Poll: Obama swamps Romney among youth, independent, Latino voters

As prominent Tea Partiers desperately urge Republican lawmakers and Republican presidential primary voters to move further to the right, President Obama is racing ahead among independents. Public Policy Polling, delivering results today from its first national poll (pdf), reports that Obama leads GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney by a solid five points and that he leads Romney by a whopping 41-point spread among moderate voters.

Arizona legislature bans ethnic studies programs

A week after passing a state immigration law that has drawn wide criticism that it is a racist law or at least will promote anti-American racial profiling, the Arizona legislature has banned state public schools from offering ethnic studies…

Upbeat Romanoff rededicated to Senate run

DENVER– Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff minutes ago announced that he was rededicated to his primary campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. He told a crowd of roughly sixty people gathered outside his campaign headquarters here that he called this fraught press conference only to “clear the air,” explaining that he had received hundreds of emails and phone calls over the past week urging him to drop his Senate bid to run for governor in the wake of news that Gov. Bill Ritter would not seek a second term. Politics watchers in the state expected he might declare that he planned to run as lieutenant governor on a ticket topped by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Romanoff sought to put an end to any speculation along those lines.

“I am running for U.S. Senate,” he said. “I will not accept any other job offers.”

Texas Board of Ed to battle over the role of minorities, religion in history

Early next year, minority advocates will face off against the religious right in what statesman.com called “a fight…that could make the last one look like a mild skirmish.”

The setting is the Texas Board of Education social studies hearings.

Census Bureau to woo wary Latinos with song

In light of generalized fear of census authorities on the part of Latinos and a proposed Latino boycott of the 2010 census, the U.S. Census Bureau has been exploring ways to ensure participation within the national Latino community. …

Penry wanders in the Latino-Republican wilderness

Senate Minority Leader and candidate for governor Josh Penry addressed the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Colorado Thursday in Denver. He said the GOP was “in the wilderness” for a reason: in his opinion, for doubling the national debt. Penry,…

Surge in Colorado deportations points to national increase in enforcement actions

Recent data shows that Colorado and Wyoming saw a 7 percent increase in deportations of undocumented immigrants in 2007, but the information should come as no surprise because the federal government has been dramatically stepping up enforcement actions, including worksite raids and criminal prosecutions.

Latino voters may be deciding factor in Colorado

Latino votes could very well swing Colorado for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to a new report.

State of U.S. Latinos has Suffered in Bush-led Union, Hispanic Leaders Say

George W. Bush won the White House in 2004 with the help of large numbers of Latino voters. But his failure to push through comprehensive immigration reform and the “onslaught” against Latinos that gathered momentum on his watch leave some…