Dec 5, 2012
A panel featuring pollster Ruy Teixeira and Obama for America organizer Jeremy Bird at the Center for American Progress today underscored the impact of the minority vote in last month’s election, and highlighted just how instrumental record numbers of minority voters were to President Obama’s reelection effort. As Ruy...
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Since the election last month, when Mitt Romney lost the Latino vote to President Obama by more than a 3-1 margin, Republicans who acknowledge that the party must do better with immigration and Latino voters have mainly fallen into two camps. There is the camp of the token proposal,...
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First, a California Republican group refused to support Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-CA)’s exploratory bid to become governor. Now, Kansas lawmakers have voted against elevating state Rep. Virgil “Let’s Shoot Immigrants from Helicopters” Peck to the position of assistant majority leader. Republicans nationwide and at the state level are realizing...
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Campaign Manager “Regrets” Hard Right Stance on Undocumented Immigrants; Will Republicans in Congress Heed the Lesson? Matt Rhoades, Mitt Romney’s campaign manager, has added his voice to the ranks of other Republicans lamenting choices the Party made on immigration. At a forum hosted by the Harvard University Institute of...
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In the burgeoning legislative debate over immigration reform, leaders of the DREAMer movement of young aspiring Americans drew an important line in the sand this weekend. At a conference convened by United We Dream, one of the leading organizations created of, by, and for DREAMers, the organization’s members made...
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If the Republicans are going to offer real immigration reform, they must do better than Lamar Smith’s STEM bill, which would sacrifice the diversity lottery for more high-tech visas
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