seen a lot of GOP ugliness in recent days, fear-mongering about the border, ISIS, and ebola. But the 2014 election will be over in two weeks, and the 2016 elections will become a hot topic right after. The...
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Both the New York Times and Politico today have great pieces on Kris Kobach, America’s least favorite Secretary of State, and his unexpectedly tight reelection campaign this November. A wide swath of Kansas voters are fed up with his extremism, his voter ID crusade, and his apparent preference for furthering anti-immigrant state laws...
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1:30 PM ET: Breaking news! Grimes campaign tells immigration-reform advocates she will pull offending ad and not use ‘the i word’ – http://t.co/JwZr846FPL #kysen #CIR — Joe Sonka (@joesonka) October 17, 2014 It’s been a bad week for Kentucky’s Alison Lundergan Grimes after the release of her “illegal aliens” ad,...
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Bloomberg View (Opinion): Republicans Pave Way to All-White Future USA Today: Study: Hispanics to have little impact in big Senate, gov races NBC News: Why Immigration Talk in Senate Races Took a Hard Right Wall Street Journal: Study: Hispanic Voters Not Big Factor in Most Senate Races The Hill:...
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Los votantes hispanos son el bloque electoral más codiciado en Colorado, donde ayudarán a definir por escaso margen la reñida contienda por el Senado. A tres semanas de los comicios, unos 141,164 latinos aún no se han inscrito para votar.
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NumbersUSA pagará para que el anuncio de 30 segundos se transmita en 10 estados donde la elección para el Senado es muy competida. Los mensajes no son explícitamente políticos, pero dicen que los inmigrantes son quienes encuentran trabajo, mientras los residentes de larga data batallan para conseguir un empleo.
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Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), now running for Senate in a state where the electorate is 13% Latino, has been saying a lot of nice things about immigration reform. Immigration reform has consistently been a top priority for Colorado’s Latino voters, and so Gardner has been going around claiming that...
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