The aftermath of the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act by a judge in Boston, Mass., could influence the outcome of November’s midterm elections.
Last Thursday, Judge Joseph Tauro ruled in two separate cases that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the 10th Amendment, which enumerates states’ rights, and the Equal Protection Clause.
Reaction to the ruling was mixed.
For all political parties, the status of the economy in the summer immediately prior to that year’s November election, are crucial in helping or hurting them win in their district or state.
This year economic numbers and predictions from federal officials and private analysts are anything but encouraging for the White House and for Democratic candidates running in November.
Two polls released by the alphabet networks on Tuesday confirm what is becoming increasingly obvious, even to the most partisan officials in the Barack Obama administration.
The lead of an ABC-Washington Post simply states: “Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low.”
Smack in the middle of a very hot summer, officials in President Barack Obama’s Administration are beginning to sweat the real possibility that Democrats will lose control of the House of Representatives in the November mid-term elections.
This comes not from elected Republican officials, or from news analysts. This comes directly from a top level administration official. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said so directly Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following statement today on the House floor in support of a Resolution she authored congratulating Juan Manuel Santos on his victory in Colombia’s presidential election and recognizing the U.S.-Colombia alliance:
“I rise today as the proud author of House Resolution 1465, which [...]
The headlines for Tuesday’s primary elections were easy to write. This was the day conservative women will long remember. Four Republicans won, or easily led, their primaries and a middle-of-the road Democratic incumbent upset a progressive liberal backed by big labor.
By James Nava.
Among recent efforts to recruit conservative Hispanic voters in the United States, “Latino Partnership” stands out as an initiative put into effect by the American Principles Project. This particular initiative attempts to channel the conservative Hispanic vote that is so necessary to maintain conservatives’ and Hispanics’ traditional values and principles
By José R. Cárdenas. As he has been telling us for years, Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chavez’s aspiration is to build “21st-century socialism” for his benighted countrymen. He never has told anyone exactly what that meant, but a decade into his rule, it should surprise no one that his 21st-century socialism bears a strong resemblance to the garden-variety 20th century kind, replete with centralization of power, assaults on private property, and intolerance of dissent. The result should surprise no one either: economic decline and increasing domestic discontent.
“America’s Voice” just released a report that chronicles how over the past decade, Latino voters have steadily increased their political power, and made a decisive impact in races at all levels, including the Presidency.
In 2008, for the first time in recent history, Latinos outperformed their percentage of the voting eligible population in the California Democratic primary.
Latino turnout in that election was 29 percent of the total vote while only making up 22 percent of the voting eligible population in important electoral states like California. But that is a [...]
