Tag: Joe Biden
VP debate: Liveblog from a women voters’ focus group
The historic vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden tonight will likely impact how women voters lean in the 2008 election. Women's Voices. Women Vote., a D.C. organization devoted to increasing voter participation among unmarried women, is hosting a focus group in Denver tonight to gage female reactions to the debate. Read on for the liveblog.
Veep debate moderator Ifill: The show must go on
TV Newser reports that Newshour co-host Gwen Ifill fell and broke her ankle at home while prepping for the vice presidential debate.
Affirmative-action defenders slam Jessica Peck Corry
A Colorado campaign to defend affirmative affirmative action programs against a ballot initiative that seeks to destroy them has some harsh words for its opponents.
With just six weeks and counting until voters are asked to weigh in on the controversially named Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, the Vote No campaign has dropped its lawsuit against its rivals and opted instead for a concentrated advertising campaign.
Poll talk … and the winner is?
Everyone is talking about polls. Fair enough. We are finally in the season when, to some minor extent, polls can be consulted for a sense about where this seemingly very tight race for the presidency is headed. So let's get clear about some basics:
McCain ad ‘lashes out’ at Obama’s ‘disrespect’ toward Palin
That 9/11 Truce didn't last long.
Palin’s Secret Service code name likely not Schaffer’s favorite
When Sarah Palin picked "Denali" as her Secret Service code name, was she subtly mocking Bob Schaffer?
Obama ekes out lead in Colorado after conventions
A Rasmussen poll released Monday evening shows Barack Obama reclaiming the lead among Colorado voters. The Democrat leads Republican John McCain 49-46 percent in the crucial swing state, host to the Democratic National Convention and a record-setting speech by Obama at Denver's Invesco Field.
Iowa Electronic Markets steady after conventions
It’s too soon for polls to reflect what bounce if any John McCain and Sarah Palin got out of the Republican National Convention, but traders on the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) are mostly unmoved by the unprecedented back-to-back convention weeks.
Crank turns T-shirt merchant with anti-Obama design
Three weeks after losing a rematch in the 5th Congressional District primary, Republican Jeff Crank is in St. Paul vending a T-shirt that warns against electing Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Featuring the familiar Obama logo with an added mushroom cloud, the "Obama bin Biden" shirts have generated plenty of interest at the Republican National Convention, Crank tells Politicker CO's Jeremy Pelzer.
DNC images from INVESCO
An estimated 84,000 people witnessed Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech and the ensuing festivities at the final evening of the Democratic National Convention.