Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her supporters may be looking ahead to 2012, but in western states that swung from red to blue, Republicans are eyeing 2010.
A top target for the GOP will be Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who was re-elected Senate majority leader earlier this week. It’s good to be the king, except for [...]

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Gay marriage supporters in Denver protest the passing of California’s Proposition 8 which defines marriage in the Golden State as between one man and one woman (Denver Post)
The Colorado Independent suggests Focus on the Family’s financial support of California’s Proposition 8 was a contributing factor to recently announced layoffs at the Colorado Springs-based ministry. Focus [...]

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Opponents of Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in California, protest in the shadow of Los Angeles City Hall last weekend (Getty Images)
On November 4, voters in three states — Arizona, California, and Florida — amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage. But it’s California’s Proposition 8 that is drawing the strongest response from the [...]

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As the once-dominant Republicans in Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico take a break from licking their week-old wounds, they’re beginning to strategize whether to march left or right in their bid to reclaim lost power.
Republicans who believe the country is swinging left think the party needs to steer away from cultural wedge issues while at [...]

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Republican support in rural communities remains strong as rural voters’ influence statewide is declining
Once upon a time — say, way back in 2004 — overwhelming Republican Party support in rural Nevada offset the Democratic advantage in densely-populated Clark County. Swing county Washoe, Nevada’s second most populous, often determined who won statewide campaigns. John Kerry won [...]

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In the end, Barack Obama didn’t need the 19 electoral votes represented by Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, three states won by George W. Bush in 2004, to make it to the White House. But he won all three, two with double-digit margins. Early analysis of the blue shift in western states credits a range [...]

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Anti-abortion activists rally against Sen. Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in August (Getty Images)
Salon’s Mike Madden visited the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs on Sunday and found the political energy muted. The evangelical Christians he spoke with were lukewarm on McCain (though excited about Sarah Palin) and appeared to be bracing for [...]

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New Mexico’s largest newspaper the Albuquerque Journal became one of the last papers to endorse a presidential candidate this year, announcing its support for Republican Sen. John McCain on Sunday placing it among the minority of newspaper endorsements nationwide, according to Editor & Publisher. As of today, 273 papers have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama and [...]

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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 Nevada and [...]

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