Coyote Gulch

Saturday, March 20, 2004

Denver November 2004 Election
Denver Auditor, Dennis Gallagher, throws a shindig every year to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The 'Ol Coyote and Mrs. Gulch dropped by the Police Protective Association tonight to see what was going on, and who was making the scene. It's always very cool to howl with Dennis' North Denver fans, eat some corned beef and cabbage, and check out the silent auction. Bagpipes and step dancers got the crowd into a green mood, along with a guest appearance from St. Patrick (herself?).
Mitch Morrisey, John Walsh and Beth McCann were there pressing the flesh and gearing up for the kissing of the babies season. They are all running for Denver District Attorney of course.
City Council President, Elbra Wedgeworth, and Election Commisioner, Sandy Adams, were present and accounted for. Watching the crowd the 'Ol Coyote noticed that Councilwoman Wedgeworth seemed to know as many people as the Auditor. That is no small task considering the fact that Dennis has represented North Denver since the early 70's, in the Legislature (House and Senate), on Council, and now as Auditor.
7:11:51 PM

2004 Presidential Election
Don't chalk up Arizona as a swing state in the presidential election this fall. Political Wire is reporting that George Bush is polling 51 to 42 against John Kerry there according to a recent Survey USA poll.
Yahoo! News: "George W. Bush and John Kerry are in a virtual dead heat in Michigan in their race for the presidency, according to an Inside Michigan Politics Poll. Bush, who lost the state to Democrat Al Gore by about 5% in the 2000 Presidential contest, leads Kerry by a skimpy 47% - 45%, according to a March 8-14 statewide survey commissioned by the newsletter Inside Michigan Politics and conducted by Lansing-based Marketing Resource Group, Inc. About 8% were Undecided, Refused to Answer, or said they Didn't Know (U/RtA/DK)."
The Washington Post is running an article about how the presiidential campaign is running on Internet time. From the article, "Technology and the sheer acceleration of news coverage have combined to produce a presidential campaign that is faster and more frenetic than ever before, reducing response time to mere minutes. Although campaigns have been in rapid response mode since the days of Bill Clinton's 1992 war room, Bush and Kerry operatives now flood reporters with e-mail attacks and BlackBerry responses, arrange conference calls and wage a Web war complete with online video -- a far cry from the faxed statements of an earlier era. The stakes are considerable. In a campaign that is striking for its early intensity and daily negativity, each side is trying to frame the debate -- Bush by painting Kerry as big on taxes and soft on defense, and Kerry by depicting the president as a failure on the economy and Iraq. Each newspaper headline, television sound bite or Internet posting burnishes or blemishes the candidates' image." Thanks to Taegan Goddard for the link.
Update: John Kerry and George Bush are battling it out in the key swing states, according to NHPrimary.com.
7:11:18 AM

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