October 27, 2008 – 11:33 am
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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Posted in The Western Edge
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Colorado, Denver, early voting, John McCain, Las Vegas, Nevada, New Mexico, Reno, Sarah Palin
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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 [...]
October 15, 2008 – 8:41 am
RENO - Heidi B. Smith, chairwoman of the Washoe County Republican party, flips through a stack of emails and phone messages she’s received about voter registration errors — people who registered as Republicans but are showing up as Democrats, misspelled names, bad addresses — when the phone rings. It’s a call that’s seemed more and [...]
October 8, 2008 – 9:58 am
ACORN Office Raided in Las Vegas
(AP photo)
Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of a group registering voters in low income communities seeking evidence of voter registration fraud on Tuesday. Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now organizers are accused of forging signatures of names picked out of phone books and NFL players.
“Tony Romo is [...]
October 7, 2008 – 7:31 pm
Disenfranchised voter Shirley Preiss, 97. (Photo by Stokely Baksh)
In an article for The Indypendent, former News 21 reporter Renee Feltz revisits Arizona, where thousands of potential voters have been unable to register due to new identification requirements. These voters, most of whom are poor, elderly and/or Latino, would have tended to vote Democratic. Thus it [...]
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.
The [...]
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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Posted in The Western Edge
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Also tagged acorn, Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Colorado, Elko, John McCain, Las Cruces, Latino vote, Nevada, New Mexico, Polls, Pueblo, Reno
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October 2, 2008 – 4:42 pm
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 [...]
October 1, 2008 – 10:28 am
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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Posted in The Western Edge
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Boulder, cell phones, Colorado, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Nevada, polling, Reno, Sarah Palin, youth vote
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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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Posted in The Western Edge
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Battle for the West, Bob Schaffer, Colorado, Dean Heller, Diana DeGette, drive for change, Ed Perlmutter, Heather Wilson, John McCain, John Salazar, Jon Porter, Latino vote, Marilyn Musgrave, Mark Udall, Nevada, New Mexico, Reno, Shelley Berkley, Steve Pearce, Tom Tancredo, Tom Udall, Washoe County
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