Snapshot: DNC and GOP are both clueless about Latino politics

*Two stories, a snapshot of  U.S. Latino politics: 70 percent of Latinos voted for the President Obama in 2012. Only 1.7 percent of the total $500 million spent by DNC on political consulting went to Latino firms. Yes DNC, that’s a knucklehead move. Meanwhile, the GOP cried victory when a Texas judge halted the President’s immigration executive action. Yes again, GOP, that was a HUGE mistake. VL

Op-ed: The Democrats’ Latino Problem

By Stephen A. Nuño, NBC News

The Democratic National Committee will be holding their 2015 Winter Meeting starting Thursday. Their schedule of events, open to the public, is a laundry list of meetings with key diversity caucuses that make up a critical component of the coalition that put President Obama in the White House in 2012. Despite this built-in diversity, Democrats need to address an important deficit in their coalition: a lack of Latino representation on their list of consultants.

A June 2014 analysis by PowerPAC+, reported by NBC News and others, found that only 1.7 percent of the $500 million spent by the DNC on political consulting went to businesses that are minority-owned or are run by a minority principal. It could be said that despite these numbers over 70 percent of Latinos voted for President Obama in 2012.

However, this is not the right way to be looking at 2016.

Click HERE to read the full story.

Why Republicans Might Want to Rethink Their Victory Lap on Immigration

By Serena Marshall, ABC News

A poll out Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute found that most Americans — 73 percent — support Congress moving forward to pass a comprehensive bill rather than working to undo some of President Obama’s executive actions, including the ability of nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants to obtain work permits and legal safety from deportation.

Looking to 2016, and those GOP candidates, it’s even more apparent why there’s a question about whether the federal judge’s ruling is a victory for Republicans.

Click HERE to read the full story.

[Photo by Joe Shlabotnik/Flickr]

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