LatinaLista — News reports show President Obama speaking to rallies today in a raspy voice on the verge of laryngitis. Other news reports say former Gov. Romney is now using tele-prompters at his rallies to avoid making mistakes due to his nonstop campaigning. If we think we are tired of this continual campaigning, we can [...]
International election watchers, threatened with arrest by Texas and Iowa officials, say main focus is demographic turnout
LatinaLista — Recently, it was made known that the group of international election watchers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were warned off of observing Texas polls by the state’s attorney general threatening to arrest any of the watchers if they came within 100 feet of the polls. Now, shamefully, Iowa [...]
Hurricane’s aftermath underscores that human suffering, from nature or manmade, should not be made a political scapegoat
LatinaLista — Regular readers of Latina Lista know that I always write about politics and the impact of policies on the Latino community. I do that — not because I’m so compulsive obsessive that I feel I need to write about these issues but because I feel I have to. Ever since the election campaign [...]
The GOP’s own contradiction is what alienates Latinos from thinking its their party
LatinaLista — Politico posted a piece entitled Biden: We’re ‘breaking our neck’ on immigration reform. The piece isn’t all that interesting. It really just quotes Biden as reiterating why Latinos should vote for the Obama-Biden ticket — that an Obama-Biden win would send a clear message to the GOP that Democrats have Latino support and [...]
Early voting trends showing Latino voters won’t disappoint at the polls
LatinaLista — The warnings have been non-stop — Latinos won’t turn out to vote or Latinos won’t turn out in any greater number than 2008. Forget that voter registration rates are up among Latinos in four states that report by ethnicity, according to Pew Hispanic. There is not yet any nationwide data on Latino voter [...]
Texas wants to keep the world out when conducting its elections Nov. 6
LatinaLista — Just how divided has this election become? Well, it’s become so divisive that one “Red” state has decided to challenge the international community over it. Earlier this week, it was made known that more than 40 parliamentarians from Europe and Central Asia, representatives of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), [...]