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June 26, 2008

Snippet: roughly one in seven Catholic registered voters report being of Hispanic ethnicity, and they prefer Obama by a 66% to 25% margin – Gallup

June 19, 2008

Snippet: The good news is, Obama’s standing in the Latino community is quite strong. The better news is, Obama is even stronger than expected. The remarkable news is, Obama is even ahead in Florida, where Cuban-American voters have consistently voted Republican for the last four decades.

Snippet: A Georgia study also found that Hispanics are twice as likely as whites not to have a government-issued photo ID. Hispanic citizens born outside of the United States often face significant barriers to obtaining ID consistent with the challenges facing foreign-born citizens generally. And of course, there are the 12 million undocumented immigrants who live among us. While some states in the past had granted licenses to anyone who provided proof of residency, that is already changing as the REAL ID regulations take effect.

Snippet: Comic book writer, Jai Nitz from Lawrence, Kansas, wrote the first Spanish-only project released by DC Comics. It’s the June edition of ‘The Blue Beetle’

Snippet: On the Republican side, a Hispanic New Hampshire Democrat, Roberto Fuentes, told Politico that he was recently asked, and declined, to contribute to the “diversity” of the crowd behind Sen. John McCain at a Nashua event.

June 18, 2008

Snippet: In another striking finding, the report said that 99 percent of people referred to federal prosecutors for immigration offenses in March were charged. “Any immigration case that comes through the door is going to be prosecuted,” Mr. Burnham said. “That’s astonishing.”

Snippet: The news about Latino Catholics is not good for the GOP. Only 15 percent call themselves Republican, compared to 57 percent for the Democrats. The number of independents among these voters is growing (28 percent).

June 17, 2008

Snippet: “Pre-Hispanic Cooking/Cocina Prehispanica,” by Ana M. de Benitez (Bibliotech Interamericana Bilingue, $35.95). This tiny paperback, half in English, half in Spanish, is packed with intriguing nuggets of information drawn from Mexico’s traditions, the writings of Spanish missionary Fray Bernardino de Sahagun and Benitez’s years as a cooking teacher.

June 12, 2008

Snippet – What happened to Forbes plans of launching a Spanish-language edition? – 18 months after the announcement the new product has not yet been published.

Snippet – Key players brought in by Omar Minaya have been expensive busts: Pedro Martinez, Carlos Delgado and Moises Alou–give me a break. Minaya spent too much time trying to build the Mets’ Latino fan base, rather than a team that can win.

Snippet – Chicano and Latino students account for 25 percent of the 2008 entering freshman class with 1,181 students, compared with 1,026 students last year. – UC Santa Barbara

Snippet – The 2006 data also provide more evidence for what demographers term the “Hispanic Paradox”: As a group, Hispanics have much lower mortality rates than expected for a population of relatively less education and wealth.

Snippet – Hispanic youths make up 45 percent of the youth population but 53 percent of detainees. – Pima County, Arizona

Snippet – Life expectancy was up for both men and women, and whites and blacks. Although the gaps are closing, women continue to live longer, almost to 81, compared to about 75 for men. Among racial categories, white women have the highest life expectancy (81 years), followed by black women (about 77 years), white men (76) and black men (70). Health statisticians said they don’t have reliable data to calculate Hispanic life expectancy, but they hope to by next year.

Snippet – One governor who does have the resume is New Mexico’s Bill Richardson. When he was running for president this year, many dismissed Richardson as someone simply angling to become Clinton’s VP. He did seem deferential towards her during some of the debates. So it was a shock when he endorsed Obama in late March. A sputtering Bill Clinton, who spent Super Bowl Sunday trying to get Richardson to endorse his wife, was furious. One Clinton loyalist, James Carville, likened Richardson to Judas. Picking Richardson, who is Hispanic, might be an inspired choice, but it could anger the Clinton camp. (Still, don’t rule out Richardson as the running mate.)

Snippet – Taken together, the polls suggest that Arizona is firmly behind John McCain, with a large, but not insurmountable, margin separating him from Barack Obama. Key issues in Arizona are likely to be dominated by the economy as well as immigration. With a quickly growing Hispanic population, the candidate who is able to capture this demographic will have a big advantage on election night.

June 10, 2008

Snippet – Some 112,000 people from the Mexican state of Tabasco attended the Festival of Hope event from June 6 to 8 in Villahermosa, Mexico, according to The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. During the three-day event, 9,492 people made a commitment to Jesus Christ.

Snippet – Bears have been spotted foraging for food and water on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city, as they struggle to survive a dry spell that has depleted their natural reserves of food and water.

Snippet – The Chicago-based mobile Mexican Consulate will be in Green Bay on Wednesday to issue and renew Mexican national identification cards and passports to Mexicans in the community.

June 9, 2008

Snippet – Hispanic shoppers in some states with heavy shares for brands such as Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s Fabuloso also may have pulled down green indexes in places such as California, Texas and New Mexico.

Snippet – Indeed, the diocese counts 210,000 registered Catholics and estimates an even larger number of unregistered, mostly Hispanic Catholics — about 225,000 — who regularly show up for Mass but don’t fill out membership forms. Though some of those Hispanic Catholics live in Raleigh and Durham, many others process chickens and pick cucumbers in Eastern North Carolina counties such as Franklin and Wayne.

Snippet – Before he left to head the U.S. Census Bureau, University of Texas at San Antonio demographer Steve Murdock warned that the Texas economy will be at risk if Hispanics don’t graduate in healthy numbers from high school and college.

Snippet – Among Spanish-language newspapers, the weekly El Sentinel won third place for entertainment sections, and reporter Alsy Acevedo won third in the “Hispanic success story” category. from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors

Snippet – Besides black Christians, Obama has also reached out specifically to Hispanic evangelicals in addition to courting American Christian voters in general with his “God talk” and participation in faith forums.