The Philadelphia Inquirer runs a piece about the significance of the black and Latino vote in the New Jersey gubernatorial race:
Although it is believed that black and Latino voters in New Jersey generally back Democrats, Republicans hope to sway enough of them to slice away at Corzine’s dwindling lead in the nationally watched race between […]

Elena Rocha of the Center for American Progress tries to spur progressives to action in order to maximize the Latino vote. She writes that progressives are spending too much time strategizing, researching and messaging while Republicans are actually out there winning Hispanics “the same way that they won the majority of the voting population in […]

Even though the CSIA survey was completed almost 5 months ago, Time Magazine saw fit to reference one of the more salient findings in this week’s edition:
According to a recent survey by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, an industry advocacy group, 48% of Internet users avoid making purchases online because they are nervous their financial […]

The story “English Bypassed in L.A.” was brought to my attention this morning by L.A. Observed. It begins:
Peruvian immigrant Miguel Aliaga always knew that coming to Los Angeles would mean a long struggle mastering a new language. He just never figured that language would be Korean.
The piece admits that it has no hard numbers on […]

According to a story in today’s LA Times, it’s not just California that is looking into changing the way we redistrict every decade. But according to my congressman, Adam Schiff, the debate has special significance for the nation’s largest state.
The reason most often given for reforming redistricting is that with politicians drawing the lines, the […]

I think everyone who does political polling is surprised by the amount of misinformation in the media about what we do. And we also get asked the same questions at dinner parties over and over again, usually related to margin of error.
If everybody read “The Mystery Pollster,” a terrific blog by Democratic pollster Mark Blumenthal […]

Malcolm Maclachlan writes in the Capitol Weekly about Governor Schwarzenegger’s efforts to get back in the good graces of Latinos in California. One paragraph talks about the difference between Latinos in California and elsewhere:
But Latinos in California are very different than in other parts of the country. The vast majority of California Latinos hail from […]

As a Tsongas guy, I love the New Hampshire primary. We won there in ’92, after all. But as much as I appreciate the value of retail politics, it’s not like New Hampshire and Iowa are the only states small enough to encourage grass roots campaigning.
This past July, I testified to a DNC commission on […]

One of my clients is the Cyber Security Industry Association, a DC-area trade group made up of both software and hardware manufacturers whose businesses focus on making the Internet safe. The best known of the companies in the alliance are probably Symantec and McAfee, makers of anti-virus software among other products. With state legislatures around […]

This past weekend, the LA Times ran a story about the networks using more primetime Spanish to reach the burgeoning Latino population. (I was quoted in a similar story in the Financial Times.) While speaking Spanish may make perfect sense for the networks, it doesn’t mean that political consultants need to follow suit by doing […]