LatinaLista — Every presidential campaign season heralds not just the usual grandstanding candidate debates, or the daily political campaign gossip passed off as news or the endless appearances by candidates delivering canned rhetoric on morning television and radio shows but it is also the start of the one true litmus test of public thought about [...]
Poll reveals New Mexico’s Latinos concerned about health of state’s environment
LatinaLista — As the summer of 2011 goes down in the record books as being the summer of the most extreme weather and natural events — months of consecutive days in the triple digits, unprecedented flooding in the northeast, severe drought in the southwest, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. – most people understand that the planet is [...]
GOP debate shows candidates either don’t have a clue on how to attract Latino voters or don’t care
LatinaLista — Two things were made painfully clear last night in the CNN/Tea Party Republican debate — the majority of the GOP candidates don’t have a clue as to who are Latino voters and some Tea Party members aren’t afraid to show the depth of their intolerance and ignorance when it comes to the immigration [...]
City Council’s black and Hispanic Caucuses gear up for remapping fight
By Elías Cepeda EXTRA News CHICAGO — Every 10 years the Chicago City Council has to adjust its 50-ward map to reflect whatever new population data is found through the U.S. Census. It’s not just municipal legislatures that are affected – state and U.S. rep districts are also modified. But wherever remapping and redistricting goes [...]
Only requirement for new presidential straw poll is to be a comic book fan
LatinaLista — Straw polls are like the heart monitors of political candidates. How a candidate fares in a straw poll usually is a good indication of how much life is left in the campaign according to a select group of voters. The latest group to participate in a straw poll may have some members who [...]
Missteps with Latinos cause Obama to lose Latino support as latest Gallup poll shows
LatinaLista – Today’s Gallup poll showing the decline in support among Latinos for President Obama wasn’t a big surprise. In fact, the poll illustrated that Obama’s popularity has sunk among both Latinos and whites (48 percent and 33 percent respectively). Blacks are continuing to hang in there and support Obama but even though those numbers are [...]
