Word: hispanicism
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“I think [District Attorney Martha] Coakley will run for Senate and I think she needs the Hispanic vote, and I feel like this was politically motivated,” she said. “I thought we needed to do something.”
It makes all the political sense in the world: take your wedge issues--abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research--and aim them at a population whose membership in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches exceeds 90%. That's the strategy deployed this season by Focus on...
That's a lot of attention for a constituency long believed to be a Democratic bedrock. But in 2000, Bush captured 35% of the Hispanic vote, more than any other Republican presidential candidate, and his campaign has made it a goal to bring in 40% this time. It may be...
Other trends make it even more urgent that both sides crowd the airwaves of networks like Telemundo and Univision. The Hispanic population has grown 21% in the past four years, to 39.8 million, and a bigger percentage than ever are recent immigrants who speak primarily Spanish and are open to...
In his quest to be the first Cuban-American Senator, former HUD Secretary Mel Martinez, 57, says he is the "testament of the American Dream." He's also part of the President's dream; the White House picked Martinez to help Bush win Hispanic votes. The vitriol Martinez aimed at...