Terri Givens - "associate professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin" - offers "Time for a Latino Political Party?" at Politico. Among much other wrong things, she says "In Europe, minorities and special interests often form their own parties when they feel their issues are not being championed by larger parties... ...Still, there are some reasons—42 million of them, to start with—to think that a Latino party could be different. Various ethnic groups have historically wielded a great deal of influence within political parties, particularly at the local and state levels..."