Unpacking the Latino Vote, and Susan Orlean on the Queen of Tigers
In the lead-up to this year\u2019s midterm elections, many pundits expected Republicans to make significant gains among Latino voters, further eroding a base of support that Democrats have arguably taken for granted for decades. \u201cWhat happened instead, as you know, is a more complicated story,\u201d the contributing writer Stephania Taladrid says, one that both parties will be examining closely as 2024 approaches. Taladrid speaks with two political consultants, Chuck Rocha and Mike Madrid, to unpack the results. Rocha and Madrid co-host \u201cThe Latino Vote\u201d podcast. Rocha, a Democrat, was a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders and Madrid, a Republican, was a founding member of the Lincoln Project.\xa0\nAnd Susan Orlean reads from one of her Afterword columns, about the long and fecund life of a tiger mother. \u201cUnlike most tiger mothers,\u201d she writes, \u201cCollarwali was, in fact, a tiger.\u201d