Unvision debate coming soon

Here's a post in the Florida Politics blog reminding us how the Republicans are doing their best to shoo away the Latino vote. It quotes from an editorial in the Tampa Tribune remarking how the Republican presidential aspirants all gave up on the Univision debate in Spanish, while the Democrats are booking their tickets to Miami for their debate next Sunday.

And do you have your ticket to the debate? There's a lottery that you can register for at the local party website, www.miamidadedemocrats.com.

Republicans not reporting for Univision Spanish debate

They used to say they were interested in the Hispanic/Latino vote. Now they can’t be bothered. They must see our wave a-rising. What’s this about? The Univision debate that was to let the presidential candidates appeal to a Spanish-speaking TV audience will not have a Republican forum. The Democratic candidates will all be there for their Sept. 9 debate at the University of Miami, but the Republican event scheduled for Sept. 16 has been called off. Only John McCain had confirmed to attend.

This Miami Herald report mentions our local effort, as well as the national drive run through NDN to build a national Hispanic strategy to win elections.

I say chalk all this up to a victory of our think tanks over their think tanks (if they’re still thinking in this stage of collapse).

Debates in Spanish coming

Here’s an interesting wrinkle. Presidential debates in Spanish. The link.

Why do I hear Jeb Bush’s heavy footsteps?

No, I don’t mean that they’d all have to learn Spanish – it would be done with simultaneous translation.

A question occurs: How has the Spanish-speaking population been informed about these debates? Are they broadcast on the Spanish channels with voice-over translation?

This also has played big on DailyKos, which approves. The link.

I guess if we have a debate every week, financed by the networks, we could cancel all those silly negative campaign commercials.

Update: Bill Richardson has accepted the invitation.

The gadfly lets loose.

It's not really necessary to watch those debates. Hold off, and after a while the best parts of it will fall into your lap.

YouTube shows how Mike Gravel did.

Thanks to Carlos Augusto Cabrera for passing this along.