With both the U.S. House and the Senate leadership pledging to push the DREAM Act in the lame-duck session and perhaps as soon as this week, Latino leaders and community organizers say the people they sent to Washington two years ago have about two more weeks to prove they...
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Nov 23, 2010
Overwhelming support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State. Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands.
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Nov 22, 2010
Latino voters delivered in 2010. In 2010, Latinos kept the Senate in Democratic hands and were a key factor in Democratic gubernatorial wins in California, Colorado, and Illinois, as well as a number of House races. In fact, were it not for the "Latino firewall" in the...
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Nov 19, 2010
Latinos are fed up with congressional delays over comprehensive immigration reform. The time has come for President Obama and the Democrats to man up in the lame-duck session and at least fight to pass the Dream Act.
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As we reported yesterday, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Rep. Nydia Velasquez (D-NY) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) met with President Obama to talk about the chances of passing immigration reform or the DREAM Act during Congress's lame-duck session. Following the meeting last night on the Ed Schultz Show, Gutierrez...
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Tonight, at 10:00 pm EST, Lawrence O'Donnell will host an MSNBC Special Town Hall Event on "Immigration and Latino America" with the Executive Director of Voto Latino, Maria Teresa Kumar.
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A mounting array of evidence shows that the 2010 national exit poll failed to capture a representative sample of Latino voters and, resultantly, misstated levels of Latino support for candidates. However, research by Latino Decisions provides a more accurate picture of Latino voter sentiment in the 2010 elections....
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Pushing the divisive 'anchor babies' rhetoric is no road to immigration reform and will only make Latino voters more suspicious of GOP motives than they've already become.
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Nov 9, 2010
Politicians are always dismissive of pre-election polls that don't go their way, but Meg Whitman took that sour-grapes approach to a new level during the closing week of her campaign for governor.
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While it is interesting to figure out where Latino politicians did well, or did badly, what Latino voters did is probably one of the more enduring stories of the 2010 race. Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois, Governor-elect Jerry Brown, re-elected senators Harry Reid, Michael Bennett and Barbara Boxer all...
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