While economic issues are of paramount importance to Latino voters, just like all Americans, the issue of immigration remains a defining, threshold issue for this fast-growing group of voters. The hardline immigration stances abounding in the Republican primary season are putting Latino voters further out of reach for...
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Ambas campañas prometieron una lucha cuerpo a cuerpo y sin perder tiempo, los precandidatos a la nominación presidencial republicana, Newt Gingrich y Mitt Romney, se lanzaron dardos en su búsqueda del voto latino o más bien cubanoamericano de cara a las primarias republicanas del 31 de enero en Florida.
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Given that Florida is over 22.5% Hispanic, it is not surprising that in anticipation of the Florida Primary next week the GOP primary frontrunners, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney took time to participate in a forum put together by the largest Spanish television network Univision and the U.S. Hispanic...
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For a moment Wednesday afternoon in Miami, Mitt Romney seemed to have a solution to his Hispanic problem: Was he not, Univision's Jorge Ramos asked, Mexican-American himself, as his father had been born south of the border?
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The leading Republican candidates spent Wednesday appealing for the votes of South Florida's Hispanic voters, with the campaigns of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich skirmishing over an advertisement that branded Mr. Romney as anti-immigration.
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CNN en Espanol is joining the list of Spanish-language networks to co-host debates and forums with the GOP presidential candidates. On Thursday, CNN en Espanol's top anchor Juan Carlos Lopez will moderate questions from a panel in Miami during the CNN debate in Jacksonville.
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Hoping to exploit former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's potential weaknesses with Latino voters, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and a major Democratic super PAC are attacking the Republican presidential candidate in a Spanish-language radio ad entitled "Las Dos Caras de Mitt Romney," or "The Two Faces of Mitt...
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The Republican primary season is heading to Florida, then out west for primaries in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, all states with Hispanic heavy populations. These primaries are worthy of attention as they present a clear test of the GOP's strategy of pandering to the anti-immigrant wing of their base.
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Univision, in collaboration with Miami Dade College, will host a "Meet the Candidates" event with the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls. Watch Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum speaking with Univision journalist Jorge Ramos on a range of issues – one of which is sure to be immigration.
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Jan 24, 2012
As I watched the Republican debates last night, I was taken by surprise when Mitt "I will veto the DREAM Act" Romney all of a sudden decided to sing to a "different" (perhaps more alarming) tune on the whole issue
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