A key part of the Republican strategy to hold the governor’s office and the state house in Texas is to keep African-American and Hispanic turnout at manageable levels. For example, Republicans think that the fact that Barack Obama is not on the ballot in HD 133 will help them defeat Kristi Thibaut. But it’s not […]

I don’t know Congresswoman Solis very well but I am a big fan. Growing up just north of her district, I have watched its transformation from a collection of white working class bedroom communities to the sort of Latino and Asian melting pot distinctive to Southern California. With her focus on issues like immigration and […]

Five of my campaign clients had elections yesterday. Four won; one (Joe Alioto, San Francisco supervisorial candidate) is awaiting a final vote count.
Here are the winners:
LAUSD — It was interesting to see many press stories over the past couple months suggesting that Measure Q, a $7 billion school bond, was in trouble because voters would […]

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 […]