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Hispanic Voters and the Republican Party
One reason Mitt Romney lost the Florida primary to John McCain in 2008 was the votes of Republican Hispanics. President Obama then swept all Hispanics by 58 percent...
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenOne reason Mitt Romney lost the Florida primary to John McCain in 2008 was the votes of Republican Hispanics. President Obama then swept all Hispanics by 58 percent. Would Romney or Gingrich to better this time around? What about Hispanics in other parts of the country? Also, EU leaders meet again on the debt crisis, and a UN report on the sustainability of human civilization. Can the world meet growing demands for food, energy and water?
Banner image: Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder holds a Puerto Rican flag as she directs a question to Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich after he was endorsed by the National Hispanic Leadership Network in Miami, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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European heads of state are meeting again in Brussels to accomplish a "closer union" by coordinating budget policies and amassing a debt fund and deal with the ongoing crisis in Greece. Stephen Fidler is Brussels Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal .
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Republican talk about an electric border fence, e-verify and deportation was one thing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Tomorrow in Florida and Saturday in Nevada it will be a different story, when many voters will be Hispanics.
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At the African Union conference in Ethiopia today, the UN’s 22-member Panel on Global Sustainability issued a stark warning about sustaining the nations of the World as we know them.
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