Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

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Battle for the West: Obama’s Last Stops

November 1st, 2008 · No Comments

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

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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. Of [...]

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Battle for the West: Numbers Game

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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 minutes before it [...]

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Battle for the West: Early Voting Kicks Off in Nevada

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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.
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Battle for the West: CO the New FL?, McCain in NM

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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 country.
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