Republican hopes for attracting more Hispanic voters suffered another setback on Friday when the House passed a bill to effectively end President Obama’s program to defer deportations of undocumented children. Yet the vote is unlikely to deal a severe blow to the party’s chances in November’s midterm elections. Hispanic voters […] Read more »
Republicans’ increasing reliance on white voters may not spell electoral doom just yet
It’s a widely accepted idea that Republicans are sitting on a demographic time bomb: The GOP is getting whiter and whiter in terms of the voters it attracts even as the country is growing increasingly diverse. Marisa Abrajano, an associate professor of political science at the University of California at […] Read more »
How House Republicans Sabotage Their Presidential Candidates
House Republicans’ bill to undo one of President Obama’s immigrant protection programs will never become law. But it could still cause the GOP trouble in the next presidential election. … After the 2012 elections, Republicans declared with great urgency that the party must broaden its appeal to women and racial […] Read more »
Where are California’s Uninsured Now?
Last summer, just before the first open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) conducted a baseline survey of California’s uninsured nonelderly adult population. After the open enrollment period came to a close, we conducted a second survey with the same group of individuals […] Read more »
Where Child Migrant Surge Could Hit Home
The surge of unaccompanied minors coming over the U.S. borders looks to remain a hot topic for the 2014 midterms, as it adds another troubling dimension to Washington’s long-simmering, intractable fight over immigration. … But beyond the national headlines, the impacts may be highly localized. Immigrant populations tend to cluster […] Read more »
Latinos still feeling effects of recession
A new poll of Latino registered voters finds that over half of Latino households continue to be worried about unemployment, even as economists declare the recession is long over. A poll released today by the National Council of La Raza and Latino Decisions uncovers that Latino voters are still facing […] Read more »