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Monday, November 13, 2006
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Josh Marshall: "Here's a topic I haven't seen sufficiently discussed yet: How many years did the GOP put itself back with the rising population of hispanic voters in this country by running pretty much their whole campaign on immigrant bashing?
"The answer, I think, is a lot. And exit poll data suggests a big drop off for Republicans among hispanic voters. According to the CNN exit polls, the 2004 spread as 40% for Republicans, 53% for Democrats. This year it was 26% for the GOP and 73% for Democrats.
"From a distance, it might not seem like the Republicans ran this race on immgration. And on the national level, they didn't. But if you watched how the campaign played out in competitive races across the country, it was huge. One of the big campaign gambits from Republican candidates was Democratic Candidate X is going to ruin Social Security by giving away money to illegal aliens (pan to pictures of Mexicans)"
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
5:47:32 PM 
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Here's a recap of Bill Ritter's election strategy from the Cortez Journal. From the article, "A day after Bill Ritter won the governor's race, his campaign managers pulled back the curtain on their strategy. The strategy hinged on constant travel to lay the foundation of support across the state. He traveled to all 64 counties at least once. The campaign concentrated especially hard on five counties in the 3rd Congressional District - La Plata, Gunnison, Alamosa, Chaffee and Mesa, said campaign manager Greg Kolomitz. He carried 62 percent of the vote in La Plata County. 'It was a very methodical, laid-out approach. You couldn't do that by dropping into Durango in the last two weeks,' Kolomitz said...
"Ritter's campaign tried to identify what Beattie called 'psychographics' - points of agreement among Ritter and voters of all political stripes. Ritter searched out people and groups who supported Referendums C and D in 2005. Many C and D supporters came from the business community, a traditionally Republican group. When he spoke to voters, he tried to emphasize a broad vision for the state's future that includes education and health care reform. He tried to avoid bogging down on single issues like illegal immigration."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:26:23 AM
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Here's an update on counting last Tuesday's vote in Denver County, from the Rocky Mountain News. They write, "As of 12:30 p.m. Sunday, 14,000 of an estimated 64,000 absentee ballots from Denver County remained to be counted, Dillard said. He predicted, however, that they would be counted by the end of the night. If so, the totals would represent 97 percent of all ballots cast. Three races continued to hang in the balance, including the at-large University of Colorado regent's race, Denver's preschool tax and the race for secretary of state. Democratic Sen. Ken Gordon, who is trailing Republican rival Mike Coffman in the secretary of state race, said he's not waiting on Denver alone to finish tallying votes. 'I understand Pueblo's not done, and other counties have provisional ballots that need to be counted,' he said Sunday afternoon. 'So, I don't know - it could still be a couple of days until everything is done. They should count all the votes and then we'll see who has the most.' Ben Neilson, Pueblo County's elections supervisor, did not return messages left at his home. His wife said he was taking a break for the day. Earlier Sunday, a woman who answered the phone at the Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder's Office said everyone except her was gone for the day."
It looks like City Auditor Dennis Gallagher will have paperwork in place this week to replace the Denver Election Commission, according to the Denver Post. From the article, "Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher is pushing for legislation from the City Council early this week to overhaul the Denver Election Commission. The move would come long before the outcome of a task force Mayor John Hickenlooper is convening or of a ballot petition Gallagher initiated. The move is the most recent effort to create a single, elected clerk and recorder rather than the three-commissioner system Denver currently has. Gallagher had hoped to announce a City Council bill alongside Councilwoman Rosemary Rodriguez and the mayor at a news conference as early as today. But differences on specifics about the new clerk and recorder's office delayed things Sunday, Gallagher's spokesman, Denis Berckefeldt, said. 'We thought having all three branches of government was important,' Berckefeldt said, adding that they are still pushing for something 'the first part of this week.' The proposal comes as fallout from last week's Election Day disaster continues. Several city officials have called for swift action after computer problems Tuesday caused long lines and forced an unknown number of potential voters to give up."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
5:41:35 AM
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© Copyright 2006 John Orr.
Last update: 12/2/06; 8:02:32 AM.
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