Obama Shifts On Controversial Social Issues, Galvanizing Voters

Friday, June 22, 2012 Obama Shifts On Controversial Social Issues, Galvanizing Voters Between delivering steaming platters of enchiladas and clearing away the remains, Evelyn Rivera often overhears conversations in the Orlando, Fla.-area restaurant where she waits tables. This year, Rivera, 23, has heard more than one about the choices facing Latino voters in 2012. "I think there's this sense that the choice is between the guy who has deported millions and this guy who suggests things like self-deportation and maybe wouldn't mind that electrified border fence," said Rivera, an undocumented immigrant and immigration reform activist. "So, why vote?" Jorge Plasencia, Cuban-American, To Head National Council Of La Raza 'Secret Life of the American Teenager' Star Francia Raisa On Her Co-Star's Wedding Elections 2012: Immigration Suddenly Roiling Presidential Contest Justice Sonia Sotomayor Still Getting Gifts From The Public Hip-Shaking Superstar's Vintage Video Surfaces On The Web BLOG POSTS Cheech Marin: PART 3: What is a Chicano Artist? was literally backed into a corner of the exhibition by three large scary braided-armpit-hair Chicanas wearing overalls. They reminded me of my Aunt Bolita, somebody you would never want to mess with in life. "Where's all the political art!!" Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas: Is Arizona the Worst Place in the Country to Be a Latina? Something is very wrong in Arizona. And if the U.S. Supreme Court does not intervene, Latinas in the state will live under one of the harshest immigration laws in the country -- one that that is sure to encourage further stigmatization of people of color. Dr. L. Randolph Lowry: Living the DREAM: How Universities Can Walk With Hispanic Students on the Journey to a College Degree We have learned a few things in the process that other universities may find helpful as they seek to accommodate these highly motivated Hispanic young people. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: VP Rubio May Not Be a Total Wash With Hispanic Voters Even in a worse case, if Romney doesn't get one extra Latino vote than the GOP norm, it will still be a significant percentage and number of Latino votes. If he does better with Latino voters in one or two of the swing states, this could pose more of a threat to Obama. Leo Pierson: Reality and the President's New Immigration Directive It is as important to know what this new policy is not, as it is to know what the policy is. The new directive is not amnesty. It is not a path to citizenship. It is not even a path to legalization. Those paths cut directly through the heart of Congress.

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