FIU political experts will discuss the Latino vote and results of an FIU/The Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald poll at a panel discussion Monday, Oct. 15. Latinos make up the country’s largest minority and about 9 percent of the U.S. electorate.
The discussion, which starts at 10 a.m., will take place at the MARC Pavilion on Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Those unable to attend in person, may participate via Facebook, Ustream or Twitter, by using the hashtag #FIULatVote; the conversation will be streamed live on Facebook and Ustream, where journalists and viewers are welcome to post questions and comments.
The panel will be moderated by FIU political science Professor Eduardo Gamarra, who is conducting the poll.
The panel will include:
- Jose Miguel Cruz is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations. He was the director of the University Institute of Public Opinion at the University of Central America in San Salvador from 1994 to 2006, where he supervised more than 50 national public opinion polls in Central America.
- Jorge Duany is the director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology at FIU. Before coming to FIU, he served as acting dean of the College of Social Sciences and professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He previously served as director of UPR’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales.
- Kevin Evans is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His teaching and research interests focus on the presidency, Congress and political parties. He is particularly interested in inter-branch relations and presidential power.
- Jose Gabilondo is an associate professor of law at the FIU College of Law. Gabilondo joined the College of Law after working in financial market regulation at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the World Bank. He is a nationally recognized commentator in the Spanish-language media on financial and economic matters.
- Nicol C. Rae is senior associate dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and a professor of politics and international relations. Rae’s research and teaching have focused on Congress, the presidency and American political parties. He was awarded a Congressional Fellowship by the American Political Science Association, and served as a Capitol Hill aide to Congressman George P. Radanovich of California, and Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi.
- Moses Shumow is an assistant professor of journalism and broadcasting in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on the production and consumption of immigrant and Spanish-language media in South Florida and nationally, as well as trends in conglomeration, news content, and political/election coverage among leading national Spanish-language media outlets.
The event is free and open to all journalists as well as the public. To RSVP, please click here. Full results will be made available on the morning of the event to those who RSVP.
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The Latino vote or view appears to most of the U.S. as a very limited and myopic one.
It’s the Johnny-one-note issue of so-called immigration, which isn’t really about immigration at all, it;s about promoting more third-world dumping on the U.S.
Liberals seem to like it, but most Americans, at least in the informal poll I’ve been conducting, don’t.
The Latinos will continue to do what they do best, living in the past, treating U.S. history, identity, society, and language with careless and callous disregard, and setting themselves apart from mainstream, American society. And let’s not forget maintaining third-world micrcosms such as Hialeah and SW Miami-Dade, and stumping for more preferential treatment for the rest of their constituency. In essence, all the things the Dutch, the Germans, the Italians, the Polish, the Swedes, etc. didn’t do.
Additionally, the rest of the U.S. is not exactly Dade County, even the rest of Florida for that matter. For instance, I’m here from Vero Beach, Fl.; it’s a lot more of an American community than Miami is. The entire Treasure Coast, and Space Coast are as well. Try Witchita, Kansas.
Most people might agree, if you want to be in this country, act like an American; be more concerned with the American vote than the Latino one; be more concerned with Boston than you are with Bogota, unless that’s Bogota, New Jersey. But they pronounce it differently!
Isn’t goverment in the U.S. interesting; no coups’, no machetes, no dictators. Americans just breath-in the information, like breathing-in air, and then make decisions, and vote choices. A lot of Americans enjoy that.
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The people you’re talking about are not Latinos at all. They’re Ibero-Indians with no Latin culture and for the majority of the posters not to know is lamentable at least.