10/22/12 | New Ads Running Through Election Day to Highlight Immigration’s Role in AZ Senate and Arpaio Sheriff Race As the final days of the 2012 campaign draw near, America’s Voice is launching a five-figure radio and online ad buy to inform Arizona Latino voters about the immigration positions taken by their candidates. Starting today, the ads [...] | Read More »
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10/22/12 | New Ads Running Through Election Day to Highlight Immigration’s Role in Bilbray’s CA-52 House Race As the final days of the 2012 campaign draw near, America’s Voice is launching a five-figure radio and online ad buy to inform San Diego Latino voters about the immigration positions taken by their candidates. Starting today, the ad will [...] | Read More »
10/22/12 | New Ads Running Through Election Day to Highlight Immigration’s Role in AZ Senate, Arpaio Sheriff Race, & Bilbray’s CA-52 House Race As the final days of the 2012 campaign draw near, America’s Voice is launching a six-figure radio and online ad buy to inform Arizona and San Diego Latino voters about the immigration positions taken [...] | Read More »
10/19/12 | George W. Bush = 54% Latino Protestant Support in ’04: Mitt Romney = 33% Latino Protestant Support in New Pew Polling President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Latinos are Republicans — they just don’t know it yet.” With respect to the Gipper, we’d like to make a slight edit to his adage: “Some Latinos lean Republican [...] | Read More »
10/18/12 | With Immigration Sound Bites that Sound Softer to the Unitiated, Romney Tries to Put Rhetorical Lipstick on the Substantive Pig The immigration discussion at the second presidential debate has led some observers to conclude that Mitt Romney has softened his position on immigration. Unfortunately, that is not the case. His strategy the other night, as it [...] | Read More »
10/18/12 | Maribel Hastings is a senior adviser to America’s Voice: WASHINGTON—When immigration finally came up as a topic in a presidential debate, Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s response earned him the title of Cynic-in-Chief. He continued to attack President Barack Obama for failing to pass an immigration reform bill that neither he nor the Republican Party supports; [...] | Read More »
10/17/12 | New Poll from Latino Decisions Reveals that Immigration is a Top Issue and Latino Voters Overwhelmingly Support Modified Driver’s License Proposal Today, at a live streamed panel at the University of New Mexico’s main campus, national political analysts, advocates, and community leaders from New Mexico discussed how Latino voters and the immigration issue will shape [...] | Read More »
10/17/12 | Obama Says Most Get to Stay; Romney Says Most Have to Leave First, the public owes Lorraine Osario, the person who asked the immigration question at last night’s debate, many thanks. She asked the central question regarding our nation’s immigration policy: “what do you plan on doing with immigrants without their green cards that are [...] | Read More »
10/16/12 | At tonight’s second presidential debate, the topic of immigration was finally addressed. The substantial back and forth was originally raised by Obama, with a follow-up question from the audience. Today, America’s Voice released short immigration backgrounders on both candidates that put tonight’s immigration discussion into context. Here are links to President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s backgrounders. Additionally, below is a reaction [...] | Read More »
10/16/12 | When President Obama and Mitt Romney take the stage at Hofstra University for tonight’s second presidential debate, we hope that immigration reform is on the agenda. This issue has not been addressed yet in either the vice presidential or first presidential debate, but it is an extremely important issue for the millions of Latino and naturalized citizen voters who will be watching. | Read More »
10/15/12 | New Poll from Latino Decisions Reveals that Immigration is Important Issue to Virginia’s Latino Voters Today, at a live streamed panel held at George Mason University (which was co-sponsored by the GMU Department of Public and International Affairs and the Middle East Studies Program) national political analysts, advocates, and community leaders from Virginia discussed how [...] | Read More »
10/15/12 | With presidential and down-ballot campaigns in overdrive to appeal to Latino voters across the country, polling guru Nate Silver of the New York Times’s FiveThirtyEight political blog asks an important question – do many polls of Latino voters miss the mark due to problems in methodology? Beyond just an academic debate over polling, the answer to this question will go a long way to forecasting what will happen in a range of races and states across the country next month. | Read More »
10/12/12 | Howard Berman IS Original Author of DREAM Act, Champion of AgJOBS, and Indispensable Leader on Immigration Policy in Congress The contentious race between 14-term Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) and 8-term Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) in California’s 30th congressional district took a bizarre turn yesterday, as Rep. Sherman physically confronted Rep. Berman and questioned his leadership [...] | Read More »
10/11/12 | Romney Will Allow Work Permits for a Few, But Vows to End Obama’s DREAMer Relief Program For the Many Spurred by his first debate performance, some observers argue that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has started to “move to the middle” on a host of key issues, including immigration. For example, Karen Tumulty of the [...] | Read More »
10/11/12 | The Arizona Senate race between Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and former Surgeon General Richard Carmona (D) has emerged as one of the cycle’s surprise toss-up races. With analysts recognizing that the state’s rapidly growing Latino voter population could tilt the outcome, immigration has become one of the key flashpoints in the contest. At issue is [...] | Read More »
10/10/12 | New Poll from Latino Decisions Reveals that Immigration is Important Issue to Colorado’s Latino Voters Today, at a live streamed panel held in the Tivoli Student Union at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, political analysts, advocates, and community leaders from Colorado and across the country discussed how Latino voters and the immigration issue will [...] | Read More »
10/09/12 | New Poll from Latino Decisions Reveals that Immigration is Top of Mind for Arizona’s Latino Voters Washington, DC – Today, at a live-streamed panel at the Cronkite School, Arizona State University in downtown Phoenix, political analysts, advocates, and community leaders from Arizona and across the country discussed how Latino voters and immigration reform will shape [...] | Read More »
10/05/12 | As New Polling Shows Popularity of DREAMer Program, Senate Candidates Face Key Question This week, as a range of national and state polling demonstrates the popularity of pro-immigration reform positions like the DREAMer deferred action program, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made it clear that he would shut down the DREAMer protection program as soon [...] | Read More »
