UPDATE 2: The Romanoff campaign email blasted that President Clinton is doing a robocall on Romanoff’s behalf. Looks like they have a link to it here.
UPDATE: PPP released their poll, showing a 6 point lead by Bennet (as predicted yesterday) 49-43, highlighting this point:
Bennet’s biggest strength is his support with senior citizens, who could account for as much as a third of the voters tomorrow.
Yesterday two “heads up” stories emerged — one from Colorado Pols and one from me.
I wanted to share a few things on both of those and a few more things circulating.
1) My sources say the “Norton as fallback Governor option” seems to be coming from the Buck campaign. Good move. Essentially the idea is this — Republicans: support Buck in the senate race and McInnis in the Governorship. Scotty will get a nice cushy job somewhere and our former Lt. Governor can step up to the plate to wave the party banner for governor. If they can spread that message widely enough (quietly of course), it’s good for a point or so with the depressed Republicans waiting around.
1.5) Tom Weins. Remember him? Well apparently he’s in this giant GOP clusterf*ck to the governorship too. Buck might be using the Norton rumor today to grab some votes, but if Buck and McInnis win tomorrow Buck will be throwing his weight behind Weins in the vacancy committee.
2) The PPP poll is indeed coming out: very soon. PPP announced that themselves a bit ago: http://twitter.com/ppppolls What that poll will actually say (and not say)? We’ll know soon.
3) The Big Dog decided to bark a little after all, weighing in during these last few hours. The New York Times (and now Rolling Stone) articles pushed him into action, believing that Bennet absolutely cannot hold the seat. Colorado Springs venue in the morning?
3.5) Whatever happened to President Obama coming back for Bennet? Well apparently it’s the same as Clinton — Obama sees Bennet’s recent problems as a good reason to keep a little distance. The last minute Monday (today) rally was shelved last week.
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You’ve already tried to discredit it, so why do you care?
The Clinton thing isn’t a big surprise to me honestly: I always assumed he would do something last minute (what I’m still not sure).
I think the Weins thing stands out the most.
Clinton has done squat.
Weins has some baggage. I don’t see him being a choice to replace anyone.
nothing harsh, just vote for Andrew, &c.
I would be surprised to learn that a campaign is calling people who voted, unless of course it was recently.
Also surprising – this is the only contact, since last year, that I’ve gotten from Romanoff’s campaign.
That said, I’m highly, highly skeptical that Clinton shows up in Colorado Springs tomorrow morning – as he’s supposed to be in Scranton and Salisbury Township tomorrow.
Bennet leads with seniors 53-41, who could make up as much as a third of the vote tomorrow.
I updated. Thanks for the recommend.
“My sources say the “Norton as fallback Governor option” seems to be coming from the Buck campaign.”
The message has still not gained hold with two-thirds of more of the votes cast.
seems like something they were pushing late to the Republicans who were fed up with everyone — kind of a “look, it will be ok…please vote” tactic.
On the first one, I hadn’t heard anything about it from the Buck campaign, so I’m not sure it’s coming from them. My suspicion is that Penry/Norton see the writing on the wall in the senate race and are trying to redeem their horribly botched campaign.
On 1.5, I suspect you are correct.