On the Media Matrix and the Rubio "Glitch"

Media attention is like a spotlight. It illuminates the present with a blinding light and then proceeds to view both past and future in the reflected glow of the current moment. Marco Rubio’s campaign fortunes are a particularly dramatic example of the reinterpretation of electoral reality based on the changing vicissitudes of the right now. Last week, based on a third place finish in the Iowa caucus, Rubio was seen as a world-beater, capable of uniting the anti-Trump, anti-Cruz, majority of the Republican Party. Today, after a fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, Rubio is all but written off as a dead man running. The moment that the commentators have seized on to explain the turn-about is Rubio’s performance in the last GOP debate, specifically the hilariously nicknamed Rubio “glitch” ... Here is my take:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2016/02/11/opinion-marco-rubio-could-shine-again-everybody-loves-comeback-kid/

Ted Cruz, Reluctant Latino, Makes Latino History. But, Where are the Democrats?

By beating Donald Trump and winning the Iowa caucus, Texas Senator Ted Cruz has made history. He became the first US Hispanic to win a major party caucus or primary that was not their own home state. The great irony is that Cruz's milestone, and Cruz is not the only rising Latino political star within the Republican party, comes at a time when the Latino electorate has increasingly thrown it's support to the Democratic party, which has not produced a Latino political figure of national importance in a generation.

Here is my piece: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2016/02/02/opinion-ted-cruz-reluctant-latino-trailblazer/