Tag: 2008 Elections

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama broke into tears in front of a crowd of 25,000 at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte as he broke the news that his grandmother Madelyn Dunham had died Sunday night in Hawaii. "She was a quiet hero," Obama said of the woman who raised him as a young boy. On the eve of the election, wiping tears from his cheeks, Obama told the crowd, "In just one more day, we have the opportunity to honor all those quiet heroes all across America."

Appearing at an election-eve rally in Colorado Springs on Monday, Sarah Palin stood up for country singer Hank Wiliams, Jr., after the crooner took a swipe at Barack Obama, saying the Democratic presidential nominee is "not real crazy about" the national anthem.

Two Democrats running for county commissioner in Garfield County have accused conservative front groups with energy-industry backing of reaching new lows with deceptive attack ads and mailers, including one made to look like a legitimate newspaper.

Two polls released Friday show Democrat Mark Udall with double-digit leads over Republican Bob Schaffer in the Colorado Senate race, but a third poll released Saturday night found Udall with a smaller edge, within the survey's margin of error.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is leading nationally among Hispanic voters while Republican John McCain is leading heavily with white evangelicals, according to polling data released Sunday by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization.

Tomorrow people across the country will go to the polls and select the next cadre of leaders for our great nation. As a former campaign junkie — I've worked as Communications Director on two congressional and two gubernatorial races, as well as odd jobs on every election since 1998 — I thought I'd offer my insight into the final days of a campaign from a staffer's perspective. We're a rather neurotic group, so it ain't pretty, but from my experience here's what happens.

Colorado evangelicals are on the political outs. At least that's what Salon.com reporter Mike Madden says. Madden visited Colorado Springs' legendary New Life Church on Sunday, and found that Pastor Brady Boyd was less-than-partisan during his sermon, a phenomenon that the Colorado Independent noted last month.

Could countless hours of field work — canvassing door-to-door and making phone calls — be the key to winning a contested Senate seat that had been characterized by Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien as a “slam dunk” for Republicans?

Amendment 50 promises to pour millions into Colorado’s community colleges without raising taxes in an economy teetering towards recession. Why then, are so many people complaining that this gift horse has rotten teeth?

Hours after Vice President Dick Cheney said he was “delighted to support John McCain" while campaigning in Wyoming on Saturday, Barack Obama congratulated McCain for the endorsement at a rally in Pueblo, "because he really earned it." The Obama campaign released an ad Sunday morning mocking the endorsement, comparing the vice president's backing of McCain to Warren Buffett and Colin Powell's support for Obama.