Immigration Reform Not the Key to the Latino Vote
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 13th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Immigration Reform Not the Key to the Latino Vote
Reihan Salam, NRO
Will GOP support for immigration reform convince low-income Latino voters to favor Republicans, who are skeptical about increasing redistribution, over Democrats, who are enthusiastic about doing so? Lynn Vavreck, a political scientist at UCLA, discusses the Republican failure to win Latino votes in The Upshot without ever mentioning the fact that Latino households tend to earn substantially less than U.S. households as a whole. She instead focuses on immigration policy. Drawing on data from Latino Decisions, a polling firm, she argues that to win Latino voters, Republicans must champion…
No Matter What Happens, Politicians Will Live Well
John Tamny, RCM
Any discussion of the top hotels in Washington, D.C. always includes the Four Seasons, which is situated at the eastern edge of Georgetown. There are arguably better ones in the District today, the new ones a function of D.C. experiencing a boom with money taxed away from its subjects in the fifty states, but even amid a great deal of hotel growth on the very high end, the Four Seasons remains very much part of any conversation about the best.
