Colorado’s hottest congressional primary in 2012 is taking place in the Republican stronghold of CD-5, pitting businessman Robert Blaha against three-term incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn. CD-5 is centered on strongly Republican Colorado Springs and El Paso County, home to several of the state’s biggest military and evangelical Christian communities. The winner of this Republican primary is virtually assured election to Congress this November.
As with all member polls we present ahead of elections, we are not looking for your personal preference: we want to know who you realistically believe will win next Tuesday.
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I get to talk to a lot of Repubs in El Paso Cty courtesy of the Vet Court…and I have yet to find a single one who thinks Lamborn deserves to keep his job.
And it’s not polite criticism – it’s profanity-laden comparisons to sexual acts and barnyard animals. I think Doug gets his enlarged ass handed to him.
who cares?
Lamborn is a bipartisan disgrace. If a Republican must be elected in CD-5, I’m ok with him not being an embarrassment to us all.
He’s Colorado Springs’ representative, not Colorado’s. And ineffective Republicans are preferable to effective ones IMO.
He’s bad, he made that tar baby gaffe and didn’t attend the State of the Union, but we’re talking about the most conservative rep in congress from the most conservative big city in America. I’d rather have Lamborn than someone who will actually do something with their blatant conservatism…
Lamborn, to the best of my expectation, has the defense community behind him, yet Blaha’s message seems to have been strongly focused on the religious right. The question then is simply which is stronger in EPC. I’m going to use the GOP Presidential Primary as a gauge, and expect a Blaha win, even though I thin Lamborn would be the preferred representative even to someone as liberal as myself. Better the lion than the hyena…