How will the recent minority majority effect Texas?

I know the targeted audience in which this article Battle for Texas Latino vote challenges conventional wisdom is referring to, this year I have been bombarded with information regarding all candidates whether I'm walking around campus or at work. As a registered Latina voter in Texas I plan on voting in my first presidential election, before this year I never even paid attention in the primaries and have always been fairly split on the whole Republicans versus Democrats. I've always been under the impression that in such a large state/country one vote can't really count for all that much, but this article gives not only Latinos but everyone it refers to a reason to believe that their vote counts. With new groups of voters to appeal to in a big state such as Texas this election is bound to be an interesting one, Texas' demographics have been changing in increasing numbers in the last several years, and the youth of today seem to be much more interested and active when it comes to politics. With Texas as a newly minority majority state, because of natural birth rates and immigration, the large numbers of different races will play a very active role in this election. Throughout the article the author Juan Castillo who has a typically Hispanic last name (though I would hate to make an automatic assumption that he is), did a good job at remaining unbiased by not particularly showing favoritism toward one ethnicity, nor did he discriminate between one candidate or the other. This article refers to an "antipathy" that they claim exists specifically between blacks and Latinos they say that this dislike may be a cause for Latinos not to vote for Obama, I believe this is an incorrect accusation. Maybe it's a generational thing but this "antipathy" is something that I have never know to exist, at least not anymore than the incorrigible battle of men against women which would affect Hillary, or the stereotypical racism between African Americans and Caucasians. This article is jumping to some conclusions about Clinton's lead with certain voters and the changing of the tides for Obama; the primaries haven't even arrived yet, only time will tell.

Legislature passes new animal bills

Laws have recently been instated to protect animals and their victims, by making the pet's owners more liable for attacks and making the punishments harsher. Also, stray animals will now be protected like the domesticated pets in animal cruelty cases. It's about time that justice is finally being delivered to the sick people that train animals to deliberately hurt/kill other innocents, or who starve and torture their pets. Man is paying his bestfriend back for years of companionship. It had previously been that if you were busted watching a dog fight in which dogs brutally tear each other to death you'd get a ticket for a class C misdemeanor, which is the equivalent of a speeding ticket, now it is a much more serious class A misdemeanor. This article "Legislature passes several animal bills" was interesting because it is surprising to find out that animals can affect the theme of a legislative session and get several bills passed.