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Jessica Puente Bradshaw, Winner!

By Paul Gable

Jessica Puente Bradshaw claimed the Republican Party nomination in U.S. House District 34 Tuesday night with a 55 percent to 45 percent victory over opponent Adela Garza in a primary runoff election.
Puente Bradshaw grabbed a quick lead in the early vote totals and built on her margin throughout the vote tallying to win by a 5,308 to 4,283 vote margin in the newly formed Congressional District.


“I am very grateful to my supporters, friends and my family,” Puente Bradshaw said. “They worked very hard. They put up with a lot of my demands insofar as getting voters out. I am very proud of them. It was a grass-roots movement.”


Throughout the primary campaign, Puente Bradshaw demonstrated her resiliency as a candidate. Beginning as a significant underdog, she came within 200 votes of Garza’s leading total in the first round of primary balloting.

http://southtexasdaily.com/puente-bradshaw-wins/

Romney could beat Obama, if he courts Hispanics

Recent polls show Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney closing the gap with rival President Obama. The November presidential election could be decided by a handful of states, some of which – Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico for instance – could swing with the Hispanic vote, considered a slam-dunk for the incumbent. 

Hispanics gave Obama two-thirds of their vote in 2008 and in a recent NBC/WSJ polls favored the president over Romney by a whopping 47 points.

However, if team Romney smartens up, the GOP hopeful could siphon off enough of the Latino vote to give him the win. Like everything else these days, it all depends on jobs.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/08/romney-could-beat-obama-if-courts-hispanics/#ixzz1uNawgHNT

Alberto Gonzales: Counting Hispanic Votes - A Mission For Converts

It is no secret that Governor Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, faces a challenge attracting Hispanic support in November's presidential election.  What is not so obvious is why a Republican candidate is having such a difficult time connecting with a group generally considered conservative on issues relating to faith, family, and country.


 After all, in part due to the policies of President Obama, Hispanic Americans suffer more than other groups from higher unemployment, falling household median income, and a rising poverty rate.  Hispanics are also unhappy with the President's deportation policies and his failure to honor his campaign pledge to them to push for immigration reform.


However, in spite of these circumstances, many polls show President Obama enjoys a significant double-digit level of support from Hispanics over Governor Romney.  Shared values and failed economic policies apparently are not enough to offset the inconsistent - sometimes half-hearted - attempts of the Republican Party to make Hispanics feel welcomed and supported.


Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/04/30/alberto-gonzales-counting-hispanic-votes-mission-for-converts/#ixzz1tiSBtPtl

Myths About the Hispanic Vote

Josh Kraushaar of the National Journal dismantles some myths about Hispanic voters:

Mitt Romney was mocked for calling on illegal immigrants to self-deport at a debate last year, but a new Pew Hispanic Center study shows that's exactly what many Mexican immigrants have been doing on their own, with as many leaving the United States than coming in, between 2005-2010.  The report will have a seismic impact on our country's political debate, including this year's presidential election.

For Democrats, the expected long-term explosion of Latino voters may not end up materializing.  While there was a significant spike in the Hispanic population at the first half of the last decade, the economic recession and tighter immigration crackdowns have slowed that to a trickle.  It's not a given that Hispanic voters will make a larger share of the electorate than in 2008, as many in the Obama campaign had presumed (and depended upon). Already Democrats are facing challenges registering Hispanic voters in battleground states, like Arizona.

Continue Reading »  http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/rethinking-the-hispanic-vote.php

Republicans name Nevada organizer to court Hispanic voters

The Republican National Committee this morning announced Nevada is among six states where the party is placing community organizers in a bid to boost GOP standing among Hispanic voters.

The others states are Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina and Virginia. "We're going to engage Hispanics and Latinos like we have never done before at the RNC," chairman Reince Priebus said on a call with reporters. Priebus and other Republicans have made no secret they planned to beef up their presence in a handful of states where Hispanics figure to be a key demographic in November.

Continue Reading » http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/politics/Republicans_name_Nevada_organizer_to_court_Hispanic_voters.html?ref=835

Ozzie deFaria for U.S. Congress

Ozzie deFaria is a 2012 Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House representing the 20th Congressional District of Florida. DeFaria is running in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing Florida's 20th District. deFaria is seeking the nomination on the Republican ticket.

The signature filing deadline is May 7, 2012, with the primary taking place on August 14, 2012. Incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz is seeking re-election on the Democratic ticket.

http://ozzieforcongress.com/