The model, says Jeronimo Cortina at the University of Houston, should be George W. Bush, who won around 40% Latino support in 2004 because "he knew how to eat the tamale".A knottier issue is that Latinos tend to believe in an activist government.
It is sometimes said that the executive has a "too difficult" file in which knotty issues are crammed not just the regulation of parades but the promotion of mixed Catholic-Protestant schools, for example.
To understand how all of these knotty issues are tied together, it's important to consider the concept of corporate personhood.
Lots of claims are being made, but not surprisingly, some of the knottier issues are being conveniently swept under the rug.
The other key issue is that the knotty, politically explosive issues of relaxed ownership concentration rules have not been advanced.
That issue is one of many knotty questions that remain to be resolved in court.
After clashes with entrenched interest groups over education, firehouse closings and other knotty issues, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to bring his business-minded, results-based approach to an especially challenging constituency: the elderly.
Those are the kinds of knotty issues that are explored in the early episodes of "War of the Damned".
Some big obstacles must still be overcome, but the sense of urgency and the pragmatic flexibility (particularly on some knotty technical issues) being shown by Iran's negotiators, led by its foreign minister, Javad Zarif (pictured above), have boosted hopes.
As I see it, Undercover's great potential – brilliant cast, huge angry knotty issues – has been fatally undermined by implausibilities.
