If you’re not already familiar with it, CandidatoUSA is a new website that covers Hispanic politics and voting issues.
The have a really interesting post today on Hispanic political involvement and the “Sleeping Giant” that is unused Hispanic voting power.
The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute released a report (pdf) projecting that the number of US Latino voters in the 2008 elections will be 20% higher than in 2004, an increase in over 1.8 million voters to a total of 9.3 million Latino voters.
Considering that just those 1.8 million new voters is about half the margin of victory President Bush had in the popular vote in the 2004 election, that is a significant number. It will be interesting to see how candidates and political parties reach out to this substantial voting bloc as the 2008 campaigns heat up.
Obviously, I’m a technology/new media guy. But is anybody else as confused by Amazon’s new e-book (the Kindle) as I am?
It’s $400 dollars to buy a platform that lets you buy books for it.
Or you can just buy books.
I don’t get it. It sure doesn’t seem like the next ipod to me. Anybody got a different take?