What Must Happen for Texas to Turn Blue
What Must Happen for Texas to Turn Blue
By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer You hear the question often: Is Texas becoming a blue state? Since President Obama won reelection in November with an emerging Democratic coalition of African-Americans, Latinos, […]
Biden Invites NM Gov. Martinez to his Cinco de Mayo Party
By Dan Boyd, Albuqueurque Journal New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden appear to have struck up an unlikely friendship. After receiving an invitation from Biden, the […]
Immigration Bill Compromise is a Potential Political Sea Change
Victor Landa, NewsTaco It’s 844 pages long. It’s been a long time coming. And it’s a compromise. So it’s a daunting read, a sigh of relief and…better than nothing. I’m […]
Bipartisan Immigration Reform Bill Takes Shape in House
By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, Reuters A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives is close to completing work on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would include a […]
How the Demographic Shift Could Hurt Democrats, Too
By Ryan D. Enos, Washington Post …in 2008 I conducted an experiment in which I sent a letter to African American voters just before an election in Los Angeles. The content […]
Latino Voters Vastly Prefer Hillary Clinton Over Marco Rubio
By Dan Amira, New York Magazine According to a (caveat: very, very early) Quinnipiac poll, 60 percent of Hispanic voters would support Clinton in 2016, compared to a mere 24 percent […]
Joaquin Castro Says Obama ‘Needs to Be a Leader’ on the Budget
By Ron Fournier, National Journal Nothing angers President Obama and his allies more than suggesting that he bears even the minutest responsibility for resolving sequestration and the broader budget fights. He […]
Obama Operatives Move to “Battle ground Texas” to Make it a Swing-State
By Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News Former Obama campaign operatives are relocating in Texas as part of a group that plans to use the tools of Barack Obama’s reelection nationally to make Texas […]
Children Of Latino Immigrants Skew More Democratic Than Parents
By Gene Demby, NPR While most immigrants from Latin America identify with the Democratic Party, Hispanic members of the second generation — those born in the United States with at […]
Why Democrats Don’t Have to Worry About Ted Cruz?
By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco Not too long ago Ruben Navarette wrote a most revealing column entitled “Democrats should worry about up-and-comer Cruz.” The column goes on to extol Cruz’s […]
