Monday, May 30, 2005

How did the Salazars Win? Here's a look at the past at Ken Salazar's (and John's) win last november from the Rocky Mountain News [May 30, 2005, "Study dissects Salazars' winning ways"]. From the article, "The campaigns 'de-emphasized their standing as Latino candidates. They reconstructed themselves as farmers and businessmen,' said (Anna) Sampaio, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Denver. The Salazars were able to galvanize Hispanic voters while appealing to a large number of non-Hispanics, just as Antonio Villaraigosa did in Los Angeles recently to become the city's first Hispanic mayor in more than a century. Ken Salazar beat his Republican opponent in the U.S. Senate race, brewery executive Pete Coors, with more than 52 percent of the vote. John Salazar defeated former state natural resources director Greg Walcher, of Palisade, for the 3rd Congressional District seat that represents all or part of 29 counties in western and south-central Colorado. He won by about 13,000 votes - a considerable margin in a district in which Republicans hold a narrow plurality." Category: Denver November 2004 Election 7:13:09 AM    comment []

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