Tag Archives: New Mexico

GOP Has “a Very, Very Serious Problem”

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 [...]

California Gay Marriage Protests Cross State Lines

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 [...]

A Conservative Disputes Latino Voters’ Influence, But Latino Groups Have Reason to Celebrate

At The National Review, Mark Krikorian pooh-poohs the idea the idea that the Latino vote made a difference for Obama. While the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials says that between 9.6 million and 11 million Latinos voted in the election, an increase of at least 2 million over 2004, Krikorian notes that [...]

Western State GOP Soul-Searching

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 [...]

Battle for the West: Post-election Roundup

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 [...]

Battle for the West: Front Page News

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Obama Wins in Electoral Vote Landslide

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, [...]

Truth Behind A Swing State Newspaper Endorsement

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 [...]

Battle for the West: Latinos Are the Key to Victory

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 [...]

Battle for the West: Numbers Game

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 [...]