Here's a short article about Denver's bid to host the Democratic National Convention from the Scripps Howard News Service. They write, "The rising importance of Colorado and other mountain states as key battlegrounds in the 2008 presidential election will serve Denver's bid to host that year's Democratic National Convention, a political analyst told a local host committee Tuesday.
"Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean and other party leaders are keenly aware of the Mountain West's role as a potential mother lode of new Democrat voters, Michael Stratton, a Littleton, Colo., political strategist, told local Democrats, and some Republicans, during the first host committee gathering at the new Hyatt Regency Denver.
"Western states have succeeded in 'bringing facts to the table that have really resonated with Chairman Dean, which is that Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada are now as crucial as any four states in the country,' Stratton said. 'People who study the demographics of where the vote is and where the potential for the vote is now realize that the Western states are critical for us winning the White House in 2008...'
"The political clout of the Mountain West is also why as many to four neighboring states - Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah - are expected to hold their primaries in January and February 2008 as key battlegrounds at the start of the presidential campaign, said Stratton, who served last year on a national Democratic commission that revamped the presidential primary schedule.
"So, presidential candidates from both parties 'are going to have to troop through Denver and Albuquerque and Salt Lake and Phoenix and Las Vegas in a way that they haven't in the past' Stratton said. This will thrust largely ignored Western issues - land use, water needs and the environment - back on the national agenda."
Here's the coverage from the Denver Post.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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