The Elusive Latino Voter

History reconsidered

One place to understand how Republicans have stumbled when it comes to Latino voters is the attempt by the Reagan administration to simultaneously declare an end to racism in 1980—mission accomplished!—and woo Latinos as a racial group because they presented as religious and more socially conservative. Yet, as White House ...
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The Elusive Latino Voter

Elections Turn On Policy, Not Public Relations

To win back the House, Democrats need to show how they will make change

My liberal and left-wing friends continue to puzzle over a single, unanswerable question: why do white, working class people vote "against their interests"? Perhaps the reason that this is an unanswerable question is that it is the wrong question. I would like to suggest that they don't vote against their ...
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Elections Turn On Policy, Not Public Relations