Wooing the Latino Vote

Today’s Washington Post has an article by Charles Babington suggesting that House Republicans are complicating the Republican Party’s efforts to woo the growing Latino vote. The article discusses two recent House actions that risk alienating some Latino voters – the enforcement only immigration bill and the more recent failure to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act b/c of the Act’s 30-year-old bilingual ballot provision. It is predicted that the latter issue will be resolved and the Act will be reauthorized, but in the meantime, the move has raised some ire. The story is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062902073.html

-jmc