Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

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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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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Back from a week of reporting in Nevada. Below, are time-lapse videos* of my long drives.
Reno to Elko

From the Siena Hotel Spa Casino in Reno to the Red Lion Hotel & Casino in Elko.
Distance: 291 miles
Time: 3 hours, 43 mins
Images shot: 1,084
Elko to Las Vegas after the jump

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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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Sen. Barack Obama stumps in Reno September 30 - Getty Images
Two new polls have Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. John McCain in Nevada. An InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position survey of 437 likely voters has Obama up 48 to 47 percent. A CNN/Time Magazine poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. has the Illinois senator up 51 [...]

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Can You Hear Me Now?

If Nevada continues to be one of the handful of pure toss-up states, why the dearth of polls in the state, asks UNLV political science professor David Damore in PolitickerNV. “Two of the primary issues associated with polling in Nevada are the sporadic nature by which the polls are conducted and [...]

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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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