Patty Limerick is offering her services as a voice of the West during the DNC. Here are a few of the articles, podcasts, and more that she has been in.
Articles
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08/29/08 - LIMERICK: Wanted: A great audience
By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
The Rocky Mountain News"In the next few days, we are all going to be professors of communications, as we grade Barack Obama and John McCain on their speeches. Democrats and Republicans, Obama supporters and McCain supporters, at least we all share one standard of judgment in 2008: If they gave a PowerPoint presentation, they'd get an F...
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08/28/08 - LIMERICK: Unearthing a real Democrat
By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
The Rocky Mountain News"Wherever you look, paramedics on bicycles are available and ready to come to your aid. But no one had the foresight to arrange for a fleet of cultural anthropologists on bicycles to circle the town, wielding their professional expertise to help us figure out the spectacles unfolding in front of us...
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08/27/08 - Limerick: Do right by Ike
By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
The Rocky Mountain News"As we peer into society's future, we - you and I and our government - must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow." Who said this?...
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08/26/08 - Limerick: Fuzz-y feelings
By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
The Rocky Mountain NewsThere are police everywhere in Denver - on foot, in cars, on bikes, on motorcycles, on horses. Looking at them has made me a rattled time traveler...
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08/25/08 - Western Wonders
By Michael Booth
The Denver PostStanding in the shadow of their brand-new solar electric panels, Pete and Paul Austin launch a brotherly argument whose political implications soar on a late-summer breeze toward the Colorado border and out to the boundaries of the Mountain West...
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08/24/08 - Wild West No Longer a Lock for GOP
By Adriel Bettelheim
CQ PoliticsDenver's identity has always been defined by displays of rugged individualism. Voters rejected statehood in the first go-around in 1864, and long after joining the union, maintained a love-hate relationship with the national political establishment...
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08/24/08 - Between Past And Future, Denver Establishing A Presence
By Paul Starobin
National JournalDenver's Identity Is An Uncertain Mix Of Its Rugged History And A Niche In The High-Tech World. Decisions, decisions. For the Denver political, business, and cultural elite, there is no more prized invitation than the one to tonight's cocktail party at the Denver Art Museum...
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08/24/08 - Obama Prospecting for Electoral Gold in Old West
AFP
Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are hoping to strike electoral gold by mining for votes in a series of western US states long regarded as Republican strongholds...
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08/23/08 - Western pols often can't be pigeonholed
By Patty Limerick
Rocky Mountain NewsImagine a scenario that would hold great hope for the nation: As the Democratic delegates arrive at DIA, they are each handed a book, produced by a bipartisan team of Coloradans...
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08/23/08 - How the West Will Be Won
By Patty Limerick
The Wall Street JournalThe West evokes thoughts of classic heroes riding into troubled towns, bringing justice and order. The candidate who captures that myth - and the region's swing voters - will have the advantage...
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08/23/08 - Both Parties Appealing to `Uncoralled' Westerners
By Judith Kohler
USA TodayWestern history professor and writer Patty Limerick probably understands more than most the draw of the region's myth and romance. When it comes to politics, though, Limerick believes Westerners have more to teach the country and its candidates than legends about cowboy-hat-wearing heroes...
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01/25/08 - Learning to speak Western
Contenders could energize their campaigns by addressing issues critical to the West
By Patty Limerick
Denver PostLet's begin with a moment that will not strain your imagination. Let's say that we are sitting in front of our TVs, yawning a bit as we listen to a predictable debate among presidential candidates. Now imagine the moderator suddenly catching all candidates, campaign staffers, journalists, and citizens, by surprise...
Videos
More videos will be posted as they become available
Podcasts
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9/3/08 - Is Denver a Cow Town? on KCFR - Colorado Public Radio
Podcast features Patty Limerick
The Democratic convention's over, and in the wake of this huge event, the age-old question remains: Is Denver a cow town? For a look at how the world perceives Denver, Ryan Warner speaks with Patricia Limerick. She heads the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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8/28/08 - A Western Perspective On Immigration on WAMU 88.5FM
Podcast features Patty Limerick and Ana Sol Gutierrez
Few issues in the Mountain West are as incendiary as immigration. But the challenges that region faces on the immigration front are very different from the challenges confronting lawmakers in the Mid-Atlantic corridor. Join Kojo as we look at at this heated political issue from the perspective of Western states.
