MySpace, the country’s most trafficked website, and MTV, the leading global youth brand, teamed up with ImpreMedia as their Hispanic media partner for the 2007 series of Presidential Candidate Dialogues. ImpreMedia’s online channel, LaVibra.com, which targets hip urban Hispanics between the ages 18-34 years, will host the Spanish translated dialogues in streaming video.

MySpace was used very effectively by high school students and other young Latinos to organize last year’s demonstrations in LA and other parts of the country which brought together hundreds of thousands of people to protest against anti-inmigration policies.

The Presidential Candidate Dialogues will include all the major Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates. All the dialogues will be held in college campuses, webcast live on MySpace, MTV.com, and in Spanish translation on Lavibra.com.

The first Presidential Candidate Dialogue featuring John Edwards took place on September 27 at the University of New Hampshire campus.

Even though Latino voting registration has grown by nearly 50% in the last 10 years, Latinos tend to be less involved in the political process and vote less.

A big part of the problem is that working class Latinos find it very difficult to miss work even if it is only for a couple of hours because they usually work long hours in jobs that offer low hourly salaries and no benefits.

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