Barack Courts Latino Voters
Key quote: "Obama's announcement last month that he would spend an unprecedented $20 million to woo Latino votes."
Key quote: "Obama's announcement last month that he would spend an unprecedented $20 million to woo Latino votes."
| NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release August 13, 2008 |
Contact: Adam Alonso cell: 551-795-4927 or alonso@nuestraamerica2008.com |
Nuestra America Unveils The Passion IndexFind Out Who You're More Passionate About: Obama or McCain | |
| New York, NY – Nuestra America, a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase the political influence of Latino's by registering them to vote, educating them about the issues, and informing them where the candidates stand on the issues, unveiled The Passion Index on its website www.NuestraAmerica2008.com. Adam Alonso, the executive director of Nuestra America, said, "We are unveiling The Passion Index to enable our members throughout the country to answer 50 policy-oriented questions and discover which presidential candidate they most agree with and who they are most passionate about." The Passion Index uses 50 different policy issues and their relative passion about each issue to determine its score. Voters are able to use their Passion Index to determine whether they should support Senator Obama or Senator McCain. The issues range from Foreign and Military Policy, Domestic Social Policy, Domestic Economic Policy, and Immigration. Adam Alonso remarked, "The Passion Index takes into account the most pressing policy issues of this election and enables members to rate themselves against Senators Obama and McCain. It also demonstrates that the Latino community is not a single-issue group." According to the latest Pew Hispanic Center poll, Latinos ranked family and pocketbook issues, the cost of living, jobs, health care, and crime as the most pressing issues facing the country. Alonso concluded, "While immigration remains on the minds of Latino voters, this year's election will determine the path of public policy in many different areas. Latino voters throughout the country are aware of the importance to register, educate themselves on the issues, and vote in November. The Passion Index demonstrates the diversity of issues concerning our community and is a fun way to learn more about presidential candidates' beliefs." Nuestra America announced its online National Voter Registration Drive through its website. Nuestra America is also canvassing sporting events, cultural events, college campuses and beaches throughout the summer in order to register people to vote. Nuestra America's website offers the ability to register to vote in each of the 50 states and highlights where each candidate for Federal Office stands on 50 different issues. Additionally, Nuestra America will not only help register people to vote, educate them on the issues, but will be working throughout the country to ensure their voices are heard on Election Day. For more information about Nuestra America, please visit their website www.NuestraAmerica2008.com. | |
Key quote: "Democrats plan to invest $20 million, mostly in four critical battleground states, to motivate Latino voters to go to the polls in November and vote for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama."
Key quote: "Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched a massive $20 million effort to attract Latino voters on Tuesday, hoping to erase the inroads the Republican Party has made with the key demographic group in the last two presidential elections."
Key quote: "Barack Obama is steadily winning over Hispanic voters, defying theories that the potentially crucial minority would be unlikely to support a black presidential candidate at this year's election, Latino leaders say."
Key quote: "Barack Obama's presidential campaign has recently increased its efforts to reach Latino voters by appointing two veteran operatives to key outreach positions. During the Democratic Party primary, rival Hillary Clinton attracted more than two-thirds of the Latino, or Hispanic, vote, making it brutally clear that Obama has problems winning over the community."
Key quote: "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama has been warned to do more to help illegal immigrants become citizens or risk losing the Latino vote, Hispanic Democratic lawmakers say.
Obama, D-Ill., and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, was advised that unless he promises comprehensive immigration reform, lawmakers told The Hill, the only other way he will get the Latino supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., may be to name her as his running mate."
Key quote: "The Democratic presidential nominee this year was supposed to be a sure thing with Hispanics. The party's candidates received almost 70 percent of the Hispanic vote in the 2006 congressional elections, up from less than 60 percent two years earlier. Democrats had expected to replicate or improve on the 2006 showing this year, after a Republican-backed anti-immigration movement sparked protests by hundreds of thousands of Hispanics."
Key quote: "Obama is a stranger in South Texas, compared with Clinton, who has been coming to the region for three decades, first to help register voters in the 1972 presidential campaign, later to help her husband, former president Bill Clinton, in his 1992 and 1996 campaigns."
Key quote: "Obama won Santa Barbara County and ran stronger in Northern California population centers, winning Alameda, Marin, San Francisco and Sacramento counties."
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