Politics + Did You Know Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
In the 8 states poised to gain congressional seats, Latino voter registration grew 45% and Latino voter turnout expanded 50% between 2000 and 2008. – In the 11 states poised to lose seats, Latino voter registration grew 50% and Latino voter turnout expanded 62% between 2000 and 2008.
Latinos make up a combined 77% of the population growth in the eleven states projected to lose a House seat – would have fared worse had Latinos not moved there in record numbers
After the 2010 Census, new Members of Congress in states like Georgia and South Carolina as well as Arizona and Texas will owe their positions, in part, to the expanding Latino population.
June 23, 2009
Fort Worth is the largest city in Texas without a Hispanic representing a House seat
April 7, 2009
An analysis of OIS data by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund reveals that nearly one out of two (44%) of the nation’s 1,046,539 new U.S. citizens was Latino
December 3, 2008
Poll: Miami’s Cuban-Americans favor end to embargo
November 12, 2008
Between 2004 and 2008, Hispanic voters INCREASED as a percentage of the electorate in the following battlegrounds: AZ (+4), CO (+5), IA (+2), IN (+2), MI (+1), MN (+2), MO (+1), MT (+3), NV (+5), NH (+1), NM (+9), NC (+2), ND (+2), OH (+1), PA (+1), SD (+3), VA (+2), WV (+3), and WI (+1). Between 2004 and 2008, Hispanic voters DECREASED as a percentage of the electorate in the following battlegrounds: FL (-1), GA (-1), NJ (-1)
November 7, 2008
In 1964, President Johnson’s top adviser, Jack Valenti, cut down a group of Latinos seeking presidential appointments. “You have one percent of the vote, so you have one percent of my attention,” Raul Yzaguirre recalled Valenti saying.
October 29, 2008
Did You Know? Text Cambio to 62262 to receive regular updates from the campaign in Spanish
September 15, 2008
Former state Assemblyman Robert Pacheco has been named co-chairman of California Latinos for McCain.
About 47% of all eligible Hispanics voted in the past two presidential elections – the George Bush vs. Al Gore contest in 2000 and the Bush vs. John Kerry election in 2004.
September 9, 2008
“About 50,000 Latinos a month turn 18 (in the United States) and are eligible to vote for the first time,” said Mark Lopez, associate director at the Pew Hispanic Center.
Between 1980 and 2007, the Fannie Mae Foundation donated $285,000 to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
September 5, 2008
5% Hispanic Delegates at RNC vs. 11.8% Hispanic Delegates at DNC
August 1, 2008
Did You Know? That 12 years ago Bob Dole ended up with a record-low 21 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Democracia USA was responsible for registering 35% of all the new Hispanic voters in 2006
The Hispanic voting population in the Orlando media market also quadrupled between 1990 -2008 from 66,000 to 234,000
July 28, 2008
Latinos make up 20 percent of Colorado’s population and 12 percent of its eligible voters – not a huge number but enough to tilt the balance in either Obama or McCain’s favor.
July 27, 2008
Democrat Rick Noriega is trying this year to become the first Hispanic U.S. senator from Texas, good news for some El Pasoans eager to see one of their own in the august chamber.
July 24, 2008
A review of congressional nominations to the military academies shows that black and Hispanic lawmakers often recommend fewer students
July 22, 2008
Did You Know? Voter registration jumps in North Carolina – 10,000 identify themselves as Hispanic — a 25 percent increase in this new category.
June 30, 2008
Did You Know? None of the major Latino organizations-NALEO, LULAC, National Council of La Raza (NCLR), MALDEF, Southwest Voter Registration (leaders of SVREP have, however, taken positions) have come out against the Iraq war.
June 26, 2008
Did You Know? Sol Trujillo CEO of Telstra is one of the chairmen of John McCain’s National Hispanic Advisory Board
June 17, 2008
Did You Know? 1 million new Latino voters turned out in California alone for the Democratic primary
June 16, 2008
Did You Know? Obama voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
June 11, 2008
Did You Know? Tuesday, the U.S. House authorized spending $1.6 billion over the next three years to help Mexico and other countries counter growing drug violence, including $74 million for the Justice Department to stem the flow of guns south. Funding, however, will have to come separately.
Did You Know? In previous years, English-dominant second- and third-generation Latinos were the likely voters. Now, almost half of Hispanic voters are foreign-born. NDN, a progressive Democratic group, estimates that about eight out of 10 Hispanics speak Spanish at home.
June 9, 2008
Obama did not fare well against Hillary Clinton among Hispanics in the 2008 primaries, but the early indications are that he will do well among this increasingly Democratic group in the general election. The May data show Obama with a 62% to 29% advantage over McCain among Hispanics.
June 2, 2008
Did You Know? Half the state’s 750,000 Puerto Ricans live in Central Florida. Most of them are Democrats, yet four of the five Puerto Rican elected officials in the region are Republicans, reinforcing the community’s prized independence in a closely divided state.
May 12, 2008
Did You Know? Since January 2006, when Florida began identifying voters as Hispanic, Democratic registration has increased 18 percent.
Did You Know? McCain voted for a proposal to make English the national language in 2006?
April 28, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanics make up nearly 40 percent of Houston’s Harris county’s population but just 15 percent of its electorate – Texas
April 25, 2008
Did You Know? States have considered more than 1,100 bills that deal with aspects of immigration this year (My question are how much money has been spent doing this and what party affiliations did the sponsors have)
April 8, 2008
Tropical decay blights McCain’s Panama birthplace – Did you know he was born in Panama?
April 2, 2008
Did You Know? The Bush administration says it’ll bypass dozens of laws to finish construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
March 17, 2008
Did You Know? President Reagan had the Hispanic vote in mind when he granted roughly 3 million illegal immigrants amnesty in 1986.
March 6, 2008
Did You Know? One of every five votes in Texas was cast by a Latina for the primaries
March 5, 2008
Did You Know? Sometime in the coming months, a single music label, Universal Music, will control almost half of the U.S. Latin music marketplace. – because of recent laws
Did You Know? In Texas, Clinton also won among younger Latinos. She received 53 percent of votes from Hispanics who are 18 to 29 years old.
Did You Know? In Texas, Clinton held a two-to-one advantage over Obama with Hispanic voters
February 25, 2008
Did You Know that on this date: In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act.
February 21, 2008
Texas Latinos are not monolithic in the way they get their news and information either. In the 2006 gubernatorial election, where Latinos made up 18 percent of voters, almost two-thirds of them said that English language television, newspaper, radio and the internet were the media sources that most influenced their votes, according to the William C. Velasquez Institute, which studies Latino voting behavior.
February 20, 2008
Did You Know? Analysts say Hispanics make up about 35 percent to 40 percent of Democratic primary voters but might account for considerably more on March 4 if Texas mirrors the record turnouts in other states.
February 13, 2008
Did You Know? Obama won 54% the Hispanic vote compared to 46% for Clinton in Virginia
February 12, 2008
Did You Know? More than four out of five Latino first-time voters under the age of 30 who voted for Barack Obama on Super Tuesday say that if the Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton, they will not vote at all in the presidential election in November.
February 6, 2008
Did You Know? Nearly three-fifths of Hispanic women and a majority of Hispanic men backed Clinton in New Mexico
Did You Know? Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press showed Hispanic voters backed Clinton by a margin of more than 2-1.
February 5, 2008
Did You Know? Nearly 12 percent of Colorado’s electorate is Hispanic
February 4, 2008
Did You Know? More Than Nine Million Latinos Are Expected To Vote In The Presidential Election This November
January 29, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanics make up 22.8% of the eligible voters in California, a study by the Pew Hispanic Center indicates
January 22, 2008
Did You Know? The 22 Democratic primaries and caucuses of Feb. 5 occur in many states with huge Hispanic populations (e.g., California, New York, New Jersey, Obama’s Illinois), so for Obama’s campaign, the suddenly pressing question is: Will America’s largest minority group, Hispanics, support a candidate from the second-largest minority, African Americans?
Did You Know? Speaking in the sunshine after her Nevada victory, Hillary Clinton said there were many people to thank but mentioned only one: Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles’s Hispanic mayor. Her 64 percent of Nevada’s Hispanic vote produced her victory. Although the culinary workers union had endorsed Barack Obama, many of its workers are Hispanic and went their own way.
January 16, 2008
Did You Know? Texas state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, has landed quite a gig. She will respond in Spanish to President Bush’s Jan. 28 State of the Union address on behalf of Democrats.
January 7, 2008
Did You Know? United States recognizes new Cuban government on this day in 1959. Just six days after the fall of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba, U.S. officials recognize the new provisional government of the island nation.
Did You Know? A new poll finds that illegal immigration registers as a serious problem for a strong majority of people living in four Southwestern states.
December 9, 2007
Next week, billboards will go up advertising the caucus vote on Saturday, January 19th, reminding Hispanic voters to participate in the Democratic presidential nomination. – Nevada
October 29, 2007
An estimated 114,700 Latinos are in Iowa, a 28 percent increase since 2000, according to the Iowa Division of Latino Affairs.
October 1, 2007
Did You Know? In 2004, turnout rates for citizens were 67 percent for non-Hispanic whites, 60 percent for blacks, 44 percent for Asians and 47 percent for Hispanics (of any race).
September 25, 2007
Did You Know? That Mexico’s political party, PAN””the Partido Acción Nacional, will have its conference in Los Angeles on September 30, 2007
September 15, 2007
Did You Know? Hispanics are now about 8% of the electorate, but they’re projected to become 20% by 2020 and one-quarter of the total U.S. population by 2050
Did You Know? Between 1996 and 2004, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote doubled to more than 40%, only to fall in last year’s midterm election to less than 30%. The most recent polls show Hispanics breaking for Democrats over Republicans by 51% to 21%.
Did You Know? George W. Bush spent $3.3 million on Spanish-language TV ads in 2004. John Kerry spent $1.3 million
July 25, 2007
Did You Know? Latinos gained 1% more registered voters and voted 2% more in 2006 than in 2002
July 18, 2007
Did You Know? After Cuban-Americans, Puerto Ricans make up Florida’s largest Hispanic population and its most politically independent – key swingers in a swing state.
July 11, 2007
Did You Know? NCLR will focus its voter drive in 11 key states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas.
July 9, 2007
Did You Know? In Texas, the 2.1 million registered Latino voters already constitute 22 percent of the states total of 9.6 million
Did You Know? Latino voters increased their numbers by more than a third in the past decade and constituted more than 8 percent of the nations eligible voters in 2006
June 27, 2007
Did You Know? Over 1,000 Hispanic elected officials and community leaders from across the country are in Orlando this week for the 24th annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
June 24, 2007
Did You Know? More than 45 bills aimed at illegal immigration have been introduced in the Tennessee Legislature
June 11, 2007
Did You Know? Roughly two-thirds of the nation’s Hispanic residents live in nine of the states holding Democratic primaries or caucuses on or before Feb.
January 28, 2007
Did You Know? A majority of Iowans believe the nation is ready for an African-American; only 40 percent say the same for a Hispanic.
January 25, 2007
Did You Know? Only about three in 10 eligible Hispanics in Central Florida voted in 2006
Did You Know? Tancredo has introduced a bill – H. J. Res. 19: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to establish English as the official language of the United States
January 23, 2007
Did You Know? Nydia Velazquez, who represents New Yorks 12th Congressional district, becomes the first Puerto Rican – and first Hispanic woman – to chair the House Small Business Committee.
January 20, 2007
Did You Know? Bill Richardson has built an expertise in rescuing Americans held hostage abroad.
January 19, 2007
Did You Know? There is a website StopMartinez.com and movement to prevent Mel Martinez from becoming the General Chairman of the Republican National Committee
January 14, 2007
Did You Know? Rep. Solomon Ortiz of Texas is the first Hispanic chairman of the House Armed Services Military Readiness Subcommittee
January 5, 2007
Did You Know? ABC News Correspondent Manuel Medrano is the first Latino in the history of the Supreme Court press corps.
Did You Know? More than 100,000 Latinos in the Chicago area are eligible to vote but are not registered
December 15, 2006
Did You Know? Of the 13 Democrats from Texas in the US House of Representatives six are Hispanics and three are blacks, including two women.
December 8, 2006
Did You Know? When Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was elected to the House of Representatives in 1989, she became the first Hispanic woman and the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Congress
November 16, 2006
Did You Know? Since 1974, Latino voting has averaged a nearly half-million increase each midterm election.
November 10, 2006
Did You Know? There will now be 23 Latinos in the House of Representatives
Did You Know? Election 2006 exit polls showed more than seven in 10 Hispanics voted Democratic in races for House seats. Meanwhile, some 27 percent voted Republican — an 11-percentage-point drop from the prior midterm election in 2002.
November 6, 2006
Did You Know? Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the electorate nationwide, generating about 400,000 new eligible voters per year
November 2, 2006
163,000 Hispanics will vote in Colorado in this election, a 38 percent increase over the 118,000 estimated to have cast ballots in 2002
There are more than 16 million Hispanic eligible voters in the country (or about 3 times the 5.6 million expected to vote in November 2006)
November 1, 2006
Latino candidates are competing in 38 states for the nation’s top federal and state offices in Election 2006
October 31, 2006
Democracia USA (Democracy USA) recently announced that it had registered more than 105,000 new Hispanic voters, including 3,110 in Arizona
October 29, 2006
There are 40,000 Hispanic voters in Nebraska — about 3.2 percent of the state vote
October 27, 2006
WHY are Hispanics & Latinos known as ‘the sleeping giant of American politics’ and ‘a voting bloc that has historically not turned out in huge numbers.’ WHY?
October 22, 2006
In the last year, more than 105,000 Hispanics have registered to vote in Arizona, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
October 18, 2006
Did You Know? In 10 House races, including close contests in Colorado, Georgia and Indiana, voters selected immigration as one of their top concerns – according to a recent survey
October 12, 2006
Did You Know? Today, there are 28 Hispanic members of Congress
Did You Know? In Texas, of the 85,000 additional voters this year, about 77,800 were people with Hispanic surname
October 4, 2006
Did You Know? The number of young people who said they participated in a protest rose form 8 percent in 2002 to 11 percent in 2006. Much of the increase was driven by Latinos – a quarter of Latino youths said they had participated in a protest
October 2, 2006
Did You Know? 20,000 immigrants in Ohio have become citizens since the 2004 election
September 27, 2006
Did You Know? With 20 to 22 million immigrants who are legal and 52 million Asians and Latinos that are US born, “immigrants can potentially become 20% of the entire American electorate making them the crucial swing vote in an election.”
