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With the Boxer-Fiorina race continually veering between a toss-up and a slight Democratic leaning, the battle for who will be California’s next junior Senator should be heating up at a rate which could place it in comparable company with races such as the negativity-laden Illinois Senate Race and the acrimonious Ohio Gubernatorial Race, to say nothing of some of the more nasty crossfire which has recently begun percolating in the Governors’ race at home in California. But it isn’t. Fiorina and

As much as the media has sensationalized immigration reform since President Obama’s promise to pass a bill, the issue is not a top concern for many Hispanics according to a new poll from the Pew Hispanic Center. According to the poll, the immigration reform debate reignited when Arizona passed their immigration law. However, education, jobs, and healthcare are the top three concerns for many Hispanics at this time.  In comparison to these other issues, immigration reform takes the number five s

When Meg Whitman bested Steve Poizner a few months ago, moderates all over California breathed a sigh of relief that a Republican with more in common ideologically with Arnold Schwarzenegger than with Rush Limbaugh would be competing in the gubernatorial race. Moreover, Whitman’s deep pockets freed up the California Republican Party to work on its House races, as well as give the occasional buck to the less-wealthy but still effective Carly Fiorina. What no one expected, however, is that after

Between 2007 and 2009, the Great Recession appears to have discouraged illegal immigrants from flowing into the US, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study. “The annual flow of unauthorized immigrants into the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center,” the report said. The overall reduction in illegals, 8 percent according to the report, is the fi

Gov. Jan Brewer, signer of Arizona’s immigration law, is finding herself in some deep water due to her recent mishaps. Just this past week, the Arizona governor embarrassed herself in her first gubernatorial debate. Furthermore, some believe this could very well weaken the case for the necessity of an Arizona-like illegal immigration law. According to AOL News, Brewer struggled to summarize her accomplishments for her state and thus portrayed herself as being unprepared for her challenge agains

The Tea Party could make a big impact in Congress, unless rival political factions successfully paint the largely independent-minded voter movement as being driven by racism in the controversy surrounding illegal immigration. The liberal leaning Huffington Post wrote in August that Tea Party activists held a rally in support of the Grand Canyon State’s controversial law.  The HuffPost reported that just around 400 protestors gathered together for the sake of urging President Obama to devote mor

Over the weekend, 47 years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. shook the conceptions of race in the United States at the Lincoln Memorial, Latino immigration activists boarded buses from California to Arizona in an attempt to mobilize the Latino vote against the Republican Party. The effort, mounted by members of the United Farm Workers Union and Promise Arizona, aims to avoid a repeat of a low 25 percent turnout in the recent Arizona primaries for the upcoming midterms now less than 70 days

One of the highlights in news publications covering this past weekend’s State GOP convention is the California Republican Party’s refusal to embrace Arizona’s immigration law as a legitimate approach in dealing with the nation’s “broken” immigration system.  The Washington Independent writes, “The party skipped over a resolution that would have stated the party’s support for SB 1070 and Proposition 187, a 1994 effort to cut public benefits to undocumented immigrants.” Proposition 187, as many C

The battle for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat, not to mention the position of Governor, is now in full swing. The Republicans held their convention this week in San Diego, at which nominees Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina laid out their vision for the future of California, and (equally important) explained why their opponents are incapable of seeing the right one. Prior to the convention, Whitman and Fiorina had previously been running in seemingly segregated races, with little to no overlap between

This week, California became the first state to be provided with resources to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border with Mexico.  The move is a part of a promise from the Obama administration to secure the border.  Gov. Schwarzenegger said he was proud to be the first state to have troops get to work. “I take great pride in serving as Commander-in-Chief of the California National Guard. Our soldiers and airmen are true action heroes who respond to disasters at home and overseas. T