Donald Trump’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border marks the extent to which negative views on immigration fuel his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination – and the limits they may impose. About half of potential GOP voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll oppose a path to legal status […] Read more »
California GOP worries that Trump’s trash talk could hurt its image
… For years California Republicans have tried to change their party’s image, to invite everyone into the pool — especially Latinos, whose enmity arose after a 1994 GOP effort to block immigrants without proper papers from state services. And now, the architecturally coiffed, anger-venting Trump has cannonballed in, disrupting the […] Read more »
Stop laughing at Donald Trump
He may not have a shot at becoming president, but Donald Trump has already succeeded in uniting America — one nation, awash in snark. … But writing Trump off is dangerous. The billionaire may play the buffoon, but he is an important one — one whom Americans appear to adore. […] Read more »
The Latino Threshold to Win in 2016
In 2012, polling by Latino Decisions found that Mitt Romney won the support of just 23 percent of Latino voters. In 2016, the Republican presidential candidate will need twice that support to win the White House. The cause for the GOP’s “Latino deficit” is no secret and can largely be […] Read more »
Like Kids in an Ice-Cream Shop
… While GOP apparatchiks are concerned about the consequences of the unprecedented size of the field of contenders, Republican voters are deliriously happy with the large and varied selection of candidates. … There is nothing inherently wrong with starting out with a big field; typically, the Darwinian course of caucuses […] Read more »
Noticias Univisión Poll: The Latino Vote
The first public opinion poll for the 2016 presidential campaign, conducted among Hispanic voters in an exclusive by Noticias Univisión, reveals that aspiring Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is comfortably ahead of her main Republican rivals within this important voter constituency. If the presidential election were to take place at […] Read more »