Last week, with the release of the new census numbers, DC's political pundits took notice of the growing Latino population and realized that because of immigration, the Republican Party has a major problem on its hands.
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Probably the biggest political news story from the release of new census data was the growth of the Latino community -- and the corresponding political power of the Latino vote. As you'll see below, reporters and pundits around the country focuses on the political implications of these changing demographics.
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New data from the U.S. Census Bureau highlights the dramatic increase of the Latino population over the past decade, in both traditional "gateway" states and throughout the nation, with Latinos now comprising more than 1 in 6 Americans. According to Associated Press analysis of the new data, minority...
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If you Google the terms "Jeff Flake" and "immigration," you'll see numerous articles about a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. But, once it became clear that Flake was running for Senate in Arizona's GOP primary, that began to change.
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The claim by Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA), the chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee, that he is focused on "illegal" immigration was disabused at his latest hearing. Instead, the Chairman pitted native-born workers against foreign-born workers (plenty of whom are citizens). We also learned something about the GOP's...
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New Census data on the growth of the Hispanic population continues to underscore the importance of this group in our national fabric -- and to the electoral map.
Take Arizona for example: the Hispanic population grew 46% in the last decade and we now constitute 30% of the population of...
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Some days, these stories just write themselves. Kansas legislator Virgil Peck, R-Tyro, suggested yesterday during a House Appropriations Committee meeting that illegal immigrants should be hunted down and shot.
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Last spring, we saw lots of stories about support for an Arizona-type law. Pollsters would ask if voters supported the Arizona law and the results became the story, without highlighting the other side of the equation: that there is strong support for immigration reform. However, with Rasmussen, it's...
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House Republicans really let their nativist flag fly yesterday with simultaneous hearings on "New Jobs in Recession and Recovery: Who Are Getting Them and Who Are Not" (or rather: "Why Immigrants are Supposedly Recovering from the Recession Faster than Natives and What We Can Do to Make Sure...
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Proving that truism, the slowly emerging class of Republican presidential candidates increasingly looks like a bunch of bystanders. More-dynamic party forces are shaping both the GOP's public image and its internal debate in ways certain to reverberate through next year's nomination battle and the general election.
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