What happens in Las Vegas may stay there, but there’s less of it lately. Particularly in the way of joblessness. On a day when swing-state news is flying — with word of President Barack Obama holding an eight-point advantage over...
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Tourists view a lion on top of a glass roof inside the MGM Resorts International casino in Las Vegas.
Joblessness Down in Critical Cities
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Workers urge new citizens to register to vote after a naturalization ceremony in Miami.
Magic Number of the Day: 6.2 million
That’s the number of Hispanics in Colorado, Florida and Nevada, according to Census Bureau population estimates as of July 1, 2011. There were 4.36 million Hispanics in Florida (23 percent of the population), 1.07 million in Colorado (21 percent) and...
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Mitt Romney campaigns in Naples, Fla., focusing on jobs and the economy in order to make inroads with Hispanic voters in Central Florida.
Romney’s ‘Own Words’ in Spanish
Before this election contest is finished, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will have had a heaping taste of their own words — in English, and in Spanish, too. Romney’s often-replayed remark about the very poor — “that’s not...
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