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Republican in every presidential election but one from 1952 to 1988 and leading a national movement against taxes, California has become the crown jewel of the Democratic presidential map. Every statewide official is currently a Democrat, and the party holds wide majorities in the legislature even as Republicans have made statehouse gains in blue states like Wisconsin and Michigan under President Obama.One key factor in the shift: A political awakening among the state’s Hispanic voters, who flocked to the polls to combat an anti-immigrant campaign with parallels to GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s current run.n 1994, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson ran for re-election alongside ballot measure Proposition 187, which barred undocumented immigrants from government services. Proposition 187 passed easily and Wilson succeeded in his bid, but the long-term damage proved severe. Latino voter registration soared and the new voters who hit the polls were solidly Democratic. The trend spilled over into national politics as well: Hispanic turnout surged in 1996 and exit polls pegged President Bill Clinton’s share at 75%.MSNBC

Mr. Bush won more than 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2004, yet eight years later Mitt Romney would win only 27% of this fast-growing group—a percentage that Mr. Trump apparently thinks is far too high. Recent history shows that Hispanics are swing voters in national elections who have been driven into the arms of Democrats over the past decade because GOP rhetoric has made them feel unwanted WSJ

GOP voter support for Ted Cruz has surged in California over the past three months and the Texas Senator has now moved into a statistical tie with businessman Donald Trump for the lead in this state's Republican presidential primary Cruz is the first choice of 25% of likely GOP voters in the latest statewide while Trump is backed by 23%. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is now inthird at 13%, while support for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has fallen to 9%. Each of the otherRepublicans vying for their party's presidential nomination poll in single digits.Republican presidential The Field Poll

Donald Trump, increasingly facing pressure from GOP rival Ted Cruz, raised questions Tuesday about the Texas senator’s Canadian birth and whether it would hurt the party’s chances if he were its nominee.“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem,”LATimes

the state of many of Los Angeles County's 44,000 homeless people Tuesday: The streets were a miserable place to be as El Niño storms made their ferocious debut.People clung to steep embankments and under narrow overhangs, or zipped themselves into tents on soupy pavement. Officials were concerned that roughly 600 to 700 homeless people were still camped out Monday in dangerous areas on the Los Angeles River.

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The Field Poll http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2521.pdf

“The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage right now, but they can’t hold America hostage,Congress still needs to act. The folks in this room will not rest until Congress does.” Preisdent Obama

To deal with our impoverished neighborhoods, it isn’t enough to get rid of the guns. The public squalor of our inner cities has to be addressed: schools modernized, affordable housing built, mass transit supplied, available jobs created. Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness — the dysfunction that comes from poverty.Today’s politicians don’t want to spend political capital on guns or fiscal capital on poverty. They’d rather pay more on the back end from failing to act than risk the up-front political and economic costs of dealing with the problems. So the war on guns is lost; the war on poverty abandoned. And the hopes of millions are dashed by that failure. In the circus of the current presidential campaign, these are two fundamental challenges that ought to be at the center of our debate. Rev Jesse Jackson Chicago Suntimes

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more WBRN radio. bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

 

 

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

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Militants continue occupation of Oregon refuge, police keep low profilehttp://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/militia_continue_occupation_of.html#incart_big-photo

Black Lives Matter Organizers Labeled as "Threat Actors" by Cybersecurity Firm http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/zerofox-report-baltimore-black-lives-matter

Activist DeRay Mckesson’s Social Media Has Been Monitored by Department of Homeland Security http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/08/activist_deray_mckesson_s_social_media_has_been_monitored_by_department.html

Occupy Wall Street for the Left on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City a few blocks from Wall Street.

The 99% movement move to the 2012 presidential election and in 2016 in the form of Donald Trump  and Bernie Sanders.

On the  Right  anti-government militia members from all over the country to join the seizure of the headquarters building of the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, some 300 miles southeast of Portland.  Led by Ammon Bundy, son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a previous standoff with the government over grazing rights.

How  does Law enfocement respond to the Oregon protest nad the Black Lives Matters' protests ?

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

 

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Hail to the Washington Rednecks! http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/28/hail-to-the-washington-rednecks/

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

 

Episode  #2074

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History in Red and Blue (and Green and Purple) http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/history-in-red-and-blue-and-green-and-purple/

Times Square is hosting 1 million people celebrating New Year’s Eve Thursday night in the famous Midtown bowtie.Some 200,000 revelers first rang in the New Year at Times Square in 1904 in commemoration of The New York Times’ then-new headquarters. The newspaper’s owner, Adolph Ochs, arranged in 1907 for an illuminated 700-pound iron and wood ball ball to be lowered from the building’s flagpole after the city banned a fireworks display.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce has been warning communities of color that the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan will cause job losses and generate higher energy bills polls indicate that most African Americans actually support provisions of the Clean Power Plan. Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm. According to a Nov. 4 poll by Green for All and the Natural Resources Defense Council, 77 percent of African Americans recognize that their community suffers a greater burden from air pollution and climate change than the population at large WP

Prosecutors said "Tamir was big for his age — 5-foot-7 and 175 pounds, with a men's XL jacket and size-36 pants — and could have easily passed for someone much older," according to the Los Angeles Times. They cited "unnamed associates" of the 12-year-old who said Tamir was known to pull his toy gun out "like a robber." The language echoes statements given by the responding police officers, who said they believed the boy was much older than 12.To some social science researchers, these characterizations would not come as a surprise. Rice is black. And research published last year by the American Psychological Association found "evidence that black boys are seen as older and less innocent and that they prompt a less essential conception of childhood than do their white same-age peers." In other words, people tend to think of black boys as bigger and older than they actually are.WP

 

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The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-a0035663.pdf

Black Boys Viewed as Older, Less Innocent Than Whites, Research Findshttp://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/black-boys-older.aspx#