I get asked all the time who I like, Hillary or Obama. I always answer Richardson. So whether Obama pulls Texas out of his hat today doesn’t matter much to me. But I’m happy to highlight Joe Cutbirth’s examination of Obama’s Texas strategy in today’s Huffington Post because of the light it shines on my […]

Former Clinton administration official Kurt Campbell guest blogs on the New York Times about the difference in approach between George W. Bush and both of his predecessors:
Indeed, the 1990’s involved enormous and important good works internationally and helped set the scene for continued American power on the global stage. Increasingly, the first Bush Administration and […]

The Pew Hispanic Center has shown that naturalized Latinos are more likely to register and to vote than U.S.-born Latinos. Julia Preston of the New York Times reports that recent data suggests that there will be more newly naturalized Latino voters than ever before:
Immigration authorities are swamped in new bureaucratic backlogs resulting from an unanticipated […]

Michael Blood of the Associated Press reports on Republican hopes for Latino voters in 2008 even despite the Republican Party’s spectacular mishandling of the immigration issue. I’m quoted in the article:
Democratic pollster Andre Pineda, who is advising New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign, conducted research after the November 2006 elections that identified a generational […]

Guillermo Martínez opines in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the impact of the Cuban vote in the 2008 election. In the process, he makes the point that the Hispanic vote in Florida is far from monolithic:
Cuban Americans are no longer a majority of the Hispanic vote in the state of Florida. Of the estimated one […]

Kos blogged today on Rick Noriega:
The Texas netroots is launching their effort on behalf of Rick Noriega — an ambitious effort that will be easily the most difficult challenge tackled by the netroots to date. They’re launching with an effort to garner 800 contributors to their ActBlue page for Noriega. I’m in.
As things currently stand, […]

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post describes the rise of the Richardson campaign the same way I do whenever asked by friends: “slowly but surely.” Cillizza also assesses the political implications of the Governor’s position on Iraq:
Expect Richardson to attempt to gain more traction in the coming weeks with his plan to remove all American […]

Matt Bai of the New York Times opines on the lack of governing experience held by the candidates currently ahead in the polls:
Of all the campaign themes that will emerge leading up to the 2008 primaries, one you probably won’t hear a lot about is experience. That’s because the candidates who are at the moment […]