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I wrote this article on Sunday without the knowledge of who will have won the election. Regardless of who wins (and if there is a clear “winner” at all), there will certainly have been one of the largest voter turnouts of the last 20 years and I think that this fact is a direct result of the Web.

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) hailed two historic milestones for the Latino community coming out of the 2004 election. First, an unprecedented number of Latinos went to the voting booth on Tuesday. At least seven million Latinos and perhaps as many as 9.6 million turned out to vote, representing a dramatic increase from the 2000 presidential election. Second, for the first time ever, there will be two Latinos in the United States Senate, ending a nearly 30-year-old drought for Hispanic representation in that body.

Don’t criticize if you do not vote when you have the right to do so. Having the right and not voting is a real shame. When millions of immigrants in the USA would be honored to have that right and cannot. Don’t throw away you vote by not voting. HispanicAd.com

Just days before the election, the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) released the results of their “Latino Professional Pulse – October 2004,” a national survey of 475 Latino professionals regarding their work life, economic sentiment, political leanings, and investments.

A poll conducted by comScore Networks, Inc. has determined that President George W. Bush holds a narrow 1.7% lead among women voters nationwide. Yet Senator John Kerry holds a slim lead in two of three key battleground states. Kerry leads among women voters in Florida (50.0% to 45.5%) and Pennsylvania (50.0% to 44.0%), while the race is a dead heat in Ohio (47.1% to 47.1%).

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore the life of legendary Cuban-born singer Celia Cruz (1924 – 2003) and her impressive career with “Azucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz,” a new exhibition slated to open in May 2005.

Spanish has taken a clear lead over French as the language Americans are most likely to study in school, according to a recent study by Opinion Research Corporation.

At the Omni Colonnade Hotel, with the microphones set, the cameras rolling and an audience of over fifty people, including many Hispanic Media Journalists, waiting at the set of the Political Forum Tuesday night, the missing components were the two Political Parties’ representatives including the invited vice presidential candidates.

Now http://www.aguacate.org offers more California avocado nutrition tips and recipe information for the Hispanic community. The California Avocado Commission has relaunched the “En Español” section of the California avocado web site with nutrition advice, scientific research and more innovative recipes.

Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight is an epic that sweeps across modern US-Cuban history as it intertwines riveting personal stories that are as steeped in romance, tragedy and drama as the great ballets.

CNN Presents explores the lives of four families on the front lines in the growing battle over illegal immigration in America. In “Immigrant Nation, Divided Country,” CNN’s Maria Hinojosa tracks the illegal immigration debate from a nearly deserted village in Mexico to the booming suburbs of Atlanta and the rural hamlets of North Georgia.

comScore Networks released the results of a study examining the factors influencing the voting plans of American women in the upcoming presidential election. The study integrates a full range of demographic, attitudinal and lifestyle information to focus on the factors influencing the attitudes, intentions and decisions of closely followed segments, such single women and “security moms.”

Intel Corporation is launching a new program titled “Intel Winning Technology” for Houston Latinos that responds to concerns about the role of technology in their lives.