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Thursday, October 9, 2008
McCain, Obama keep sparring in Spanish on immigration
While the presidential candidates don’t say a word about immigration in English, they continue to fight over it in Spanish.
This week, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign launched a new Spanish-langauge ad which says that Sen. John McCain “surrendered to anti-immigrant forces” and “betrayed” the Latino community.
The ad refers to McCain saying during a presidential debate that he would not vote for his own immigration bill.
The legislation — popular in the Latino community — would have provided a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and created a guest worker program.
During the presidential campaign, McCain backed away from the bill saying that border security must come first, before any legalization plan.
McCain’s camp has denounced Obama’s Spanish-langauge ads, saying that McCain championed the immigration bill at great political risk.
Here is the Obama ad:
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Some Latinos still undecided on presidential election
A new poll says that a significant number of Latino voters in key battleground states are either undecided or still open to persuasion in the presidential election.
In Colorado, one in five Latino voters are undecided or do not strongly support one of the candidates. In Florida, it’s one in four and in Nevada, it is one in three.
The survey released by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, known as NALEO, also found that the economy is the top election priority of latino voters.
Nearly a third of respondents said they had trouble making their mortgage or rent payments at some point during the past 12 months.
Read more here.
