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March 01, 2010 09:19 PM UTC

Northern Colorado Tea Party considers endorsements

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  • by: BobMoore

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The Northern Colorado Tea Party, one of the more engaged and better organized Tea Party groups in the state, is considering endorsements in key races, according to an e-mail the group sent out Monday morning.

The endorsements would be decided by a poll being conducted on the Northern Colorado Tea Party’s Web site. The poll is here, and as you’ll see below, there doesn’t appear to be any controls on ballot stuffing.

http://www.northerncoloradotea…

“The endorsement would align the Tea Party with the candidates who receive over 51 percent of the vote with at least a 20 point margin from the runner-up candidate,” according to the announcement. “The candidates would have the ability to use the endorsement on literature, press releases, speeches, etc.”

The poll includes four races – governor, U.S. senator, U.S. representative for the 4th Congressional District and Larimer County sheriff. When I looked at the poll results at about 10:45 a.m. Monday, two candidates met the endorsement threshold – gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes and Senate candidate Ken Buck.

State Rep. Cory Gardner of Yuma led Tea Party native son Dean Madere 43-27, so he’s in reach of hitting the endorsement thresholds.  

There is one major flaw to the poll that I see. It appears to allow multiple votes from the same computer. That opens the door to campaigns to flood responses and impact the endorsement. It’s also an open invitation to mischief.

UPDATE: Sometime around 2 p.m., the Tea Party took down the 4th Congressional District part of the poll. This appears to have occurred after a sudden rush that pushed Tom Lucero from near the bottom to the lead. The other three races are still up.

UPDATE NUMERO DOS: By 3:30 or so, McInnis had passed Maes. Maybe Neal Cavuto was right.

UPDATE NOMBRE TROIS: As noted in the comments, the poll is now gone. Not a surprising development given the way they set it up.

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    1. TAXPAYER DAY AT THE CAPITOL

      Wednesday, March 10, 2010

      Colorado State Capitol Building

      200 E. Colfax Avenue

      Denver, Colorado

      Schedule

      12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Taxpayer Rally on West Steps

      1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Visit legislators

      Sponsored by Americans for Prosperity Colorado

       Cosponsors include:

      The 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition

      Colorado Union of Taxpayers

      Campaign for Liberty

      The Gadsden Society

      The Independence Institute

      Liberty on the Rocks

      Northern Colorado Tea Party

      Peoples Press Collective

      We the People Congress

      Western Slope Conservative Alliance

      Some state legislators and Governor Ritter are trying to force tax increases through the legislature, despite our State Constitutional requirement that these tax increases be voted on by the people. The message of smaller government living within its means hasn’t gotten through. While there is a day at the Capitol for every special interest group out there, one interest group – the taxpayer – seems to have been forgotten until now.  

      Join your fellow concerned taxpayers to send a message to Colorado’s Governor and our state legislature!

      Prior to the rally, American’s for Prosperity will be hosting a grassroots advocacy session beginning at 9:00 am.  This session is a chance for grassroots activists to learn how to effectively communicate with their state representatives using new media and other sources.  The cost for this session is $15/person.

      http://www.northerncoloradotea…

        2. I have been thinking about creating my own “Tea Party”-9-12er, organization that people can give me money to belong to.

          I could spout the internally conflicted talking points from the the ridiculous right  while collecting money from them.  Too bad Acorn is dissolving because then I could donate all the proceeds to Acorn for an even more delicious Irony.

          One of my most lefty friends (I wouldn’t call him a liberal, he’s a bit more Che than that).  Has a T-shirt company and he has been making money hand over fist selling Tshirts to the Right wing kooks.  I asked him about some of the racial stuff on some of the shirts he sold (he being a mixed race latino/african american and his wife being pakistani) and he said at least I can tell who hates me when they wear it on their shirt.  

          Interesting side note, the average size of shirts for his right wing line vs his left wing line is 2 sizes bigger:  I guess there are a lot of folks on the right ordering XXL.

    1. That some campaigns already had this figured out, and the rest would have. I might have sped up the process a touch. There’s been a couple huge swings since I originally posted this. McInnis has closed the gap with Maes, knocking him under the endorsement threshold. And Lucero jumped over Gardner and Madere.

      1. See, that’s what having a large paid staff with high-speed Internet access (and nothing else to do on a Monday afternoon) will do for you! McInnis was no fool raising all that money!

    1. Romanoff is not on the Senate poll, but Bennet is. I guess that proves he’s no populist opposed to big government! (There are a number of third-party candidates missing form the polls too.)

      Interesting to note too, roughly half the respondents say they live outside Larimer County (in the sheriff poll).

      1. Speaking at a Denver rally for Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet Thursday evening, President Obama praised the politically endangered appointed senator’s history of public service.

        Bennet, who was appointed to fill the seat of Ken Salazar after Obama tapped Salazar as interior secretary, had served as Denver’s superintendent of education before being tapped for the Senate in January 2009 by Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter. Obama said that he’s not a typical politician, joking, “He hasn’t even made a TV ad, heaven forbid.”

        snip

        “He has always thrived in taking on the tough job,” said Obama.

        Speaking before the president, Bennet reminded voters of Obama’s victory in the state in 2008 and his convention speech there, echoing the president’s themes of tackling Washington as an outsider.

        “Let’s remember not only what we did but why we did it … why Democrats and Republicans and unaffiliated voters set aside party politics and put our country first.”

        Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s…

        1. 2 links in one comments section. I do believe this is a new record for you.

          But what I want to know is who gave the non-sequitur google bot your username and password?

  4. Jay Harrison and Al Ohms.

    I do adore how all the Democratic nominees are the last names listed in each category, that is, the names they remembered.  

    1. They’re so non-partisan they were nice enough to include (some) of the candidates from the party they’re not non-non-affiliated with.

  5. No one likes her except her lobbyist relatives and the remnants of the John McCain campaign.

    In the Fox News interview she did last week, the perky host asked her whether she was “worried” the Tea Party people “like you too much.” Jane wasn’t worried, though she welcomes their enthusiasm, or some such talking point. But according to actual Tea Party people, Jane ranks behind Ken Buck, behind Cleve Tidwell, and just barely ahead of Tom Wiens and Michael Bennet (!). Don’t worry, Jane, they don’t like you too much!

  6. and changed that category to Undecided–so those of us that voted for the Hickenlooper, Bennet and Markey have had our vote changed. Wow, what a disingenuous poll and considering how bad it was to start with, that’s saying something.

      2. I check it in both of my browsers. He was listed as Undecided. This poll changes more often than most people change their underwear.

      3. incompetence is a bagger badge of honor. Polling is for insiders! We don’t endorse leadership-by-polls. We don’t need no stinking polling– even when we’re conducting the stinking polling!


    2. ALL POLLS HAVE BEEN CLOSED AND REMOVED DUE TO EXTREME ABUSE AND MANIPULATION OVER A PERIOD OF ONLY HOURS.

      This became grossly apparant after specific candidates received well over 500 votes in only 15 minutes.

      This is very disappointing, as the candidate support poll was up and active for 5 days without any disturbing trends prior to this  activity.

      Results of the polling from PRIOR to this abuse will be posted soon.

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