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Friday, May 7, 2004
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2004 Presidential Election
Baghdad Burning: "I'm avoiding the internet because it feels like the pictures are somehow available on every site I visit. I'm torn between wishing they weren't there and feeling, somehow, that it's important that the whole world sees them. The thing, I guess, that bothers me most is that the children can see it all. How do you explain the face of the American soldier, leering over the faceless, naked bodies to a child? How do you explain the sick, twisted minds? How do you explain what is happening to a seven-year-old?" Thanks to TalkLeft for the link.
Taegan Goddard: "In Blueprint, Mark Gersh makes a compelling case that the "battleground states" of the 2000 election are different this time around."
John Kerry leads George Bush, 47 to 44, in a recent American Research Group national poll. President Bush leads Senator Kerry, 46 to 44, in a recent AP-Ipsos poll national poll. It's pretty much a tie. That's why the Electoral College vote, being fought out in the battleground states, is worth watching. This week Senator Kerry's campaign, flush with a bunch of dough, added Colorado and Louisana to the list even though they are leaning red.
Senator Kerry leads President Bush, 43 to 37, in New Jersey according to a recent Star-Ledger Rutgers/Eagleton poll. The American Research Group shows a deadlock in Oregon, 45 to 45 the President Bush leads Senator Kerry, 47 to 43 in West Virginia, according to the the AP via Taegan Goddard.
8:41:18 PM 
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Denver November 2004 Election
Colorado Luis: "Ken Salazar is obviously bucking the Democratic conventional wisdom about the rural west. I think this is a smart strategy. The electorate in the urbanized part of the state, like in most of the country, is already very polarized and it will be tough to get much movement in either direction. It will largely be a matter of motivating people to vote. But rural Coloradans, for reasons I have been talking about for a long time here and at other sites, have had good cause to question why they should support the Republican Party. The rural West isn't the rural South -- Republicans can't get by just with appeals on 'cultural issues.'"
Update: MakesMeRalph: "If you want a view of what Ken Salazar stands for, check out the Vail Daily News."
6:35:13 AM
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Colorado Water
Seven south metro water districts have agreed to a conservation effort to help preserve the acquifer they all depend on, according to the Denver Post [May 7, 20004, "South metro water districts unite to conserve aquifers"]. From the article, "Participants will form the South Metro Water Supply Authority in the next two months. That should open the door to negotiations with Denver Water to import water through its pipelines, as well as with the Summit County and Colorado River water districts, said Pat Mulhern, the project's manager. The plan will preserve non-renewable groundwater supplies by using surface water in "wet" years, Mulhern said. In dry years, the area will rely on the area's aquifers, he said...The water districts each will build and pay for pipelines to connect to each other or Denver Water's pipeline, Mulhern said...The collaboration will involve the Douglas County Water Resource Authority, Centennial Water and Sanitation District, the town of Castle Rock, East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District, and Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, in addition to water districts in the Castle Pines North, Cottonwood, Meridian, Inverness, Stonegate and Roxborough Park areas, officials said." Good idea.
6:24:25 AM
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