Over at The American Prospect, Kate Sheppard writes about black and latino voters, or, as we call em ’round here, Missed GOP Opportunities: What should really worry Republicans is that the number of eligible minority voters is growing. More than 16 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in 2004, a 20 percent increase from [...]

Having seen first hand just how hard it is to register young voters, I empathize with Julia Goldberg regarding the Hip Hop Voter Project. She’s got more on her blog, but definitely check out the video. UPDATE — 4:04 pm: I should add that I found the experience very rewarding. It’s hard to get young [...]

Heath Haussamen has the goods: Democrat Patricia Madrid conceded the 1st Congressional District race to Republican Heather Wilson this morning. However, according to the Albuquerque Journal, the state Democratic Party might ask for a partial recount. Madrid, according to the newspaper, decided against a recount because she did not believe it would change the outcome. [...]

The Silver City Daily Press will have stories in today’s edition dealing with two hot-button issues: eminent domain and paper ballot systems. Earlier this week, I requested a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of the Grant County election returns. When I began to review the numbers yesterday, I noticed something peculiar: the early vote tallies did not come [...]

It looks like there are still several thousand (3,700?) votes remaining to be counted in the CD-1 race between Heather Wilson and Patricia Madrid. As I write this, Wilson maintains a 1,000-vote lead over Madrid. We may be waiting until the end of the week for a final canvas. Nationally, it looks like Jim Webb [...]

I’m going to a Chamber of Commerce luncheon right now, and won’t be back until later. Stay tuned to Heath Haussamen for the latest on what’s happening in Southern New Mexico, and to TAPPED and Talking Points Memo for the rest of the country. Oh, and Tester won Montana. That’s five Democratic pickups in the [...]

TPM Election Central has the goods.

So, none of the races here in Grant County were affected by anything overnight (for more on those races, check here). Regionally, it looks like Al Kissling pulled in 40 percent of the vote against Steve Pearce, a remarkable number considering Kissling’s lack of funding and political experience. He performed better than Gary King did [...]

Read Spencer Ackerman, who has been dead on for predictions tonight: David Gergen just speculated on CNN that Donald Rumsfeld will “fall on his sword,” meaning he’ll submit his twice-rejected resignation. Bush, of course, has pledged that Rumsfeld is his man. The only situation I can see whereby Rumsfeld is out at the Pentagon is [...]

OK, just to get this out there for those who are wondering: Grant County Sheriff Raul Holguin (D): 3,958 58.64% James Koons (R): 2,792 41.36% (I have to say, I didn’t think this race would be such a blowout. Bully came close to 60%, despite the negative campaign (on both sides) and with Koons outspending [...]

We’re on CATS — channels 17 and 19 on Grant County cable — starting at 7:15. We’ll bring you the latest on election results in the county, state and nationwide.