OBAMA VS MCCAIN

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See for yourself where the two candidates for president stand on the 50-year-old Cuban embargo, immigration reform and outreach to Hispanic voters

What do George Lopez, Lila Downs, Paulina Rubio, Alejandro Sanz and John Leguizamo have in common? They just got in on U.S. Presidential politics...

...for Obama.

A few weeks ago, they released this short video, "Podemos con Obama," (meaning "we can with Obama" in English) as a way to motivate Spanish-speaking Latinos to vote for Barack Obama, Democratic presidential nominee.

Before that, another group put together this video, "Viva Obama," in Mexican corrido style.

But that's just marketing, right? Where does Obama really stand on immigration reform and on the 50-year-old Cuban embargo: two of the most important policies to segments of the Latino voting public this year. And what about John McCain?

Here's a story about McCain  on CNN that lays out just how critical the Latino vote will be for McCain in the 2008 election, and how his tone against immigrants has softened now that he's won the Republican nomination.

Here's a McCain interview with Fox News on TV about his immigration stance.

And, here's a video created by McCain's campaign with Spanish subtitles designed to reach out to Latino voters.

Not to be outdone, Obama has nearly as liberal a stance on immigration as McCain, calling for humane treatment and a virtual path to legalization for many undocumented immigrants in this video from a campaign speech on the subject.

Lastly, here's Obama lashing back at McCain on CNN and explaining why, as president, he would loosen the U.S. embargo against Cuba, something McCain has been more inflexible on.