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December 01, 2005 09:00 AM UTC

Jerry Kopel on Visibility

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  • by: Colorado Pols

One of Colorado’s elder statesmen: 22-year veteran Rep. Jerry Kopel (D), father of the research director at the Independence Institute Dave Kopel, offers his take on GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Holtzman’s surprising resiliency coming out of the recent elections in the latest Colorado Statesman.

Kopel articulates a much better sense of what Holtzman has managed to accomplish so far than we’ve seen in the press lately. Which makes us pretty sure that he, unlike some people, looks at the Big Line and doesn’t immediately think “subversion.”

Marc Holtzman: The Republican candidate with fire in the belly. I won races I was supposed to lose when I had fire in the belly. Holtzman is obsessed 24 hours, seven days a week, with winning. He is tackling one problem at a time, rather than looking ahead to the general election. That is smart.

He is no longer Marc Who? His first problem was visibility and his opposition to Referendum C and D and his appearances in the campaign ads and community debates gave him statewide visibility. Ref. C won, but so did Holtzman. I suspect he is nearly even with Congressman Bob Beauprez in visibility.

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  1. Wow… Kopel surprised me with this particular editorial.  This is definatly indicative of some real movement in the race, and is right up there with that cool editorial from Mike Littwin back in October – where he said Holtzman is the smarter one between he, both ways Bob and Owens.

  2. Dick (voyageur) – I love ya man, but you’re starting to freak me out. I’m usually on this thing in the pm… but you seem to always be here.  (Connie Rice keeps me real busy, ya know.) When do you find the time to take all your meds.?

  3. Aw come on Dick, you know, Meds… Those crunchy, vitamin looking things we keep sneaking in your pieces of bread and cheese. The stuff that makes you feel better when you trying to walk off a heart attack you tough old bird.

  4. Does anyone have any concrete numbers to support Kopel’s assertion that Holtzman is nearly even with BB in visibility?

    BB is a sitting Congressman who has already won 2 elections. Holtzman upped his visibility during C&D a bit but those commercials didn’t run for very long and now the C&D campaign is over.

    BB is operating with an incumbents advantage in the Gov’s race because he can use his office to gain press coverage and raise his profile.

    I question whether or not Holtzman ever really gained that much on BB in terms of visibility and if he did I doubt that he can maintain that.

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