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Viviana Hurtado Goes to the 2012 Republican National Convention with LATISM!
August 29, 2012
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Tampa, Florida ¡Buenas tardes from Tampa, where I’m here covering the 2012 Republican Convention with LATISM! I’ll be live tweeting speeches, interviewing people, filming and editing video to bring you a unique, behind the curtain view of the RNC 2012. Read More...
GOP VP
August 26, 2012
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From the archives of my Latina Magazine weekly Election 2012 column: With Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich out, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is honing in on a Vice President to complete the Republican ticket. For political junkies and the media, this process of tapping Read More...
When Pros are Cons and Cons are Pros: GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan
August 14, 2012
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Mitt Romney was so overcome with emotion while introducing Paul Ryan as his running mate to challenge President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in November, that he bellowed, “the next President of the United States!” Once the snark Read More...
“Ain’t No Stopping Us Now” or Latino Voters Explained in One Song
June 20, 2012
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Kitchen tables is where family budgets are stretched next to clipped coupons or if you’re digitally savvy like Cuponeando‘s Yoly Mason, bar-scanned into her smartphone. Growing up we had a round table which held in its unbroken circle my dreams, Read More...
“Juntos con Romney” & “El Presidente Nos Apoya”–In Inglés Pu-leaze
June 7, 2012
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Maybe all those dreams I had in the Fall with Mitt Romney confirmed my hunch that he and I have a connection that goes beyond politics, that we are connected deep in our psyches. As I have written most recently Read More...
“Dream a Little Bigger,” Unless You’re a DREAMer
June 1, 2012
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Ignore. Shhh. Keep Quiet. That’s the campaign’s strategy on immigration since the GOP Presidential debates. Mitt Romney supports legal immigration, a position that breaks with the fringe such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform which does not support any Read More...
Election 2012: Same-Sex Marriage Now, Immigration Policy Later?
May 17, 2012
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So here I was mindin’ my own business at a spontaneous Wednesday Happy Hour on a gorgeous, balmy perfect DC PM when my friend ripped into me over my latest Latina Magazine column. “Don’t you realize that President Obama is the President, Read More...
Cinco de Mayo: TWLC Goes to the White House–Sheep or Wolf?
May 4, 2012
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In five and a half years of living and reporting in Washington, DC I had only been to the White House twice, once to shoot a stand up for a news story and the other time as a guest of Read More...
