Melissa Del Bosque

May 3, 2011 - By Melissa del Bosque,The Texas Observer For at least a decade, Texas Democrats have waited for the state's emerging Latino majority to boost them back to power. Hispanics are now 38 percent of Texas' population and growing. While historically the state's Hispanic voter turnout has been dismal--Latinos comprised between 16 and 18 percent of the vote in recent elections--most everyone in Texas politics believed it was just a matter of time before those turnout numbers increased. And

May 28, 2010 - By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer