John McCain and The White Man's Burden
Jesse Jackson may be mad at Obama for "talking down to black folks" -- but at least Obama never referred to blacks as "them" or demeaningly reminded his audience that blacks are "God's children too."
Jesse Jackson may be mad at Obama for "talking down to black folks" -- but at least Obama never referred to blacks as "them" or demeaningly reminded his audience that blacks are "God's children too."
FactCheck.org | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
A Spanish-language McCain radio ad gets nearly all its facts wrong. We contacted the McCain campaign repeatedly about the figures used in the ad but received no answer.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
John McCain's speechwriters must have done some homework on reaching out to Latino voters. In his speech before the League of United Latin American Ci...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
The immigration reform bill killing amendments, and Obama's vote on them, give McCain the hook he needs to lambaste Obama as an immigration reform spoiler.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
In a year of political milestones, prepare to add one more to the heap. Come this fall, Spanish-speaking Americans -- a community not always paid the ...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama and John McCain will both address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) on Saturday. From the NALEO ...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
Hundreds of thousands of new citizens will be casting their votes in November, and in the swinging Southwest, these disproportionately Latino and Democratic voters could cinch tight elections.
Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
A black president means anything is possible. It means that that last little parcel of earth -- which for 232 years has been solely inhabited by white men -- is now open to people of all colors.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
The terrorism issue is still a McCain election trump card, but it's not enough. He must duck the economic mess Bush made by spinning the standard GOP line that his plan is pro-growth.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
At this point a thinking person has to ask the question: why has there not been any correction by team Obama to the "Latino problem?"
Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
The presence of my brown skin parents in the white working class voter demographic indicates how vexing it must be for pundits trying to figure out this bloc of voters.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
The voter surge has also been enabled by a Latino wave that has been largely attributable to both Clinton's focus on this community and a backlash against Republican immigrant- bashing.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.
Geraldo Rivera | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Hillary has largely been sustained by her disproportionate Hispanic support; the percentage of a state's Hispanic population has been the strongest predictor of the election's eventual winner.
Richard Montoya | Posted 02.26.2008 | Entertainment
The heart of Cesar Chavez would surely be with Barack. Viva La Mujer! Viva Obama!
Scott Kurashige | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Communities of color need not view themselves as "minorities" in competition with each other but instead must recognize their increasing power and responsibility to reshape the majority culture.
Deanie Mills | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
If Obama wins the Texas Two-Step, it will be because he didn't just go out on the floor with the prom queen. It'll be because he reached out to those who felt like wallflowers, and invited them to the dance.
New York Post | Maggie Haberman | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
A prominent member of the national Democratic Party has circulated a sharp e-mail saying the removal of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign manager P...
Jeff Chang | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The reason Hillary won is because the Latino and Asian American votes remain emergent, not yet insurgent. Emergent voting blocs respond to leaders in their community.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Clinton's strength among Latinos has proved to be her margin of victory in the Super Tuesday popular vote, especially as the late California vote becomes evident.
James Trimarco | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home
Ivis Acevedo is a young woman working in a 99-cent store in a mostly Puerto Rican district of Brooklyn. As she talks about New York's upcoming primary...
NYCity News Service | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home
It took a little convincing for Kenda Nunez, Baltazar Cortez and Geraldine LaPenne to let their lattes cool a minute while they talked politics, but soon they got fired up and realized they had a lot to say.
Alison Owings | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
All in all, is Barack Obama any less of a feminist than Hillary Clinton?
Al Giordano | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
Obama simply cannot pay for advertising like Ted Kennedy on The El Piolín radio show, nor underestimate its impact on the vote next Tuesday.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics
One thing is clear, once we get to the general election, if Latino voters keep voting with this big a gap between candidates, the Republicans are done for.
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home