Mitt thinks he’d have a better chance to become president if he was Latino. In the first video of the Actually… series Rosie Perez explains why it will take more than being Latino for Mitt to win the election.
[This is SO GOOD.]
Award-winning writer Paul Reyes explores how Alabamians really feel about their state’s draconian immigration law, which makes Arizona’s look tame…and which which was upheld by a judge today.
Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald says Republicans’ hard line stance on immigration will cost them Latino/Hispanic votes:
Despite the avalanche of bad news for President Barack Obama, he remains the most likely winner of the 2012 elections. That’s the conclusion I reached after watching the top Republican presidential hopefuls in recent weeks, as they started in earnest the race for their party’s nomination. They have taken such a hard line on issues that are dear to Latinos, that I don’t see how any of them can win the 40 percent of the Hispanic vote that pollsters say Republicans will need to win the White House. The last Republican president, George W. Bush, got 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, and the Latino vote has only become more important since. Former Republican candidate Sen. John McCain — who ran as a moderate on immigration — lost the 2008 campaign in part because he got only 31 percent of the Hispanic vote, pollsters say.
