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Latino Power Resurrection
Persuasive Rhetoric in Barack Obama’s Immigration Speech: Pre- and Post-Electoral Strategies
The emerging power of the Latino community has become a recurring reflection for most analyses of the United States of America over the last two decades. However, their presence on the media usually focuses on two factors: the increasing immigration of undocumented workers, mostly from Mexico, and their decisive condition as voters due to their presence in the so-called “swing” States, which provides specific power to the Hispanic population to choose the President, especially when they are as disputed as the 2012 general elections.
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