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.
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Asian Americans make up the smallest racial group in the country, comprising about 5 percent (14.4 million) of the population. Yet they are the fastest growing sector, rising by 3 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With continuing immigration from Asia–especially China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Korea–and […]

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COLUMBUS - Barack Obama ventured into Hillary-land Friday as he proposed a social security fix to a roomful of Ohio senior citizens on his economic tour of Midwestern battleground states. Maybe it was because they were hand-culled by campaign volunteers, but the candidate’s foray into formerly-enemy territory seemed to be a hit with […]

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Editor’s Note: Columbia News21 Fellow Don Duncan just returned from a two-week journey to Afghanistan, where he followed an Afghan refugee returning there to visit for the first time since being resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. Also see his earlier dispatch.
 
 
Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan – Since the U.S.-led invasion by the coalition forces of Afghanistan in […]

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For a recent multimedia project called “I Am New York” for NYCInteractive.org, I profiled one immigrant politician, Harjinder Singh Duggal, who is one of the many Sikhs who supports Sen. Hillary Clinton in her now-failed run for the Democratic presidential nomination. And he is just not ready to throw his support for Obama. Yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWQyDQJj8E

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Senator Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to put America’s “unbreakable” bond with Israel at the heart of his foreign policy. He also said he would work to “eliminate” the threat posed by Iran to security in the Middle East and around the world, AFP reports. “There’s no greater threat to Israel or to the peace and […]

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At a 2006 campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina, then-GOP presidential contender Rep. Tom Tancredo joined the members of the League of the South or a chorus of “Dixie.” These members of the neo-confederate organization considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center had come decked out in full confederate regalia to hear […]

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Arguably the idea of “sounding presidential” originated with Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president who was first to have his inauguration broadcast on radio. During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt’s voice reassured the nation as he delivered his “fireside chats” to persuade the nation to get behind the New Deal.As the current crop of presidential […]

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While much media ado is being made about the boost among Latino voters that Barack Obama may have won following his endorsement last week from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the bigger payoff could come in the form of diplomatic cover that the onetime Clinton ally now provides for other superdelegates that might follow […]

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