When Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk campaigned in Spanish for the U.S. Senate job, he promised to help Latino families start their own businesses and combat gangs. Kirk failed to do just that when he voted against the DREAM Act last week.
Read more, from Chicago Sun-Times columnist Alejandro Escalona.
Republicans made major gains in the November elections but they have yet to win the hearts and minds of the American people, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The midterm elections – where Republicans gained 63 seats to take control of the House of Representatives and added six seats to their Senate minority – were widely seen as a rebuke to President Obama. Still, the public now trusts Obama marginally more than congressional Republicans to deal with the country’s main problems in the coming years, 43 to 38 percent. And when it comes to who has taken the stronger leadership role in Washington, it’s an even divide: 43 percent say Obama, 42 percent the GOP.
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