Tag: Colorado 2008
Posted on Fri Nov 07, 2008 at 11:51:07 AM EST
Tags: Colorado 2008 (all tags)
Colorado is now the first state in the country where voters rejected a ban on affirmative action programs.
The only votes still uncounted are about 55,000 in Boulder (dust got on the paper ballots, another first) but the remaining Boulder votes are 70% against the ban so the papers have called the it.
Amendment 46 would have barred state officials from considering race or gender in decisions on hiring, contracting and admissions to public colleges and universities.
...In Colorado, the proposal would have amended the state constitution to declare that the state may not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, individuals or groups based on race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin.
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Posted on Sun Oct 12, 2008 at 12:23:04 PM EST
Tags: Colorado 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain (all tags)
Update: Mayhill Fowler at HuffPo has much more on Colorado, including the great photo above.
Public Policy Polling released a new Colorado poll (pdf) yesterday showing Sen. Barack Obama with a ten point lead over John McCain.
Obama leads John McCain 52-42, up from a seven point advantage in a PPP Colorado survey three weeks ago. With only 6% of voters undecided and just 6% of those with a current preference open to changing their minds McCain is basically in a situation right now where he will need to take every undecided voter and also every Obama supporter willing to consider changing their mind to have any chance at winning the state.
PPP says the Latino vote has propelled Obama to his surge, and similar trends are seen in New Mexcio and Nevada: [More...]
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