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 […]

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 […]

Cynthia Gorney writes in the Sunday New York Times Magazine about Grupo Gallegos, one of many advertising agencies tapping into the dramatically expanding purchasing power of the Hispanic population in the United States:

“…then Gallegos is interested less in selling you products, since you are likely not Hispanic, than in pointing out the exploding spending power […]

Republican Latina Leslie Sanchez opines in the Wall Street Journal (safely enough) that Univision doesn’t do right by the GOP:

Faced with an onslaught of biased reporting, Republicans are right to have reservations about Univision. They should, however, engage the network, as it is far too important to be ignored. Late last month, Nielsen began comparing […]

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 […]

Josh Kraushaar reports in The Politico on very different poll results released by the campaigns of Jenny Oropeza (pollster: Greenberg Quinlan Rosner) and Laura Richardson (Fairbank Maslin Maullin):

Based on my experience in a recent assembly race, I bet each pollster has very different expectations of Latino turnout.
[Update (6/24/07):] The district’s local paper - The Daily […]

Much has been made in the national press of Governor Schwarzenegger’s “post-partisan” efforts to reach out to the Democrats who control the California Legislature and to the green lobby in DC, but less attention has been paid to the ire this is earning him with the very red Republicans who control the state party machinery. […]

The special election in California’s 37th congressional district is a race with enough Latino voters to suggest that the political professionals there would maximize their chances of delivering a win for Senator Jenny Oropeza or Assemblywoman Laura Richardson if they gave Latinos more than one banner point in their polling crosstabs. An article in Congressional […]