GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin discussed a guest worker program with apple farmers in Pennsylvania on Friday. It was the first time she mentioned immigration at a campaign stop. Palin touted John McCain’s support of comprehensive immigration reform.
The Feds are charging the former CEO of Agriprocessors, the company raided by ICE in one of [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: · Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Colorado, Denver, early voting, John McCain, Las Vegas, Nevada, New Mexico, Reno, Sarah Palin, voter registration
When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was first selected as John McCain’s running mate, the News 21 blog wondered about her stance on immigration. With very few immigrants in Alaska, it seemed she had never had the occasion to consider the issue.
Now, thanks to the Spanish-language channel Univision, we know that Palin’s immigration stance adheres [...]
Tags: · Columbia, Immigration, John McCain, Latino voters, Sarah Palin, Univision
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 [...]
Tags: · advertising, Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Colorado, endorsements, John McCain, Nevada, New Mexico, newspapers, Sarah Palin
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Our Country Deserves Better PAC’s “Stop Obama Tour” made its last Nevada stop in a Republican enclave in Democratic-majority Clark County Friday morning, hitting much of the same notes made in previous stops: Barack Obama is an inexperienced candidate who will raise taxes while John McCain is a loyal public servant [...]
Tags: · Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Elko, Henderson, John McCain, Nevada, Our Country Deserves Better, Sarah Palin, Stop Obama Tour, swing states
ELKO, Nev. - A pro-John McCain - or, more accurately, an anti-Barack Obama - bus tour stopped in town Thursday morning, urging voters in one of the states most conservative counties to be unwavering in their support for the Republican candidate.
Elko residents come out to ‘Stop Obama’
The “Stop Obama Tour” kicked off Wednesday with rallies [...]
Tags: · Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Elko, John McCain, Nevada, Our Country Deserves Better, rural communities, rural voters, Sarah Palin, Stop Obama Tour
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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Sen. John McCain is scheduled to accept the Republican nomination for president later tonight. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accepted the nomination for vice president last night. Though neither has spent much time talking about immigration, it is sure to come up some time after the next president takes office. With that in mind, how have [...]
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