Latino Hope?

My last post will be on the article about what the future may hold for the Latino Bloc. In an article I found about a book called Magical Urbanism- Latinos reinvent the U.S. city, the author talks about the Latino Americans and their status in the 21st century. He talks about the possiblities of California being the center for change for the country of Mexico and other Latin American countries, and also suggests that they might be at the heart of the U.S. Labor movement for all peoples. He refers to Latino voters in the U.S. as the sleeping giant of U.S. politics. This all is just being tested with the upcoming election of our new president who hopefully will be a democrat. So what are all of your thoughts and views on the Latino Bloc's future sucess in the 21st century?

site: http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/d-titles/davis_m_magical_urbanism.shtml

Democratic Music

I found an interesting article on the songs that Clinton and Obama made to try and capture the Latino vote. I used the titles of the songs and searched them on youtube to listen to them. They were all pretty corny to me, but in the article a Latino critic analyzes the songs and says they all suck except for one of Obamas. I think that it is very funny that they are trying to make catchy music to appeal to the Latino Bloc. This just reinforces the idea that the Latino Vote is vital to the Democratic outcome. Along with the idea of music here is a quote from an article, "Mrs Clinton’s best chance is to overtake Mr Obama in the popular vote. On most counts, she trails Mr Obama currently by more than 700,000. This lead is shortened significantly if Florida and Michigan are included. The gap could be closed all together if she can hang on until the “second-class citizens” of Puerto Rico – who are barred from voting in the general election – have their Democratic primary. Over a million are expected to turn out in a contest where her advantages among Latino voters and role representing hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans as New York senator should give her a handsome victory." I found this interesting because of the fact that Clinton should have an even better chance of getting the Puerto Rican vote due to the fact that she is the senator for the city where most Puerto Ricans reside.

Sites: http://media.www.pittnews.com/media/storage/paper879/news/2008/04/18/Opinion/Winning.The.Latino.Vote-3334385.shtml

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3671773.ece

Dual Citizenship

With the obvious problems of dual citizenship all around the world, a question that I have been wondering is wether it will still be allowed under the future presidency. I then came upon this article about Senator Barack Obama about how he himself has dual citizenship. He shares his American nationality with that of Kenya. So for sure Obama will be a symbol of support for the idea of Dual Citizenship. Do you guys think that it is a good thing that a possible leader of the free world would have dual citizenship? You see the effects of dual citizenship might be much more evident if it is displayed on such a macro scale as the presidency.

Check out the link: http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=731

LA COMMERCIAL DEL OBAMA

HAHAHAH just thought that this was a funny clip of how the Obama has made commercials to appeal to the Latinos. Leave comments about anything you want.

Clinton's scandal

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8479.html