Election 2008: Waking Nevada’s “Sleeping Giant”
Public News Service: PLAN organizers Beverly Rodriguez and Rosa Molina say that Hispanics are a sought-after voting bloc in the 2008 election.
Las Vegas, NV – They have been called the Silver State’s Sleeping Giant: the more than 190,000 eligible registered Hispanic voters in Nevada. Politicians of every political stripe are working to win them over in the final hours before the Nov. 4 election.
Nevada is ranked number seven in the nation in the number of eligible Hispanic voters, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Beverly Rodriguez, a canvasser with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), has been focusing her efforts on one congressional district in Las Vegas. She says the goal of the non-partisan effort is to get 5,000 Latinos to the polls. … READ THE FULL STORY HERE.
