Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

News21 reporter Elizabeth Mendez Berry and I have been talking to Cubans in Miami over the past week, as we report our story on challenges to their political power from other Latinos, and from within their own community. And we have noticed many events and people recurring as points of reference for this community.
For the […]

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Minority voting has been a major theme in this election cycle. African Americans are voting as a bloc for Senator Obama. Latino Americans were voting mostly for Senator Clinton. Little has been reported, however, about the so-called “quiet minority:” Asian Americans, who also voted in large percentages for Clinton in the primaries. On Super Tuesday […]

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Speaking as the surrogate for her mother’s campaign, Chelsea Clinton was the star of the first general session at the Texas Democratic Convention this weekend. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine — sometimes mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice for Barack Obama — spoke later in the evening as the Obama surrogate. Judging from audience reaction, […]

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‘Hope’ and ‘change’ took a backseat to a different campaign theme this weekend at the Texas Democratic Party’s state convention in Austin: ‘unity.’ Party heads were pushing for unity between Hillary Clinton supporters and Barack Obama boosters every chance they had, hoping to buffer any fallout from Clinton’s anticipated suspension of her presidential campaign on […]

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One day after Hillary Clinton announced the suspension of her campaign, supporters of Barack Obama in Los Angeles celebrated the clinching of his nomination by marching in the 38th L.A. Pride Parade, part of an annual three-day celebration of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.
Pam Cooke, the local coordinator of L.A. Pride events for […]

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Felipe Ramirez, a Mexican immigrant living in Queens, cannot vote. Yet he has decided to volunteer his time with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, distributing fliers and speaking to the parents of Hispanic children at area schools. Watch the video to hear him talk about his experiences.

http://www.vimeo.com/960761

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From France to Turkey to India, people around the world are gripped by the excitement of the U.S. primaries, writes Simon Robinson in Time magazine.
Foreign media coverage of the primary process so far has been unprecedented.
Some think it’s way too much — back in January, for instance, the BBC’s reporting drew scores of complaints […]

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Jason Witmer and Brian Aguilar crash the SF Bay Guardian’s Super Tuesday party at the Kilowatt, a biker bar in San Francisco’s Mission District. Hear who people want as their next president and what issues matter most to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMi6F60FHQ

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Jason Witmer and Brian Aguilar venture onto San Francisco’s Municipal Railway system, aiming to find out who people want as their next president and what issues matter most to them. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDP1VUyMKDI

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