ELKO, Nev. – A pro-John McCain – or, more accurately, an anti-Barack Obama – bus tour stopped in town Thursday morning, urging voters in one of the states most conservative counties to be unwavering in their support for the Republican candidate. Elko residents come out to ‘Stop Obama’ The “Stop Obama Tour” kicked off Wednesday [...]
Category Archives: The Western Edge
Battle for the West: Rural Nevada Dems Come Out of Hiding
October 16, 2008 – 11:39 am
Obama supporters gather in Elko, Nev., to watch the final debate ELKO, Nev. — When Mable Kite decided to get involved in a political campaign for the first time in her life, she jumped right into the deep end. She organized her local caucus, served as an Obama precinct captain, provided room and board for [...]
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Tagged Barck Obama, Battle for the West, Democrat, Elko, John McCain, Nevada, Presidential Debates, Republican, rural voters, swing states
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Battle for the West: Dems ahead in Washoe
October 15, 2008 – 8:41 am
RENO – Heidi B. Smith, chairwoman of the Washoe County Republican party, flips through a stack of emails and phone messages she’s received about voter registration errors — people who registered as Republicans but are showing up as Democrats, misspelled names, bad addresses — when the phone rings. It’s a call that’s seemed more and [...]
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Battle for the West: Voter Roll Purges, ‘True Blue’ New Mexico
October 10, 2008 – 10:01 am
Voter Rolls Purging Not True? (AP photo) Colorado and Nevada officials responded on Thursday to Wednesday’s New York Times story alleging thousands of voters have been removed from voter rolls or blocked from registering in violation of federal law. The article attributed the illegal actions to local officials making mistakes complying with the 2002 Help [...]
Battle for the West: ACORN Raid, Debate Reviews
October 8, 2008 – 9:58 am
ACORN Office Raided in Las Vegas (AP photo) Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of a group registering voters in low income communities seeking evidence of voter registration fraud on Tuesday. Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now organizers are accused of forging signatures of names picked out of phone books and NFL players. [...]
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Tagged acorn, Barack Obama, Battle for the West, debate, get-out-the-vote, GOTV, John McCain, Michelle Malkin, voter fraud, voter registration
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Battle for the West: CO the New FL?, McCain in NM
October 7, 2008 – 12:36 pm
Colorado 2008 = Florida 2000? The Colorado Independent wonders if Colorado will take the crown as the poster child for election day dysfunction this year, pointing to potential problems with a new statewide voter database system and dealing with huge numbers of new voters who have to wade through with the longest ballot in the [...]
Battle for the West: Battleground Latinos, Debate Reviews, City Snapshots
October 6, 2008 – 3:03 pm
Battleground Latinos A cutout of Barack Obama at a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Denver last month (Getty Images) New Mexico took center stage over the weekend on a 20-minute segment — New Voters in the New West — on NOW in PBS. Reporter Maria Hinojosa calls New Mexico “the battleground of battleground states” as [...]
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Tagged acorn, Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Colorado, Elko, John McCain, Las Cruces, Latino vote, Nevada, New Mexico, Polls, Pueblo, Reno, voter registration
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Battle for the West: CA Volunteers Hit NV
October 2, 2008 – 4:42 pm
Sen. Barack Obama stumps in Reno September 30 – Getty Images Two new polls have Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. John McCain in Nevada. An InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position survey of 437 likely voters has Obama up 48 to 47 percent. A CNN/Time Magazine poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. has the Illinois senator up 51 [...]
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Tagged Barack Obama, Battle for the West, John McCain, Las Vegas, Nevada, polling, Reno, voter registration, Washoe
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Battle for the West: Polling Cell-Phones, McCain Skips NV, Michelle Obama in CO
October 1, 2008 – 10:28 am
Can You Hear Me Now? If Nevada continues to be one of the handful of pure toss-up states, why the dearth of polls in the state, asks UNLV political science professor David Damore in PolitickerNV. “Two of the primary issues associated with polling in Nevada are the sporadic nature by which the polls are conducted [...]
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Tagged Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Boulder, cell phones, Colorado, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Nevada, polling, Reno, Sarah Palin, voter registration, youth vote
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Battle for the West: Obama in NV, ‘Nays’ on Bailout in Tight Races
September 30, 2008 – 10:36 am
Obama Takes Aim at NV, McCain Cancels Reno Stop Barack Obama takes the stage Tuesday at the University of Nevada, Reno (AP) Today’s Los Angeles Times looked at the Democratic party’s surge in registrations in Nevada, with 43 percent of registered voters to the Republicans 37 percent (compared with 2004 when Republicans had the slightest [...]
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