The backlash against the Clinton Florida and Michigan strategy
In addition to sounding like she has been trying to rewrite the rules in the middle of the game, I think the strident rhetoric by the Clinton campaign on the sanctioning of FL and MI has done grave...
View ArticleHere she goes again, again
Incredibly, Senator Clinton has revived her efforts to persuade us that the votes of people in Florida and Michigan - two states she agreed along with all the other candidates to ignore and sanction -...
View ArticleAn inconvenient poll -- Obama leads McCain 48-40 in PA
In our long essay about the future of left of center politics, Peter Leyden and I point out that Democrats have won 19 states worth 248 electoral college votes in each of the last four presidential...
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NDN Releases Major Findings on Immigration
Today, NDN released polls conducted among all voters in four key battleground states - Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada - that show strong support for comprehensive immigration reform. As...
View ArticleNDN’s Analysis of Hispanic Voters in Florida Increasingly Relevant
In 2000, Cuban-Americans represented 70 percent of Florida's Hispanic electorate. Today they make up less than half of the Latino electorate in that state, largely attributable to a large influx of new...
View ArticleAd Wars: En Español
With only two weeks to go until Election Day, Sen. Barack Obama is clearly not taking the Hispanic vote for granted as he continues flooding the airwaves in Spanish with no less than three new radio...
View ArticleSotomayor, Hispanics and the Martinez Resignation
Perhaps no figure in the country has been more on the frontlines of the rising anti-Hispanic rhetoric in the Republican Party than Senator Mel Martinez. His political ascendency was engineered by...
View ArticleTaking Jeb Bush Seriously
Matt Bai has a very good piece in today's NYTimes on Jeb Bush. Despite the obvious problems with a third Bush running for President, the Democrats should be taking a potential Bush candidacy seriously...
View ArticleTaking Meg Whitman Seriously
The highly regarded Field Poll has a new poll out this morning which takes an indepth look at the California Governor's race. It is a must read for any student of politics, particularly the...
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