Kennedy's Illness, Obama, & Hispanic Voters?

admin — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:50:00 GMT

5/21/08- 2 words for you: Not Good. Not good in many ways, and of course our best wishes go out to Senator Kennedy in his recovery. I met him just under a year ago at an event announcing Hispanic demographic results, together with Hispanic union leaders...(read more)

Hispanos: El Great Divide...Choosing McCain or Clinton

admin — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:28:00 GMT

5/18/08-George W. Bush won 40% of the Latino vote in 2004, which was enough to help him secure re-election. Based on the behavior of Hispanic primary voters, Sen. Clinton is in a much better position to reclaim to cut into that number, a difficult task...(read more)

Clinton Machine Is Alive...But Can She Afford to Stay?

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:27:00 GMT

By: Nitza Soledad Pérez

With a ten percent lead in Pennsylvania who can seriously ask Senator Clinton to abandon the race! Mrs. Clinton got the badly needed victory that will buy her more time in this competition, but many would argue that she will not surpass Obama in popular vote nor in the number of delegates after the end of the primary season... and to her disadvantage, super delegates started abandoning her ship a few months ago.

Can this victory actually give her back some of the momentum and change the trend? Well, her campaign is saying that after her big  Pennsylvania triumph she has managed to raise 2.5 million dollars overnight. And why do I talk about money???? Because for her to continue fighting, she needs to pay  for advertising.

Obama raised 42 million dollars in the month of April, while she only raised 9.3 million.   But the cloud within this silver lining is that she owes more than ten million dollars to her consultants...Is this the moment when Bill comes to the rescue with his innate ability to fundraise?

I guess John McCain could also use a little bit of Bill´s help, since he is not doing that well in the fundraising area either. He only managed to gather 15 million dollars last month and so far he has 11.6 million in the bank for the month of April. Terrible, considering he is already the Republican candidate. Excuse me Ron Paul, but I don´t think there is a slim chance for you here...

Whatever Obama´s secret is, he´s really getting the money from his supporters. And in the meantime we have to wait for the next chapter of the  Democratic saga on May 3, the Indiana and South Carolina primaries.

Nitza Soledad Pérez is the Washington DC Correspondent for TeleSUR TV, a 24 hrs Spanish TV News Network that broadcasts to Latin America and the Caribbean. Nitza has a master´s degree in International Relations from American University in Washington and is a former ABC News employee.

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