by Shawn Scanlon
Prop 8 continues to be a hot issue, well after the election, with a recent poll showing that religion and class played a larger role than race did in how voters decided on Prop 8. Food for thought, anyway.
Also, I found this to be an entertaining video, and I’m hoping that you do [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Voter Demographics’
December 4, 2008
More Prop 8… in theatrical form!
November 19, 2008
Change
As Barack Obama was elected on November 4th, one could not escape the excitement in the air. Horns, screams, cheers, and clapping could be heard all around downtown Denver. On T.V. people were crying tears of joy at Obama‘s acceptance speech. Even I, Elizabeth Woods, the conservative from this elections course, felt proud to be [...]
November 4, 2008
Did they call you too?
By Ilasiea L. Gray
So I thought about all the things I wanted to write about for this blog. Topics like he Colorado Amendments, Senate races, pre-election day coverage, and all kinds of other things filled my head. Then three phone calls changed my mind. I remember in class we discussed how in the past there [...]
November 3, 2008
Early Voting Going Nationwide?
By Matt Knipple
I decided to concentrate my most recent blog on voting, in particular early voting. After going out and performing exit polls on the many people that showed up it got me thinking about the rest of the states and how popular or unpopular early voting is. To my surprise, as pointed out [...]
October 29, 2008
How wierd is this???
By Leonid Balaban
Courtesy of Ben Smith of Politico…
A house in Martinsville, Indiana, a town once famous as a Klan stronghold.
October 29, 2008
Lakoff Part Deux
Professor Robinson brought up some <a href=”http://election2008ucdenver.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/lakoff-metaphors-and-08-campaign-oh-my/#comment-329″>great points</a> in his comments about my last post regarding <a href=”http://election2008ucdenver.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/lakoff-metaphors-and-08-campaign-oh-my/#comments”>George Lakoff</a>. I would like to address them and other issues that have crept up over the past couple weeks.
<em>”…the real debates are not about frames–they are about fundamental policies.”</em>
Professor Robinson is right, the real debate is about [...]
October 28, 2008
What a heck happened with CD-7
by Leonid Balaban
When Colorado 7th Congressional District (CD-7) was created after census in the year 2000, it was drawn up by courts in such a way that there was no clear advantage for either major political party. In fact, at the time when the first ever contest was held in that district in 2002, the [...]
September 23, 2008
No es honesto
By Diego Del Campo
Barack Obama’s ad targeting Latinos stretches the guilt-by-association trick a bit:
Titled, “Two Faces” the ad’s logic is basically this:
John McCain is a Republican
Rush Limbaugh is a Republican
Rush Limbaugh hates immigrants
Therefore: John McCain hates immigrants.
For one, I will never forget the courage John McCain showed in standing up to [...]
September 20, 2008
Race is still playing a role!/Keith Valentine
According to this recent pole, Race is still playing a vital role in this year’s election. Is this going to cost Obama the election? My guess is, yes. I have said all along that race is playing a bigger underlying role than many people want to recognize. I personally feel that many Americans have some [...]
August 22, 2008
It’s a Horse Race
While Obama’s campaign “change we can believe in” is resonating well with the young demographic of the United States, and favoritism for the GOP has significantly dropped under the Bush administration, the polls are showing a tight race between McCain and Obama.One might think that with skyrocketing gas prices, record inflation, the sub prime debacle, [...]
