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...Boston’s taste in film, which she says “tends to run outside of the mainstream,” has allowed many unique festivals to flourish in the area, including the Boston Jewish, Boston Latino, and the Boston Gay and Lesbian Festivals. And although loyalty seems to lie with the local film community, its members believe that a relationship with Hollywood can be mutually beneficial...
...Hyde Park, a leafy Chicago enclave surrounded by some of the city's bleakest communities. She said Obama may be the first President with a firsthand understanding of life in neighborhoods like hers. Gray said she wants the basics: cracked sidewalks repaved, enough funding so that largely black and Latino urban public schools can compete with the predominately white schools in affluent suburbs. "Just look around," she said on Election Day, pointing to a long row of blighted buildings along one of Gary's main boulevards, Broadway Street. "There's 101 things that need to be done." (See the next...
...judges.” Like McCarthy, Motley also criticized Obama’s muddled position on gay marriage. “Barack Obama opposes gay marriage and opposes Proposition 8, which probably confused some voters,” Motley stated, referring to the exit polls showing that black and Latino voters supported the Democrat but also voted for the proposition. While hopes for gay marriage were not totally dashed by the passage of Proposition 8, they were certainly dimmed. Gay-rights advocates have already filed three lawsuits challenging the proposition, saying that it is an illegal constitutional revision rather than...
Finally, there are unquestionably theological and racial reasons for the continued alignment of many white Evangelicals with the GOP. "There is a different flavor of Evangelicalism in the South," says political scientist John Green, an expert on religious polling. Obama's gains among Catholics were driven by Latino and white working-class Catholics for whom the economy trumped all other issues. But for lower-income Evangelicals in Southern states, that wasn't enough. Even in states that Obama carried, like Virginia and North Carolina, his percentage of the white Evangelical vote was much lower than in the Rust Belt...
...time highs for a Democratic presidential candidate. Perhaps just as important, Amandi foresees Obama getting 65% of the under-40 Cuban-American vote in Miami, underscoring the generational divide unfolding in that community. Hialeah, a once predominantly Cuban exile enclave adjoining Miami that today has a growing non-Cuban Latino population, seemed a microcosm of Amandi's findings today. Mireya Concepcion, 57, a Cuban-born cosmetologist who fled Castro's revolution in 1969, walked out of the polling station at the Salvation Army shelter in Hialeah late this afternoon and made it clear she'd voted for McCain. "I worry...