In an interview with Spanish news agency EFE yesterday, Otto Reich, a Mitt Romney campaign surrogate for Latin America, attributed Romney’s low level of support among Latino voters to his belief that Latino voters “are not well informed.” Reich further lamented that “We’re not communicating (with those voters) as we should”...
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Oct 22, 2012
Campaigns and political observers are in agreement that Latino voters will be one of the key factors in this year’s presidential race. As we have pointed out, Latino voters’ influence will hinge on both margin (head-to-head polling) and mobilization (eventual turnout). While margin has remained relatively unchanged in the presidential matchup, with President Obama...
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Cross-posted at Daily Kos. As the final days of the 2012 campaign draw near, America’s Voice is launching a six-figure radio and online ad buy to inform Arizona and San Diego Latino voters about the immigration positions taken by some of their local candidates Starting today, the ads will...
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President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Latinos are Republicans — they just don’t know it yet.” With respect to the Gipper, we’d like to tweak his adage a bit: “Some Latinos lean Republican — they just won’t vote for Republicans until the GOP moves away from its hardline immigration stance.”...
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Oct 18, 2012
The exchange on immigration during the second presidential debate has misled some observers into believing that Mitt Romney has softened his position on immigration. Unfortunately, that is not the case. His strategy the other night–as it has been the entire general election season when it comes to immigration–was to wrap his...
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Following the presidential debate last night, we put together a Twitter roundup of our favorite comments on the debate. Today, we’re putting together a blog roundup of responses commenting on who did better during the immigration segment of the debate, hitting Romney for his repeated use of the slur...
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Today, at a live streamed panel at the University of New Mexico’s main campus, national political analysts, advocates, and community leaders from New Mexico discussed how Latino voters and the immigration issue will shape the presidential and Senate races in this state and beyond. Gabriel Sanchez, Associate Professor at the University of...
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First of all, the public owes Lorraine Osario, the person who asked the immigration question at last night’s debate, many thanks. She asked the central question regarding our nation’s immigration policy: “what do you plan on doing with immigrants without their green cards that are currently living here as...
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At tonight’s second presidential debate, the topic of immigration was finally addressed. The substantial back and forth was originally raised by Obama, with a follow-up question from the audience. Today, America’s Voice released short immigration backgrounders on both candidates that put tonight’s immigration discussion into context. Here are links to President Obama’s and Mitt...
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While immigration has not yet been raised as a topic in this year’s general election debates, Mitt Romney and President Obama are taking the stage again tonight, and we hope that immigration reform is on the agenda. It’s an issue where the two candidates have very different view, and an...
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