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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Cross-Posted at Daily Kos, Latino Decisions, and Latino Vote Matters: The impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll latest results reveal a high level of interest and engagement by Latino voters in the upcoming congressional and presidential elections. More than three-fourths of all respondents said they...
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Maricopa County, Arizona residents are used to seeing tent cities, chain gangs of prisoners, and pink underwear. This fall, as Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a much closer reelection for Sheriff than usual against Paul Penzone, residents are also seeing impassioned protests in unusual forms, involving chickens and monarchs. Yesterday,...
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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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UPDATED: Univision just published a fact-check on this ad. Here’s an excerpt: “And to achieve permanent solutions for undocumented youth.” During the primaries, Romney said he would veto the current version of the DREAM Act, which would have given undocumented youth a special path to citizenship for those that...
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Today’s New York Times has a front page article titled, “Campaigns See Latino Voters as Deciders in 3 Key States,” discussing the Latino vote in Colorado, Florida and Nevada. From the headline, one might get the impression that the battle for the Latino vote in those three states is actually...
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Educating Maryland Kids is running the campaign to defend the state’s DREAM Act — and urging Marylanders to Vote FOR Question 4 on November 6th. With 19 days til the election, supporters of Question 4 got some good news today from a new Washington Post poll showing strong support: Maryland...
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Congratulations to Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) for receiving La Opinion’s endorsement in his upcoming Democrat-on-Democrat race against Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA). Reps. Berman and Sherman have been thrown together in California’s newly redistricted CD 30, and the race for the Congressional seat that only one of them can win...
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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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