Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

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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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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The presidential campaigns and the press have focused a good deal of energy on Latino voters, especially in western states where they could pay a pivotal role. But what about our second largest group of immigrants?
Asians make up 5 percent of the United States. While the largest Asian populations are in the solid Democratic [...]

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Nevada Feeling Blue?
Sen. John McCain has held slim, within-the-margin-of-error edges in Nevada polls since the GOP convention. But Jon Ralston writes today in the Las Vegas Sun that “despite the history and some of the intangibles… [Nevada] is starting to lean to Obama, if ever so slightly.” Ignoring the (statistically meaningless) polls, the numbers game [...]

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What’s a kid to do when asked to wear a patriotic red, white, and blue t-shirt to school? If you’re Aurora, Colorado fifth grader Daxx Dalton, you naturally decide to don your homemade “Obama [is] a terrorist’s best friend” shirt, of course, and promptly get suspended. The boy’s father, Dann Dalton, a self-described “proud conservative” [...]

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Asian Americans make up the smallest racial group in the country, comprising about 5 percent (14.4 million) of the population. Yet they are the fastest growing sector, rising by 3 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With continuing immigration from Asia–especially China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Korea–and [...]

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