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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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Political Wire: "According to a new Reuters/Zogby poll, Sen. Hillary Clinton continues to lead the Democratic presidential race nationally with 38% support, but Sen. Barack Obama is gaining ground on her with 27% followed by John Edwards at 13%. On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani leads with 29%, followed by Fred Thompson at 15%, Mike Huckabee at 11%, Mitt Romney at 9%, and Sen. John McCain at 9%."
Political Wire: "Mike Huckabee, 'buoyed by strong support from Christian conservatives, has surged past three of his better-known presidential rivals and is now challenging former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the lead in the Iowa Republican caucuses,' according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll. Romney narrowly leads Huckabee, 28% to 24%, with Fred Thompson at 15%, Rudy Giuliani at 13%, Sen. John McCain at 6% and Rep. Ron Paul at 6%."
Talkleft: "Hillary won't cross writers' picket lines for CBS debate.
John Ellis (via Real Clear Politics):
Not so long ago, electability was a one-way ticket to presidential primary election oblivion. The road was littered with "most electable" candidates. Their names were Scranton and Romney, Muskie and Humphrey, Bayh and Connally; to mention but a few.
Today, electability is perhaps the most salient issue for presidential primary voters. It's the issue that catapulted Sen. John Kerry to the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. It's the issue that keeps afloat the 2008 Giuliani for President Campaign. In an age of highly polarized, hyper-alert politics, who can win in November matters a great deal.
Every time Sen. Hillary Clinton goes a bit wobbly, her chief strategist, Mark Penn, issues a memo which says, basically, not only is she electable, she's inevitable. And here are 8,000 pieces of poll data that prove the point. Mr. Penn did just that last week, in the run-up to the Nevada debate, after Sen. Clinton had fish-tailed through an icy patch. There aren't ten people in the United States who know more about what primary election voters consider salient than Mark Penn. So it's illustrative indeed that his counter-argument to the slightest sign of trouble is: she's inevitable, stop whining and shut up.
Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link.
Political Wire: "A new Research 2000 poll in Nevada finds Sen. Hillary Clinton with a large lead in the Democratic presidential race at 45%, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 20%, John Edwards at 12% and Gov. Bill Richardson at 8%. On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani leads with 29%, followed by Mitt Romney at 22%, Fred Thompson at 15%, Sen. John McCain at 8%, Rep. Ron Paul at 7% and Gov. Mike Huckabee at 6%."
Political Wire: "Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire is narrowing -- down 7 points since September -- according to the latest CNN/WMUR-TV poll. However, expectations are still on her side as nearly 70% of those polled believe she will eventually become the party's presidential nominee. Clinton now gets 36% support, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 22%, John Edwards at 13% and Gov. Bill Richardson at 12%."
"2008 pres"
2:31:18 PM 
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Here's an opinion piece in favor of Powertech's proposed uranium mining operation in Weld County from The Greeley Tribune "reg". From the column: "[Richard] Blubaugh pointed out in his column that the area where Powertech intends to mine is already contaminated with radionuclides...Uranium 238 is a radioactive isotope that eventually decays into stable lead. Along the decay chain, there are the radioactive isotopes of thorium, protactinium, uranium 234, radium, radon, polonium and thallium. And since uranium mining is only feasible where it is found in a concentration, it is a no-brainer that the area will indeed be 'contaminated,' regardless of whether it is disturbed or not."
More Coyote Gulch coverage here and here.
"2008 pres"
9:05:21 AM
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U.S. Representative Marilyn Musgrave is hoping that President Bush can help get the stalled legislation, H.R. 2334, Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness and Indian Peaks Wilderness Expansion Act, moving. The bill would provide wilderness protection for Rocky Mountain National Park, reports the The Fort Collins Coloradoan. From the article:
Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has sent a letter to President Bush and U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne urging them to stop holding up a bi-partisan bill to turn most of Rocky Mountain National Park into a wilderness area. The National Park Service and the owners of the Grand River Ditch appear to be close after two years of trying to craft an agreement that could clear the way for Congress to designate much of Rocky Mountain National Park as a wilderness area. The local ranching and farming community will not support the bill unless the company gets some protection from future lawsuits...
Musgrave pointed out in the letter how considerable time has been spent finding a solution that is agreeable to both sides of the issue, including the local agriculture community and environmentalists, and both sides of the aisle, noting Colorado's Republican and Democrat Congressional members came together to craft the bill. "There is no reason to hold up passage of our bill, and I am strongly urging that Sec. Kempthorne and the Administration move this wilderness designation forward," Musgrave wrote. "This agreement culminates years of work and now is the time to act." The federal government and the Water Supply & Storage Co. agreement would spell out the company's liability should the ditch fail and damage Rocky Mountain National Park, a park service official told a House subcommittee last week.
Here's an opinion piece about the designation from The Fort Collins Coloradoan. They write:
After more than three decades of waiting, yet another bureaucratic holdup has left the wilderness designation for Rocky Mountain National Park in limbo. The U.S. Park Service and Bush administration are dragging their feet on the designation over concerns about reducing liability of the Fort Collins-based Water Supply and Storage Co., which owns the Grand River Ditch located in the park. Federal officials want to make sure that the company is legally responsible for damage to the park should a breach occur in the ditch. Meantime, local ranching and farming representatives said they will not support the bill unless the company is at least partially protected from future lawsuits. Negotiations between Park Service officials and the ditch company have been ongoing for nearly two years. A Senate committee heard testimony on the topic in July but has taken no action...
And just last week, U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, a Democrat, testified in front of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands hearing on H.R. 2334, which outlines the designation. U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, a Republican, is the Senate co-sponsor with Salazar, and U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, a Democrat, is the House co-sponsor with Musgrave.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
"colorado water"
8:34:03 AM
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