LA Observed
Election Day
Can you feel it? That unfamiliar energy in the air is good old election buzz. How strange, and how welcome.
By Kevin Roderick • • 4m ListenThis is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW.
Can you feel it? That unfamiliar energy in the air is good old election buzz. How strange, and how welcome.
presidential primary to February 5. Seemed to me that the biggest state in the land didn't need to tweak its electoral traditions just to manufacture some excitement.
Antonio Villaraigosa and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez among them. Both men are confident that Clinton will receive a large majority of the Latino vote.
El Piolín" is the astoundingly popular Spanish-language deejay who filled the streets of Downtown with immigrants two years ago. Last week he gave Ted Kennedy an open mike to make his pitch for Obama.
Opinión, the biggest Spanish-language newspaper, endorsed Obama. So did María Elena Durazo, LA's most powerful labor leader.
Loretta Sanchez is voting for Clinton, Linda Sanchez for Obama.
his big rally at UCLA over the weekend. He sent his wife Michelle to headline the event...and Oprah Winfrey...and Caroline Kennedy.
Maria Shriver was so moved by all that woman power that -– on a whim, she says -- she stopped by on the way home from the stables and strode on stage in riding wear to endorse Obama.
endorsing John McCain. The Republican race nationwide is not quite as intense as the duel between the Democrats, but going into today the polls couldn't agree on whether McCain or Mitt Romney was in the lead in California.
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