Tag Archives: New Mexico

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 the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 that didn’t [...]

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Quick Hit: Latino Voters Not a “Monolithic Subgroup”

October 19, 2008 – 2:21 pm

Check out this map from The New Republic, which examines the nuance of the Latino vote in several swing states.
“Latinos cannot be treated as a monolithic subgroup,” says Nate Silver. Beyond the obvious fact that Cubans in Florida are very different from Mexicans in Nevada, Silver points out that, although New Mexico is more [...]

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Battle for the West: Voter Roll Purges, ‘True Blue’ New Mexico

October 10, 2008 – 10:01 am

Voter Rolls Purging Not True?

(AP photo)
Colorado and Nevada officials responded on Thursday to Wednesday’s New York Times story alleging thousands of voters have been removed from voter rolls or blocked from registering in violation of federal law. The article attributed the illegal actions to local officials making mistakes complying with the 2002 Help America Vote [...]

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

October 7, 2008 – 12:36 pm

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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Battle for the West: Battleground Latinos, Debate Reviews, City Snapshots

October 6, 2008 – 3:03 pm

Battleground Latinos

A cutout of Barack Obama at a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Denver last month (Getty Images)

New Mexico took center stage over the weekend on a 20-minute segment — New Voters in the New West — on NOW in PBS. Reporter Maria Hinojosa calls New Mexico “the battleground of battleground states” as she follows [...]

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Battle for the West: Obama in NV, ‘Nays’ on Bailout in Tight Races

September 30, 2008 – 10:36 am

Obama Takes Aim at NV, McCain Cancels Reno Stop

Barack Obama takes the stage Tuesday at the University of Nevada, Reno (AP)
Today’s Los Angeles Times looked at the Democratic party’s surge in registrations in Nevada, with 43 percent of registered voters to the Republicans 37 percent (compared with 2004 when Republicans had the slightest of edges [...]

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Battle for the West: CO Senate Debate, GOP Official Fired, Preaching Politics

September 29, 2008 – 2:07 pm

Colorado Senate Candidates Square Off

The race to fill the seat of retiring Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard (R) received national attention Sunday as Rep. Mark Udall (D) and former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R) took part in the first of a series of senate debates on Meet the Press (transcript). The 17-minute mini-debate focused primarily on the [...]

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Battle for the West: NM Foot in Mouth

September 26, 2008 – 2:45 pm

Bernalillo GOP chair: ‘Hispanics won’t vote for a black president’
The chairman of the Bernalillo County Republican Party resigned Thursday following comments reported on a BBC blog last week that most observers said fell somewhere between insensitive and poorly articulated to outright racist. The money shot: “Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won’t vote for a [...]

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