ABC is canceling Ugly Betty and this season, number 4, is going to be the last season.

Read more at Vivir Latino

The news that the White House had brought back David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign manager, and the one person largely credited for getting Obama the presidency, begs the question  what was he going to do to help Obama regain political traction. One thing’s for sure; with or without David, Democrats can’t use the tactics of 2008 to reach out to Latino voters in 2010.

Read more at Latina Lista

David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama poses in his Chicago campaign headquarters, Thursday, May 10, 2007. The 2008 presidential race is notable for the presence of a woman and a black among the top Democratic candidates. But progress is much slower when it comes to diversifying the ranks of top decision-makers within the various campaigns. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

The news that the White House had brought back David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign manager, and the one person largely credited for getting Obama the presidency, begs the question  what was he going to do to help Obama regain political traction. One thing’s for sure; with or without David, Democrats can’t use the tactics of 2008 to reach out to Latino voters in 2010.

Read more at Latina Lista

David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama poses in his Chicago campaign headquarters, Thursday, May 10, 2007. The 2008 presidential race is notable for the presence of a woman and a black among the top Democratic candidates. But progress is much slower when it comes to diversifying the ranks of top decision-makers within the various campaigns. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

The Latino community will be waiting Wednesday night when Obama addresses a joint session of Congress, above all because economic recovery and immigration reform continue to be unkept promises.

Read more at The Latin American Herald Tribune

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer in a recent speech compared people whose children receive free and reduced-price school lunches to stray animals that are fed handouts.

Please read more at Southern Political Report

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer in a recent speech compared people whose children receive free and reduced-price school lunches to stray animals that are fed handouts.

Please read more at Southern Political Report

President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Wednesday will be a tough sell for millions of Americans struggling under the weight of an economic recession, political analysts said.

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President Obama needs to reassure the nation and members of his own party with his speech, analysts said.

With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has thrust politics back to the robber-baron era of the 19th century. Disingenuously waving the flag of the First Amendment, the court’s conservative majority has paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections and intimidate elected officials into doing their bidding. Read the rest of this entry at The New York Times

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E-mail us at volunteer@votolatino.org for more details about opportunities in your area.

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Voto Latino is proud to be a member of Vote Again 2010, a group of 30 youth-serving organizations and media partners coming together to mobilize the youth vote on November 2nd. Vote Again 2010 partners include Rock the Vote, Campus Progress, Huffpost College, The Young Turks, The Media Consortium, The League of Young Voters, Change.org, and Global Grind among others.

We’re glad to be in such great company! This is our kind of work, at the intersection of pop culture and politics.

Our good friends at Headcount, a music-based civic engagement group, are also part of Vote Again 2010. (Voto Latino is actually partnering with Headcount to do voter registration at select concerts this summer.)

Check out Headcount’s below video featuring our buddies Ozomatli and the great Ben Harper, Theivery Corporation (below) and others as they talk about why it’s important to vote again in 2010.
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President Obama will give his first State of the Union address next Wednesday, January 27, at 9:00PM Eastern.

Comment below on the one topic you’d like the President to discuss and earn the chance to win a new Be Counted t-shirt! One winner will be chosen randomly.

There was that horrible earthquake that devastated Haiti. Last night, Massachusetts and the United States experienced a political earthquake that could be as in many ways as profound with the election of Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley to the U.S. Senate. And today is the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Barack Obama, which means that the Massachusetts debacle will be magnified by media assessments of the President’s first year.

Read the rest at New America Media.