Coyote Gulch

Thursday, October 18, 2007

? for President?
Spartan Internet: "The Spartan Internet Political Performance (SIPP) Index is the first quantitative metric to measure the Internet-wide performance of each Presidential candidate for the 2008 election. The Index is comprised of over 650 quantitative factors measuring the level of support and how well each candidate is connecting with individuals across the Internet. The score for each candidate represents their overall Internet market share."

Thanks to beSpacific for the link.

Political Wire: "A new Strategic Vision (R) poll in Iowa finds Sen. Hillary Clinton leading the Democratic presidential field with 28% support, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 23%, John Edwards at 20% and Gov. Bill Richardson at 9%. On the Republican side, Mitt Romney leads with 27%, followed by Rudy Giuliani at 13%, Mike Huckabee at 12%, Fred Thompson at 10% and Sen. John McCain at 5%."
"2008 pres"
6:48:47 PM

Latino vote
Captain's Quarters: "Republicans have heard dire warnings about the impact of border-security and immigration rhetoric on the growing bloc of Latino voters. The GOP will lose the next generation of the American electorate if the party does not moderate its stance on illegal immigration, especially in the tone of the debate. The fastest-growing segment of the population will soon grow large enought to punish the Republicans and reduce them to permanent minority status.

"Not so fast, writes Steve Malanga in today's Los Angeles Times. Not only has the Latino bloc been overestimated, it has not given all that much support to the GOP in any case -- and immigration is nowhere near as important to Latino voters as assumed."
"2008 pres"
6:24:11 PM

SECURE Water Act

From The Gallup Independent, "U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman has introduced the 'SECURE Water Act' to address some of the serious water-related challenges facing New Mexico and the United States ... The legislation is designed to facilitate the improvement of water management by the Bureau of Reclamation and takes into account the impacts of global climate change on water resources - something not considered in BOR's 2007 Hydrologic Determination which found sufficient water to support the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. Bingaman also is sponsoring that legislation."

More from the article:

Bingaman's bill requires an expansion of the National Streamflow Information Program and the development of a systematic groundwater monitoring program, and directs the USGS to formally establish a water use and availability assessment program consistent with recommendations made by the National Research Council. It also would require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Energy to increase the acquisition and analysis of water-related data to assess the long-term availability of water resources for irrigation, hydroelectric power, municipal, environmental uses, and other purposes...

For Navajo families living in the New Mexico portion of the reservation, who still must haul water for personal use and for livestock, the availability of water is a big question, especially in light of a revival of the uranium mining industry. While Cold War-era mining left them with a legacy of abandoned mines and contaminated lands, many fear that the new wave of in-situ recovery of uranium - which depends on water - will leave them and their grandchildren without a safe supply to meet their personal needs. There are a number of pending applications on file with the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer requesting water for proposed uranium mining operations in McKinley County, where Gallup is facing a critical water shortage and is depending on the Navajo-Gallup and the G-22 well projects to meet future needs.
"colorado water"
7:44:37 AM