Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was on ABC’s “This Week” where he talked about the prospects for immigration reform in Congress this year. When host George Stephanopoulos asked if immigration reform will pass the Senate and pass the House, Reid said, “Well, it’s certainly going to pass the...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has established himself as a champion of immigration reform–and he reaffirmed his commitment to real reform this week while talking to reporters in his home state of Nevada: “There will be nothing done in my Senate (on immigration reform) without a pathway to citizenship,”...
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Oct 26, 2012
Yesterday, we explained “the Harry Reid Effect” – when pre-election polls underestimate the Latino vote in a way that underestimates the actual standing of the candidates they support. The Reid Effect is caused by (a) methodological problems in pre-election polls that create a skewed Latino voter sample, which can...
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When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) awoke on Election Day 2010, he was, in the words of Tom Kludt of Talking Points Memo, “a goner.” As Kludt explains: In the dying embers of the 2010 midterms, the Senate majority leader appeared to be on the ropes. Polls from...
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As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) awoke on Election Day 2010, he was, in the words of Tom Kludt of Talking Points Memo, “a goner.” As Kludt explains, “In the dying embers of the 2010 midterms, the Senate majority leader appeared to be on the ropes. Polls from...
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Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON – La promesa de reforma migratoria esta vez en una segunda administración Obama resurgió, por parte del propio presidente, pero esta vez de forma más pensada y lanzando además el reto a los republicanos que por los pasados años la...
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On Tuesday night, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will be the first Latino to give the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. He has been major Latino surrogate for Obama. And, Castro is from the same part of Texas as House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith. There couldn’t be a more...
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On the Senate floor yesterday, Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has been a champion for immigration reform and the DREAM Act, noted there is currently only one decisive Republican on immigration reform: Mitt Romney. Of course, as Reid pointed out, Romney is decisive in the wrong way. Reid also...
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From Political Wire, we learn the news that a Nevada Republican Senator, who is running for election this year, is sending different messages via his English and Spanish-language websites: Sen. Dean Heller’s (R-NV) campaign has set up a Spanish-language website which “is not as robust as the English-language version but does...
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Mitt Romney has apparently decided that he can’t compete for the Latino vote, so he’s going to focus his energies on depressing it. This strategy is already in force in states like Nevada and Colorado, the latter being where PBS News Hour interviewed a Latina voter who summed up the situation: “Obama promised...
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