November 23, 2008 – 12:09 pm
Latino population distribution in 2000. The population has grown since then. (Wikipedia image) The decline in Latino support for Republican candidates has some in the party worried. With demographic trends showing an increasingly diverse country, any party that fails to appeal to minorities is going to have trouble winning elections. For the GOP, Florida is [...]
November 20, 2008 – 3:07 pm
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 [...]
November 13, 2008 – 3:09 pm
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 [...]
November 12, 2008 – 5:22 pm
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 [...]
November 11, 2008 – 11:58 am
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 [...]
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Posted in The Western Edge
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Clark County, Democrats, Elko, John McCain, Las Vegas, Republicans, rural communities, rural voters, Washoe
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November 6, 2008 – 4:02 pm
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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Posted in The Western Edge
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Also tagged Battle for the West, Colorado, Denver, election day, exit polling, Las Vegas, Latino voters, Latinos, New Mexico, Washoe, youth vote
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November 5, 2008 – 9:35 am
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November 4, 2008 – 9:11 pm
The networks and newspapers have called the election for Sen. Barack Obama, who won a historic victory with more than 300 electoral votes. The immigrant vote might have played a role in netting him a handful of decisive states. The race was close in Virginia, and large Latino populations were leaning toward Obama in Nevada, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]