Hundreds of reports on your election day experiences have poured into OfftheBus, and in battleground states the results are mixed. By early afternoon, wait times ranged from minutes to hours and, despite minor hiccups, most people found the process reaffirming.
Expectations going in largely impacted impressions coming out. Fearing 4...
Posted October 30, 2008 | 15:04:10 (EST)
The Colorado Secretary of State's office has settled a lawsuit brought by voters' rights groups and the SEIU over what they claimed were illegal purges from the voter roles. The agreement allows the suspect voters to cast provisional ballots and essentially jump to the...
Posted October 29, 2008 | 14:47:15 (EST)
A study published earlier this month by the William C. Velasquez Institute looked at statewide polling data and determined that, if the election were held today, "Latino voters would provide the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Nevada,...
Posted October 27, 2008 | 16:27:52 (EST)
Sen. Barack Obama and 100,000 of his closest friends in Denver on Sunday (Reuters)
Colorado
"well over 100,000": record-breaking number of supporters who came out to hear Barack Obama speak at the foot of the capitol in Denver...
Posted October 24, 2008 | 15:41:16 (EST)
The National Republican Senatorial Committee confirmed today it was pulling its support from the Colorado race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Wayne Allard. Rumors of the pullout began circulating last week, but subsided after NRSC chairman Sen. John Ensign...
Posted October 24, 2008 | 12:54:31 (EST)
What is it with local GOP officials in New Mexico? Last month, Bernalillo County Republican Party chairman Fernando C De Baca was forced to resign after saying "Hispanics consider themselves above blacks" and wouldn't vote for a black presidential candidate and today the chairwoman...
Posted October 22, 2008 | 15:22:44 (EST)
McCain operatives say rumors of their candidate's departure from the Centennial State are greatly exaggerated. CNN's John King reported on Monday that GOP strategists were massaging the math looking for a path to the White House that didn't include Colorado. One unnamed source...
Posted October 20, 2008 | 16:04:03 (EST)
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- In the shadow of a statue honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., members of the majority African-American West Las Vegas community staged a march to the polls and rally Saturday morning, the first day of early voting in the state.
"I think that Clark County is truly...
Posted October 17, 2008 | 18:57:47 (EST)
HENDERSON, Nev. -- The Our Country Deserves Better PAC's "Stop Obama Tour" made its last Nevada stop in a Republican enclave in Democratic-majority Clark County Friday morning, hitting much of the same notes made in previous stops: Barack Obama is an inexperienced candidate who will raise...
Posted October 17, 2008 | 13:27:00 (EST)
ELKO, Nev. -- A pro-John McCain / anti-Barack Obama bus tour stopped here Thursday morning, urging voters in one of the state's most conservative counties to be unwavering in their support for the Republican candidate.
Elko residents come out to 'Stop Obama'
The...
Posted October 16, 2008 | 16:05:07 (EST)
ELKO, Nev. -- When Mable Kite decided to get involved in a political campaign for the first time in her life, she jumped right into the deep end. She organized her local caucus, served as an Obama precinct captain, provided room and board for out of town Obama staffers and...
Posted October 15, 2008 | 13:13:22 (EST)
RENO, Nev. -- Heidi B. Smith, chairwoman of the Washoe County Republican party, flips through a stack of emails and phone messages she's received about voter registration errors -- people who registered as Republicans but are showing up as Democrats, misspelled names, bad addresses -- when the phone rings. It's...
Posted October 10, 2008 | 15:01:24 (EST)
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Colorado and Nevada officials responded on Thursday to Wednesday's New York Times story alleging thousands of voters have been removed from voter rolls or blocked from registering in violation of federal law. The...
Posted October 8, 2008 | 14:58:57 (EST)
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Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of a group registering voters in low income communities seeking evidence of voter registration fraud on Tuesday. Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now organizers...
Posted October 7, 2008 | 17:39:08 (EST)
Colorado 2008 = Florida 2000?
The Colorado Independent wonders if Colorado will take the crown as the poster child for Election Day dysfunction this year, pointing to potential problems with a new statewide voter...
Posted October 7, 2008 | 15:01:48 (EST)
A cutout of Barack Obama at a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Denver last month (Getty Images)
New Mexico took center stage over the weekend on a 20-minute segment -- New...
Posted October 3, 2008 | 15:43:00 (EST)
Sen. Barack Obama stumps in Reno September 30 - Getty Images
Two new polls have Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. John McCain in Nevada. An InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position survey of 437 likely voters has Obama up...
Posted October 2, 2008 | 11:30:21 (EST)
If Nevada continues to be one of the handful of pure toss-up states, why the dearth of polls in the state, asks UNLV political science...
Posted September 30, 2008 | 15:38:18 (EST)
Barack Obama takes the stage Tuesday at the University of Nevada, Reno (AP)
Today's Los Angeles Times looked at the Democratic party's surge in registrations in Nevada, with 43 percent of registered voters to the Republicans...
Posted September 26, 2008 | 19:50:17 (EST)
Bernalillo GOP chair: 'Hispanics won't vote for a black president'
The chairman of the Bernalillo County Republican Party resigned Thursday following comments reported on a BBC blog last week that most observers...
Posted November 4, 2008 | 15:32:48 (EST)