As posted here yesterday, supporters of this year’s version of a tough abortion ban ballot measure have submitted their petition signatures. The problem is that they submitted only barely enough signatures to technically qualify for the ballot–based on the usual percentage of signatures rejected by the Secretary of State in the course of verification, proponents’ margin of only 4,000 votes or so will not be nearly enough.
CD-4 candidate Cory Gardner probably wishes he had known that before going on the record:
Proudly declared. But remember, this is essentially the same “eggmendment” that failed in 2008 by the widest margins of any ballot initiative in recent memory. It’s the anti-abortion measure so hardcore that ardently conservative Senate candidate Bob Schaffer couldn’t support it. As much as Cory Gardner’s support for “personhood” may help with some GOP primary voters, it’s going to hurt him badly in the general election–even the amazingly tone-deaf Schaffer understood this.
At this point, having made his bed to lie in, Gardner had better hope those 80,000 signatures are as good as gold–the only thing worse than becoming the public face of a divisive issue campaign is doing so just before it crashes and burns. But either way, the TV spots aren’t going to be pretty.
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I think the long, extended trainwreck answer to that question is going to be fun to watch.
The guy is so shallow.
Gardner winning the primary means Markey wins the general. So go Cory!!!
Especially in Morgan, Weld and all of the other Eastern Plains counties where Gardner needs to get votes in the CD-4 GOP primary?
Schaffer knew this kind of messaging wasn’t going to work in a statewide general election, but maybe Gardner is trying to make sure he has the best conservative credentials for the primary.
The question isn’t even how the eggmendment did in CD-4, it’s how it did among the generally conservative Republican voters of the district who will dominate the GOP primary — and I’d guess it had a healthy majority of that group. Come the general, however, the statement will haunt Cory. Remember, all those eastern plains counties add up to just 15 percent of the vote in a district dominated by just just Front Range Counties: Weld, Larimer and (northern) Boulder.
Team Markey is taking notes and eagerly awaiting the general election. So are the pro-choice soccer moms of Boulder-Weld-Larimer.
The Ardy39 sig misled me, so I was actually agreeing with RSB.
The horror, the horror 😉
since they are all triguardian.
On everything but the name! 🙂
…In every single county in Colorado.
Baca
No 58.7% 1,192
Yes 41.2% 836
Bent
No 68.5% 1,286
Yes 31.4% 590
Cheyenne
No 58.2% 626
Yes 41.7% 448
Crowley
No 63.2% 940
Yes 36.7% 547
Elbert
No 64.9% 8,217
Yes 35.0% 4,433
Kiowa
No 60.8% 484
Yes 39.1% 311
Kit Carson
No 64.0% 2,094
Yes 35.9% 1,173
Larimer
No 73.7% 111,310
Yes 26.2% 39,614
Las Animas
No 64.5% 4,107
Yes 35.4% 2,252
Lincoln
No 65.8% 1,442
Yes 34.1% 749
Morgan
No 66.1% 6,495
Yes 33.8% 3,324
Otero
No 65.3% 4,957
Yes 34.6% 2,623
Phillips
No 60.1% 1,214
Yes 39.8% 803
Prowers
No 63.0% 2,753
Yes 36.9%1,613
Sedgwick
No 67.3% 855
Yes 32.6% 415
Washington
No 61.9% 1,486
Yes 38.0% 912
Weld
No 68.0% 68,957
Yes 31.9% 32,442
Yuma
No 61.7% 2,634
Yes 38.2% 1,630
Adams
No 72.7% 108,941
Yes 27.2% 40,828
Arapahoe
No 74.5% 166,846
Yes 25.4% 56,816
http://data.denverpost.com/ele…
Cory Gardner is a moron for hitching his wagon to this failed, idiotic policy.