Sep 25, 2012
Today is National Voter Registration Day. While a broad coalition is working to get people registered to vote, a rash of state laws have been passed to inhibit that process. La Opinión editorializes about those new restrictive state voting laws — and gets to the crux of their purpose. The...
Continue
»
Earlier today we shared with you Stephen Colbert‘s segment on Republicans and the Latino vote. Turns out Ann Coulter was talking about the same topic this weekend during a roundtable discussion with host George Stephanopoulos, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich and former Obama domestic policy adviser Melody...
Continue
»
The Candidate Carefully Stacked the Audience at His Univisión Interview – But Won’t Be Able to Do that at the Polls in November The Romney campaign revealed a new Latino strategy at last week’s Univisión forum and it “worked”…for 35 minutes. A BuzzFeed interview with Univisión’s Maria Elena Salinas...
Continue
»
Mitt Romney had quite a time chasing the Hispanic vote last week, speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, going on Univision only to call DREAM Act youth “illegal aliens,” and suffering the release of a tape that–among other things–caught him speaking about how Hispanics voting Democrat would mean...
Continue
»
Cross-Posted at Latino Decisions and Latino Vote Matters. By Gary Segura, a Principal of Latino Decisions and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University: Week 5 of the ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions 2012 Tracking Poll reveals stabilizing numbers in the Presidential election, growing Latino support in the generic House ballot and—perhaps...
Continue
»
Imagine how different the presidential race would be if Mitt Romney had not embraced hardline policies on immigration during the Republican primaries. With interviews on Univisión and Telemundo and a speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week, Romney might have had a lot more of substance...
Continue
»
Imagine how different the presidential race would be if Mitt Romney had not embraced hardline policies on immigration during the Republican primaries. With interviews on Univisión and Telemundo and a speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week, had Romney adopted a more nuanced policy early on,...
Continue
»
