Latinos not Invited to Any of the Parties

Wed30Aug2006

Latinos not Invited to Any of the Parties

12:24 H | Topics: Controversia - Immigration - Politics

While Latinos are generally thought to be more loyal to Democrats than to Republicans, the recent ad run by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which you can now see here) has Latinos questioning where their loyalties should go come election day. With Republicans pushing for immigration reforms that range from the middle of the road to the extreme with matching, they aren't looking too welcoming to Latinos either. So what is a Latino planning on heading to the polls to do? Where have the commercials gone with politicians pandering to us in broken Spanish? Obviously this two party system is missing something that we Latinos need.
Where do we go from here?
As a Latina who votes, not so much because I trust that the system works (as we have seen from presidential elections past) but because it is one tool in our basket and because people put their lives on the line so that I could vote, I am seriously considering sitting this one out.