Coyote Gulch

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Bolton
Blogs for Bush: "Senate GOPers confident on Bolton. Of course, given recent events many of us rank-and-file GOPers aren't confident that Senate GOPers could start a fire with a flamethrower, but they're talking like they know what they're doing."
Stygius: "Senator Dodd is up, making the linkage between permitting the vote to the Administration releasing the NSA intercepts. The Rockefeller Letter is having a good splash, finally perking people up to how far the White House has stonewalled this issue. 'We can have a vote by 6:00 if they release the information.' Senator Judd claimed the Democrats were going to filibuster the vote, but that is nonsense."
The Moderate Voice: "This has definitely been Senator John McCain's shining moment (for some) - but does this mean he is the Senate's 'real leader'?"
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition
12:08:02 PM

Weblogs in Elections
Colorado Pols: "House Minority Leader Joe Stengel intends to file an 'exploratory committee' for State Treasurer (never mind the State recognizes no such committee.)"
Political Wire: "A new Ipsos survey notes that more than half of blog readers believe blogs influence public opinion (68%), mainstream media (56%) and public policy (54%). Even among those who don't read blogs, three in ten (29%) believe blogs can change public perception of issues."
Here's a great post from Sandy Carmany. Ms. Carmany is a city councilwoman in Greensborough, North Carolina. Writing about the city budget she is able to state her views for all constituents to read. Not several clicks inside a traditional website. Right up front. Content refreshed often.
Thank to Ed Cone for the link.
Wall Street Journal: "The numbers of the blogosphere range widely. Are there 10 million blogs, or 32 million? Do a quarter of online Americans really read blogs, as one oft-cited survey found? And why do rankings of the most popular blogs vary so much?"
Political Wire: "All 27 members of the Democratic caucus of the Oregon House have agreed to blog together on a single blog."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
11:57:26 AM

Weblogs
Here is a consequence of weblogging that Coyote Gulch had missed.
11:52:17 AM

Clark for President?
Political Wire: "Retired Gen. Wesley Clark (D) 'has taken a high-profile role, both on and off Capitol Hill, as a Democratic spokesman and foreign policy adviser, stoking speculation that he is planning another national campaign in 2008,' Roll Call reports."
Political Wire: "According to The Forward, Indiana State Rep. David Orentlicher emailed to say Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) 'is setting up his campaign committee' for a possible 2008 Democratic presidential bid. 'Some people who worked for him in past campaigns are moving to Washington.'"
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
11:48:07 AM

Dolores River - 5,000 cfs
Cortez Journal: "A private bridge over the Dolores River at Road 38.1 was washed out Sunday night. Two families, Don and Jeannie Millikans and Ron and Diane Louis, now have to access their homes via a four-wheel-drive road starting from a bridge downriver."
New West: "To many of us in the West, floods have come to be viewed as an outdated affliction, like locusts or the gout. That changed this week, as abundant snowpack combined with a near-record heat wave to swell rivers across the Western Slope."
Category: Colorado Water
11:17:27 AM

'04 Turnout
Here's an article from the Rocky Mountain news about voter turnout in last fall's elections [May 26, 2005, "'04 vote brought out young"]. From the article, "The census survey found the number of Colorado voters aged 18 to 24 rose from 84,000 in 2000 to 212,000 in 2004. The percentage of all young residents who cast ballots rose from 21 percent in 2000 to 44 percent in 2004, on a par with national figures of 17 percent and 45 percent respectively."
State Democrats raised more campaign dough than Republicans, outside of Colorado, according to the Denver Post [May 6, 2005, "Dems far outdrew GOP in '04 out-of-state cash]." They write, "Colorado Democrats raised nearly 19 times as much out-of-state money as Republicans did during the 2004 election cycle, according to a report to be released today by the Center for Public Integrity."
Colorado Luis: "So much for the Salazar effect, you say? Well, perhaps not. Only 63% of "Hispanic" adults in Colorado are citizens who can vote in the first place, so the percentage of eligible Latino voters who actually voted is in the forty percent range. And of registered Latinos, 81% voted, which suggests both that there was a Salazar effect and that the strong efforts to get eligible Latinos registered that were made last year need to continue."
Category: Denver November 2004 Election
9:42:11 AM

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