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Campaign '08
La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language publication in the US , has endorsed both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, choosing both presidential candidates largely on the basis of their immigrant-friendly positions. According to Reuters, the 124,000-circulation newspaper’s endorsement focused almost entirely on the issue of immigration, considered a chief concern among Latinos.
La Opinion’s editors said Hillary Clinton would make "an excellent president" but were unhappy with the New York senator’s refusal to get behind driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. "We were disappointed in her calculated decision opposing driver’s licenses for the undocumented, which contrasts markedly from the forceful argument in support made by Obama," the paper said.
With McCain, the paper applauded the Arizona senator’s role as one of the authors of last year’s stalled immigration bill that would have granted a path to citizenship to the approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants in the US .
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