Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Huffington Post’s Off The Bus project asked readers to weigh in on their election day voting experiences. I parsed through some of the raw data and highlighted some of the responses from swing states. My introduction below; voter impressions after the jump.
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Hundreds of reports on your election day experiences have poured into OfftheBus, and in [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Obama supporters gather in Elko, Nev., to watch the final debate
ELKO, Nev. — When Mable Kite decided to get involved in a political campaign for the first time in her life, she jumped right into the deep end. She organized her local caucus, served as an Obama precinct captain, provided room and board for out [...]

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The presidential candidates have avoided talking much about immigration reform, but they both recognize that it is an important issue for Latino voters. That’s why John McCain ran Spanish-language ads touting his role in a controversial effort at comprehensive immigration reform, and it’s also why Barack Obama criticized his opponent for not including that reform [...]

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