In the fashion of a TV game show, the Obama campaign is welcoming Republican Mitt Romney to Los Angeles, where today he plans to address the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: Romney, the Obama campaign says, is making “one of...
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Romney’s `Makeover’ Show: Obama
Union, Super-PAC Attack Romney in Spanish-Language Ads
As if Mitt Romney wasn’t already having trouble with the Latino vote, the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama’s re-election and a service workers’ union have teamed for a Spanish-language ad campaign in key states targeting Romney’s stances on immigration and...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush looks over the convention floor from the podium during a microphone check at the Republican National Convention.
Jeb Bush: Party Can `Narrow’ Gap with Democrats Among Latinos
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor raised in Texas and schooled in Miami’s business community, says his Republican Party can narrow a wide gap with Democrats among Latino voters as people “get to know” the party’s presidential nominee, Mitt Romney....
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Carlos Mendez of the Puerto Rico delegation at the Republican National Convention.
Cultural Bridge Over Troubled Water
A multicultural stage in Tampa tonight for the run-up to the running mate: This is the convention of a party lacking the support of Hispanic Americans — with less than one third of Latinos voicing support for the party’s presidential...
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Romney Approves Ad `en Espanol’
Mitt Romney is trying his hand at Spanish. In a television advertisement released by his campaign today, the Republican presidential candidate appeals to Hispanic voters, saying they “are hurting,” and “deserve better” than the poor economic conditions under which they’re...
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Kelly Romney, a second cousin of Mitt Romney, in the Mormon community of Colonia Juarez, Mexico. The candidate's father, George, was born in Mexico, and he still has extended family there, relatives born and raised in the border state of Chihuahua who support his candidacy but not his tough stance on immigration.
‘Soy Mitt Romney’ — the Softer Side
“Soy Mitt Romney,” says the sponsor at the end of the new Spanish-language TV ad touting un “pais de immigrates.” A nation of immigrants — like narrator Craig Romney’s grandfather, Mexico-born. The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee has been advised...
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