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Quick Hit: Slate Checks Out Purple Virginia

November 3, 2008 – 6:17 pm

News 21 readers are by now familiar with the purpling of Virginia, a state that was long part of the solid conservative south, but where Barack Obama is now slightly ahead of John McCain. Some of this shift has to do with Asian and Latino immigrants. Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick takes a look: [T]here are more [...]

By Amy Crawford | Posted in Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears | Also tagged Asian vote, Columbia, Immigration, John McCain, Latino vote, virginia | Comments

Battle for the West: Obama’s Last Stops

November 1, 2008 – 11:39 am

Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Southern Nevada for the second weekend in a row (Getty Images) “You don’t need to boo. You just need to vote,” Sen. Barack Obama told his supporters who booed when he mentioned his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, this morning at a campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada. Early voting in [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged Battle for the West, Colorado, early voting, exit polling, Henderson, John McCain, Nevada | Comments

Battle for the West: Obama Heads West For Final Push; Colorado Voter Purge Lawsuit Settled

October 30, 2008 – 3:19 pm

Obama Looks To Cement Lead In Polls With Final Visit West In the latest AP-GfK poll released Wednesday, Obama leads Sen. John McCain 50 to 41 percent in Colorado and 52 to 40 percent in Nevada. Looking at the complete data set, the Obama campaign’s push to turn out early voters appears to be working. [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged Arizona, Battle for the West, Colorado, early voting, John McCain, Nevada, polling, Polls, Rolling Stone, voter suppression | Comments

Battle for the West: Latinos Are the Key to Victory

October 29, 2008 – 9:55 am

A study published earlier this month by the William C. Velasquez Institute looked at statewide polling data and determined that if the election were held today, “Latino voters would provide the margin of victory for democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.” Swearing in at a Denver naturalization ceremony this summer [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears, The Western Edge | Also tagged Arizona, Battle for the West, citizenship, Colorado, John McCain, Latino voters, naturalization, Nevada, New Mexico | Comments

Battle for the West: Numbers Game

October 27, 2008 – 11:33 am

Sen. Barack Obama and 100,000 of his closest friends in Denver on Sunday (Reuters) Colorado “well over 100,000“: record-breaking number of supporters who came out to hear Barack Obama speak at the foot of the capitol in Denver on Sunday 2.5 miles: length of the line to get into an Obama rally in Fort Collins [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged Battle for the West, Colorado, Denver, early voting, John McCain, Las Vegas, Nevada, New Mexico, Reno, Sarah Palin, voter registration | Comments

Battle for the West: GOP Out of CO Senate Race, Swing State Nuisance, Busy Weekend in the West

October 24, 2008 – 10:44 am

National GOP Pulls Out of Colorado Senate Race The National Republican Senatorial Committee confirmed today it was pulling it’s support from the Colorado race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Wayne Allard. Rumors of the pullout began circulating last week, but subsided after NRSC chairman Sen. John Ensign said, “We’re going to stay there up until [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged Battle for the West, Bob Schaffer, Colorado, eary voting, John McCain, Las Vegas, Mark Udall, Mitt Romney, Nevada, New Mexico, Reno, Ron Paul | Comments

Battle for the West: Obama A ‘Muslim Socialist’

October 23, 2008 – 12:09 pm

What is it with local GOP officials in New Mexico? Last month, Bernalillo Couty Republican Party chairman Fernando C De Baca was forced to resign after saying “Hispanics consider themselves above blacks” and wouldn’t vote for a black presidential candidate and today the chairwoman of a Republican women’s group is in hot water after calling [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged Battle for the West, John McCain, New Mexico, Tom Udall, voter registration | Comments

Battle for the West: McCain Still Fights for CO, Endorsement Tallies

October 22, 2008 – 10:22 am

Sen. John McCain at a campaign rally in Colorado earlier this month (Getty Images) John McCain Fights For Colorado McCain operatives say rumors of their candidate’s departure from the Centennial State are greatly exaggerated. CNN’s John King reported on Monday that GOP strategists were massaging the math looking for a path to the White House [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged advertising, Battle for the West, Colorado, endorsements, John McCain, Nevada, New Mexico, newspapers, Sarah Palin | Comments

Battle for the West: Early Voting Kicks Off in Nevada

October 20, 2008 – 12:30 pm

Obama supporters rally on the first day of early voting in Nevada LAS VEGAS, Nev. — In the shadow of a statue honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., members of the majority African-American West Las Vegas community staged a march to the polls and rally Saturday morning, the first day of early voting in the state. [...]

By rjrivera | Posted in The Western Edge | Also tagged Battle for the West, Clark County, Democrat, early voting, John McCain, Nevada, Republican | Comments

Battle for the West: ‘Stop Obama’ Tour Hits Henderson, Obama the ‘Trojan Horse’?

October 17, 2008 – 2:16 pm

HENDERSON, Nev. — The Our Country Deserves Better PAC‘s “Stop Obama Tour” made its last Nevada stop in a Republican enclave in Democratic-majority Clark County Friday morning, hitting much of the same notes made in previous stops: Barack Obama is an inexperienced candidate who will raise taxes while John McCain is a loyal public servant [...]