Battleground Latinos A cutout of Barack Obama at a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Denver last month (Getty Images) New Mexico took center stage over the weekend on a 20-minute segment — New Voters in the New West — on NOW in PBS. Reporter Maria Hinojosa calls New Mexico “the battleground of battleground states” as [...]
Tag Archives: Latino vote
Latino Voters Increasingly Pessimistic About Life in the U.S.
September 27, 2008 – 10:29 am
The economic crisis and recent spate of immigration raids have dampened Latino voters’ morale, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study. Half of the 2,000 Latinos surveyed said that their situation was worse today than a year ago. Sixty-three percent of Latinos who had immigrated to the U.S. felt that way. In 2007, a [...]
Former Mayor Federico Pena Tries to Rally Denver’s Latino Voters
September 25, 2008 – 8:02 pm
News outlets across the country—including this one—have been focused on the western states lately, as Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada are shaping up to be hot battleground states this November. Latino voters are expected to support Obama, but historically their voter turnout has been poor. To make sure that doesn’t happen this time, Federico Pena, [...]
Battle for the West: NV Leans, NM Favors, CO T-Shirt Update
September 24, 2008 – 10:51 am
Nevada Feeling Blue? Sen. John McCain has held slim, within-the-margin-of-error edges in Nevada polls since the GOP convention. But Jon Ralston writes today in the Las Vegas Sun that “despite the history and some of the intangibles… [Nevada] is starting to lean to Obama, if ever so slightly.” Ignoring the (statistically meaningless) polls, the numbers [...]
McCain Strikes Back at Obama in New Spanish Ad
September 23, 2008 – 5:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fClpMEG2N2o In response to Barack Obama’s “Dos Caras” ad, John McCain is bringing up Obama’s promise to meet with Venezuelan demagogue Hugo Chavez, painting the Democrat as naïve and juxtaposing him with a fiery, expletive laden speech by Chavez. The ad is airing in Florida, home to many anti-communist Latin American exiles and the one [...]
Obama, McCain in Spanish Advertising Duel
September 23, 2008 – 5:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9LnAazwMg Barack Obama is airing this new ad, “Dos Caras” (“Two Faces”) in heavily Latino media markets in the Southeast U.\S. The ad’s ominous Spanish-language voiceover ties John McCain to Rush Limbaugh and George Bush, saying, They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance. They made us feel marginalized in [...]
McCain Attacks Obama in New Spanish Ad
September 22, 2008 – 6:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKGHvRL2_U Proving that the presidential candidates see Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico as key states and Latinos as a key demographic, John McCain has begun airing this ad in those markets. The ad blames Obama and Democrats in Congress for the failure of the comprehensive immigration reform that McCain championed. Obama and his allies in [...]
