Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Amendment 46 SquareState.net: "Today's Denver Post has the announcement that a religious organization opposes Californian Ward Connerly's Amendment 46 that would do away with affirmative action programs." Category: Denver November 2008 Election 7:21:25 PM

? for President? Andrew Sullivan: "Obama On The Judiciary: He's not quite the knee-jerk liberal base-pleaser some want us to believe. Here's a blog post by Obama three years ago defending Feingold's and Leahy's vote for John Roberts. In some ways, it's a very good summary of why Paul Krugman is right not to like him, and why more conservatives than you might think are drawn to him." New West: "Will Amendment 48, the pro-life ballot measure that will be voted on in the November election, cost Barack Obama Colorado? That's one possibility raised in recent days by local politicos eyeing the fall presidential race. , At the same time we are witnessing what the Grand Junction Sentinel calls "a fundamental realignment of the formerly reliably Republican Rocky Mountain West." Brought to the ballot by abortion foes centered in Colorado Springs, Amendment 48 would revise the state constitution to define life as starting at conception. The measure could "bring out conservatives in droves, possibly spoiling the electorate's recent Democratic tendencies." Here's a roundup of conservatives that are not that charged up by the McCain candidacy from The Daily Kos. Category: 2008 Presidential Election 7:00:59 PM

? for U.S. Senate? Washington Times: "The last three Coloradans to hold this year's open Senate seat could be described as variations on a Republican theme: the exceedingly conservative Bill Armstrong, the rather conservative Hank Brown and the dependably conservative Wayne Allard. "It's hard to imagine putting any modifier in front of 'conservative' to describe Mark Udall, unless it's 'not.' Yet the Democratic congressman has staked a claim as the early front-runner in the race to succeed those bastions of Colorado Republicanism. "At a Democratic volunteer rally Saturday, Mr. Udall, wearing the traditional Western campaign ensemble of jeans, cowboy boots and a hefty silver belt buckle, fired up the party's ground troops by telling them that 'as Colorado goes, so goes the nation.' "'Traditional conservative values are reflected more by Democrats now in the West than Republicans,' Mr. Udall said later. 'There's a new kind of conservatism, particularly the 'live and let live' approach to people's personal lives.'" Category: Denver November 2008 Election 6:15:45 PM

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