Latino voters heard nothing new in last night’s presidential debate

Latino voters heard nothing new in last night’s presidential debate

NewsTaco September 27, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (2.5 minute read) This is the picture everybody will be talking about today. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump side-by-side in the first presidential debate of 2016. […]

Latino Millennial footprint of the 2016 elections

NewsTaco September 21, 2016

*More elusive than the Millennial vote is the Latino millennial vote. Forty-two percent are expected to go to the polls in November and no one can say for certain why. […]

Latino voters in swing states could hurt GOP

NewsTaco September 12, 2016

*In Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio Latino voters favor the Democratic candidate for Senate. VL By David F. Damore, Latino Decisions (8.5 minute read) New polling from America’s […]

NCLR Latino Voter Registration Money Fell from $7 Million to $1.5 Million

NewsTaco September 9, 2016

*The-importance-of-the-Latino-vote trope has been louder this year than in years past. But looking at the numbers above you begin to see how it’s been baseless wind. VL By Suzanne Gamboa, […]

Latinos have a date with the ballot box

NewsTaco September 8, 2016

*There’s a part of this column that brings to light something that is seldom considered in Latino political reporting: Latino voter registration non-profits are just now getting the funds they […]

Trying to Make Sense of American’s (and Latino’s) Voting Behavior

NewsTaco July 13, 2015

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco The other day I was sitting in my neighborhood Mexican restaurant consuming my Huevos a la Mexicana plate breakfast and I heard three young folks […]

Right-wing xenophobes, cowardly Dems and the misunderstood Latino vote

NewsTaco October 1, 2014

*There’s political theater, political posturing, veiled threats, and then there’s political reality. Here’s a take on what’s really going on with Latinos and the mid-term election votes. VL By Gabriel […]

Why Latinos Should Care About Voting

NewsTaco April 24, 2014

*There is no silver Latino vote bullet. If the Latino vote is to increase (or even think of reaching its potential) a concerted effort of many people, in many groups, […]

Latino groups to launch massive voter registration

Mary Mata January 23, 2014

By Laura Wides-Muñoz, Associated Press/Seattle Post Intelligencer MIAMI (AP) — Two national Latino organizations are kicking off a massive voter registration campaign ahead of the 2014 elections. National Council of La […]

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Now a bipartisan gang wants to put it back together.

Mary Mata January 17, 2014

By Dylan Matthews, The Washington Post It’s rare that you can get Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) to agree on much of anything. The former, after all, introduced […]