Obama faces Super Tuesday challenge with Hispanics
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The perception that Hispanics won't vote for Barack Obama because he is black is a myth, and Obama trails Hillary Clinton among Latinos because she has long courted their vote and he was late to reach out, experts say.
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Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama cast his chain of Super Tuesday wins as evidence that voters want someone who can change Washington and appeal to voters of both parties in the general election.
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The Democratsâ Sunday night Univision debate was just the first step in a drive to reverse George Bushâs gains among Hispanic voters. On to 'Latino Tuesday.'
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson started a Hispanic outreach program Thursday to try to raise his profile with a voting bloc critical to his campaign. "Because my name is Richardson, many Latinos don't know I'm Latino," the New Mexico governor told reporters in Spanish after a news conference announcing the effort.
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Democratic presidential candidates were meeting Sunday night for the first debate broadcast entirely in Spanish, the clearest sign yet of the growing influence of Hispanic voters.
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George W. Bush and his White House challenger John Kerry will court Hispanic voters, hoping to sway the growing community that could hold the key to the November 2 presidential election.
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Barack Obama, struggling to gain  ground on rival Hillary Clinton in the 2008 White House race,  faces a delicate dilemma in trying to bring down the Democratic  front-runner without spoiling his upbeat image.
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President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will both court the important Hispanic vote Wednesday, as opinion polls show the presidential race has again tightened.
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Capturing the immigration debate in political ads this campaign season &#151; without upsetting Hispanics &#151; is proving tricky for the parties and candidates.
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No one landed a knockout blow on Super Tuesday, so the Clinton and Obama fight continues
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The major political parties are hoping bilingual phone banks, booths at Latin street festivals and television ads on Spanish-language networks will boost voter turnout among the nation's largest minority group.
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In a preview of the battle looming on Feb. 5, the campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) head into today's Nevada caucuses engaged in a fierce fight for Hispanic support, bombarding voters with Spanish-language advertisements and literature and arguing over...
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Bill Richardson aspires to become the first Hispanic elected president of the United States, but rarely emphasized his ethnicity during the Ã¢ÂÂexploratoryÃ¢ÂÂ phase of his bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination. As a result, polls showed most voters Ã¢ÂÂ and even most Hispanics Ã¢ÂÂ where unaware that the Ã¢ÂÂAngloÃ¢ÂÂ-surnamed governor of New Mexico is Hispanic.
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Barack Obama, a rising African-American star of the Democratic Party and Ken Salazar, a newly-minted Hispanic senator-elect, toasted their historic elections to the US Senate on Wednesday, traditionally a bastion of white male patricians.
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The US Hispanic community, galvanized by a drive to reform US immigration law and wooed by presidential candidates, has become a political player ahead of the 2008 vote.
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DURHAM, N.H., Feb. 12 -- The opening days of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign have displayed all the promise of his candidacy, with large crowds, pulsating energy and a charismatic leading man. But the Illinois Democrat faces several serious challenges if he hopes to convert potential into...
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State presages rise of identity politics: Hispanics sided with her, blacks went for Obama.