John McCain Not Doing as Well With Hispanic Voters, Abortion Views Will Help
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- New polling data shows John McCain is not faring as well with Hispanic voters as President Bush did in each of the last two elections. While Bush solidified his support with Hispanics with his evangelical outreach and focus on Hispanic concerns, McCain is trailing with the important voting group.
A new Pew Hispanic Center poll released on Thursday shows McCain getting the support of just 23 percent of Latinos.
That's less than half of the 56 percent President Bush received in 2004 and much smaller than the 44 percent Bush got in 2000.
The Pew poll shows just one-third of Protestant or evangelical Hispanics plan to vote for McCain while 59 percent are behind pro-abortion rival Barack Obama. McCain also trails Obama by 50 percentage points among Catholic Hispanics.
Cortes, who leads the Christian group Nueva Esperanza tells Politico the reason McCain is doing worse is because the Republican Party has alienated Hispanics over the immigration issue.
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A new Pew Hispanic Center poll released on Thursday shows McCain getting the support of just 23 percent of Latinos.
That's less than half of the 56 percent President Bush received in 2004 and much smaller than the 44 percent Bush got in 2000.
The Pew poll shows just one-third of Protestant or evangelical Hispanics plan to vote for McCain while 59 percent are behind pro-abortion rival Barack Obama. McCain also trails Obama by 50 percentage points among Catholic Hispanics.
Cortes, who leads the Christian group Nueva Esperanza tells Politico the reason McCain is doing worse is because the Republican Party has alienated Hispanics over the immigration issue.
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Latino groups unite to launch $5-million voter registration drive
Citing increased interest in national politics and the important issues facing immigrants and Latinos, nine organizations announce a nonpartisan effort to register up to 2 million new voters.
Buoyed by a surge of political interest among immigrants and youth, nine national Latino organizations Friday announced a joint effort to register as many as 2 million new voters as presidential candidates from both parties vie for their community's increasingly influential support. The $5-million nonpartisan voter registration effort, announced at a national Latino forum in downtown Los Angeles, comes amid an unprecedented campaign by community organizations and Spanish-language media to boost Latino civic participation -- and two new reports showing signs of success.The U.S. government last week reported that the number of Mexican immigrants who became citizens last year swelled by 50%, with hundreds of thousands more in line to process their naturalization applications
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Buoyed by a surge of political interest among immigrants and youth, nine national Latino organizations Friday announced a joint effort to register as many as 2 million new voters as presidential candidates from both parties vie for their community's increasingly influential support. The $5-million nonpartisan voter registration effort, announced at a national Latino forum in downtown Los Angeles, comes amid an unprecedented campaign by community organizations and Spanish-language media to boost Latino civic participation -- and two new reports showing signs of success.The U.S. government last week reported that the number of Mexican immigrants who became citizens last year swelled by 50%, with hundreds of thousands more in line to process their naturalization applications
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Latino groups are seeking to mobilize, register voters
LOS ANGELES — For years now, the metaphor that political strategists and commentators fall back on to describe the millions of Latino voters in the United States has been "the sleeping giant."
On Friday at the National Latino Congreso conference in downtown Los Angeles, no one uttered that phrase, except in attempts to debunk it.
"This is our moment," Angel Luevano, regional vice president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said at the outset of the three-day conference. "We are no longer a sleeping giant."
That's the hope, anyway, among the hundreds of conference delegates.
Most represent Latino political and civic groups such as LULAC, the Mexican American Political Association and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.
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On Friday at the National Latino Congreso conference in downtown Los Angeles, no one uttered that phrase, except in attempts to debunk it.
"This is our moment," Angel Luevano, regional vice president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said at the outset of the three-day conference. "We are no longer a sleeping giant."
That's the hope, anyway, among the hundreds of conference delegates.
Most represent Latino political and civic groups such as LULAC, the Mexican American Political Association and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.
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Latino Point Man
Villaraigosa now in Obama's corner
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a former co-chairman of the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign, energetically stumped for the New York senator until she was shown the door.Now, as one of the nation's most prominent Latino politicians, he has become the go-to guy for Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee, on Latino issues.Villaraigosa is scheduled to introduce Obama when he speaks to Latino community and political leaders this afternoon in Washington, D.C. Obama invited the mayor to introduce him at the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, better known as LULAC, where he will be a featured speaker.It's the second time this week that the Obama campaign has called on Villaraigosa to help in its aggressive outreach to Latino voters who favored Clinton in the primaries.When McCain went on the air with a Spanish-language radio ad that criticizes Obama for just discovering the importance of Latino voters, Villaraigosa fired back, praising Obama as a champion of Latinos.
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a former co-chairman of the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign, energetically stumped for the New York senator until she was shown the door.Now, as one of the nation's most prominent Latino politicians, he has become the go-to guy for Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee, on Latino issues.Villaraigosa is scheduled to introduce Obama when he speaks to Latino community and political leaders this afternoon in Washington, D.C. Obama invited the mayor to introduce him at the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, better known as LULAC, where he will be a featured speaker.It's the second time this week that the Obama campaign has called on Villaraigosa to help in its aggressive outreach to Latino voters who favored Clinton in the primaries.When McCain went on the air with a Spanish-language radio ad that criticizes Obama for just discovering the importance of Latino voters, Villaraigosa fired back, praising Obama as a champion of Latinos.
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Latino stars come out for Obama
MIAMI, June 29 (UPI) -- A handful of Latino musicians, actors and celebrities are urging their fans to support Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Latino celebrities are becoming involved in the 2008 White House race to an unprecedented degree this year, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
The Pew Hispanic Center reports 18.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote.
The celebrities are able to reach easily the 7.3 million Hispanics under 35, the newspaper said.
Latino superstars such as Juanes, the Colombian rocker, and Los Tigres del Norte from Mexico are urging fans at their concerts to register to vote, while Dominican merengue legend Juan Luis Guerra and Mexican rockers Mana played a benefit concert in Miami in March to benefit a national campaign to increase citizenship and voter registration among Hispanics.
There has been no reported groundswell of support among Latino stars for Republican nominee John McCain.
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Latino celebrities are becoming involved in the 2008 White House race to an unprecedented degree this year, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
The Pew Hispanic Center reports 18.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote.
The celebrities are able to reach easily the 7.3 million Hispanics under 35, the newspaper said.
Latino superstars such as Juanes, the Colombian rocker, and Los Tigres del Norte from Mexico are urging fans at their concerts to register to vote, while Dominican merengue legend Juan Luis Guerra and Mexican rockers Mana played a benefit concert in Miami in March to benefit a national campaign to increase citizenship and voter registration among Hispanics.
There has been no reported groundswell of support among Latino stars for Republican nominee John McCain.
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Orlando area is fertile ground for Hispanic-owned businesses
Central Florida has some of the top Hispanic-owned companies in the nation, according to the latest national ranking by California-based Hispanic Business magazine.Florida also has the most top-ranked Hispanic businesses in the nation, with 124 companies generating $12.8 billion in revenue last year.The findings are part of the magazine's directory of the "500 Largest U.S. Hispanic-owned Companies," a yearly listing of top performers published this month.Eleven Central Florida companies made the list, despite a difficult economic climate that led to a 0.6 percent decline in revenues from the previous year among the top companies.
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The National Latino AIDS Action Agenda Network (NLAAN) Releases Federal Policy Recommendations - Addressing the Latino AIDS Crisis
NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Latino Commission on AIDS and its community partners join eight cities acrossthe United States (Los Angeles, New York,Washington, DC,Philadelphia,Puerto Rico,Miami,San Antonio and Chicago) in releasing Latino/Hispanic HIV/AIDS Federal Policy recommendations - addressing the Latino AIDS Crisis to address the HIV/AIDS emergency in Latino/Hispanic communities across the nation, includingPuerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With 120 organizations represented by over 350 individuals already signed on in support of the document, the release comes in response to the health emergency caused by the accelerated growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Hispanic/Latino communities across the nation.
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