The Republican primary for the Second Congressional District in Texas is down to six candidates:  Former state District Judge Ted Poe, Andrew Bolton, George Fastuca, Mark Henry, Clint Moore, and John Nickell.  All support easing the nation’s immigration policies.

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Garden Grove, California Councilman Van Tran won Tuesday’s Sixty-Eighth State Assembly District Republican primary.  If he wins, he will become the highest-ranking elected Vietnamese American in the country and the first in state office.  Tran came to the US with his parents in 1975 when he was 10 years old.

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In an effort to attract Latino voters, both the Republican and Democratic parties have launched Spanish-language advertising campaigns.  It is estimated that about 14 million Latinos could vote in the election this year.

The Democratic Party is seen as friends of the Latino community in the party’s commercials.  Another ad run by the Democrats attacks Bush’s dedication to education, pointing out how the Bush administration has fallen short on its commitments outlined as part of the No Child Left Behind Act.  The Bush campaign recreated its current English-speaking ad that depicts images of the September 11 attacks.  The ad emphasizes that the president has helped improve the economy.