Not all Latinos pray alike. Latinos are not all Catholics. And, as seen in the above graph, Democrats are losing non-Catholic Latinos.
In the Washington Post, Sonya Geis reports on the growing number of Latinos in the evangelical movement:
Thirty years ago, about 90 percent of Latinos in the United States were Catholic, sociologists estimate. Today that […]

It’s a sad fact that voter registration numbers demonstrate that the general public does not believe who gets elected matters much. Captains of industry, on the other hand, are well aware that who we elect does make a difference. As a result, money will always find its way into politics, campaign finance laws notwithstanding.
One example […]

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post blogs about Senator Bill Frist’s use of technology:
How effective any one of these online approaches will be in recruiting supporters (and donors) to Frist’s 2008 cause is an open question. There is a at least one crucial difference between Dean and Frist. Like him or hate him, the former […]

I’m often asked how Mayor Villaraigosa is navigating the immigration debate. This LA Times Q&A appeared in today’s - Saturday’s - edition. Here’s an excerpt:

Q: Since you got involved in a very visible and active way a few weeks ago, what has the reaction been?
A: The letters and e-mails have been overwhelmingly negative, maybe 500 […]

Annette Haddad of the LA Times reports that the median price of a Los Angeles County home has topped the $500,000 threshold - twice what it was just 4 years ago:
To buy a house at the median price, a household would need an annual income of at least $120,000 to qualify for conventional financing with […]

Congratulations to my client Rene Guerra for his win in yesterday’s runoff for Hidalgo County District Attorney. Congratulations, too, to James Aldrete and his team at MAP. When Guerra found himself in a precarious position after a surprisingly tough primary, he called Aldrete, who was fresh off running the table in Hidalgo. MAP showed Guerra […]

Molly Moore of the Washington Post describes the very different experiences of two French twentysomethings who grew up in the same Parisian suburb. If the youth protests in France are about the government unilaterally trying to change the social contract, this story helps describe what young people there are trying to hold on to:
Dhelft, a […]

On April 30, 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story entitled “Governor signals he’d welcome Minutemen on California border”:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger responded to harsh criticism about his support for armed volunteers who are patrolling the Arizona border with Mexico by praising the effort further Friday — and an aide said they are welcome to […]

Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee gives Governor Schwarzenegger credit for getting beyond politics and pushing vocational education:

“For too long, vocational ed has been looked down upon and considered second-class education,” Schwarzenegger said. “People who say that could not be more wrong.” There is, it should be noted, no political advantage for Schwarzenegger to be […]