I originally said last week that I would focus my next blog on specifically the republican party and John McCain, Arizona's senator who is one of the main front runners in the 2008 Presidential Election. I will focus this somewhat on McCain, but also on Barack Obama, who could be going head-to-head with McCain as the leading democrat in the election.
On Saturday, both McCain and Obama received an endorsement from www.laopinion.com La Opinion, a Spanish newspaper out of Los Angeles that claims to have the biggest Hispanic readership in the United States at a daily readership of over a half a million people.
The newspaper is essentially all about the United States, but is written in Spanish for Hispanics to understand. Besides the obvious question (should newspapers be endorsing presidential candidates?), it's interesting that the paper would choose to endorse candidates from both parties.
Nevertheless, Obama and McCain both received endorsements. The paper cites Obama's "work on immigration legislation in the Illinois and U.S. senates, his commitment to reform immigration in his first year of office, and his support for drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants." This is a far cry so far from Hillary Clinton's stance, which I talked about last week, as well as from George W. Bush, who essentially believes illegal immigrants don't belong in the U.S. anyway.
As far as McCain goes, the paper, after translation, cited his "work on comprehensive immigration reform" and called him "the voice of reason and common sense."
With Super Tuesday just being a day away, part of the way the voting goes in the western states like Arizona and California may be decided by candidates' views on immigration reform. While it may be clear that Mexican immigrants may not even have a vote in tomorrow's primary, the ones that do may be swayed by such a strong endorsement from a Spanish-language editorial newspaper.
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