President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
July 15, 2008 10:21 PM UTC
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Use of “Boulder Liberal” is not something I support in general, but if Dick wants to use that as a selling point for Schaffer, let him.
However, to use it in a formal press release, that many times? It doesn’t solidify it as effective, in fact, it makes the phrase seem more novel.
how a press release from the campaign quotes the campaign manager.
just plain silly.
than quoting the candidate.
From a communications perspective, this entire press release was completely ruined by the repetitive use of “Boulder Liberal.” The “positive” information the Schaffer campaign was trying to get across (namely, the campaign’s view that the fundraising gap is rapidly closing) was totally overcome by the distracting use of this repetitive title. The release is a failure…
…UNLESS the Schaffer campaign didn’t really care about the figures, and was instead using the financial information as an excuse to issue a release using the “Boulder Liberal” label over and over in an attempt to get it to stick (Wadhams has used it widely recently, almost as if he ran a “find/replace” and swapped “Boulder Liberal” in for “Congressman” in all instances). If that’s the case, then the release is both ineffective AND pathetic.
Repetitive use of the phrase is just an indication of the desperation Wadhams and Schaffer have. No effort at in depth discussion of issues, just labeling. I imagine there are a few who are swayed by it. But very few. Sort of like how the Daily Sentinel editorial page editor, Bob Silbernagel, uses any lame excuse to bash Democrats. The approach may work if you are trying out for a partisan high school cheerleading position but after so much of it they just look goofy and lose all credibility in the community and everyone doubts all they say. Much like the blind rooster crowing at midnight.
Dick Wadhams seems like he’s acting out the movie “Election” in real life. Talk about your high-school antics.
“Methinks thou dost protest too much” comes to mind.
Perhaps the news media can simply refer to Mark Udall as “B.L. Udall” for short.
…if it used the phrase “Bob Macaca Enabler Schaffer” in every reference to the candidate? Just wonderin’…
for this on the FEC site but can’t find it. Anyone have any hints/links??
Senate reports are filed on paper to the Secretary of the Senate which then sends them to the FEC where they scan it and data enter it by hand. So it always has a long lag.
Good to know.
The City of Boulder is equally brain dead in their candidate financial reports – the candidates send in excel files that are printed and scanned and put up as the scanned image.
They know exactly what they’re doing keeping it the way it is. This is one of the reforms that were blocked in the Senate when the Democrats “took over” (if 50+Joe is a takeover…). So they can’t blame “haven’t gotten around to it yet”.
If Mark Udall is a liberal then I’m out in Dennis Kucinich la-la land. Udall could run as a RINO (what Schaffer is pretending to be).
Udall has consistently had a very moderate voting record, unlike Schaffer who was far right. On enviro issues, Udall tends to be more liberal–so that is where they are going to pick a fight. Notice the news coverage about the debate talking about how it was all about energy.
He’s more extreme than Dick Cheney! And DICK Wadman’s press release doesn’t help clam their image down of two raving right-wing ideologues.
But, as many of us have pointed out many times before, Schaffer fails to realize that his divisive and vial campaign tactics is what will keep him in the 30’s, so he’ll just let the crap flow!
I think people on this board are too close to the action. The moniker, when seen by the average Joe voter 10 times by election day, is going to pop to mind when reading the ballot.
If Wadhams sucks so bad, why is Daschle a private citizen?
Better to ask George Allen why he’s a private citizen instead of the Republican nominee for president this year. Wadhams’ glory days are behind him.
Allen is out because he made a racist comment. Surely you don’t think Wadhams scripted his to be a racist . . .
is out because his campaign was run so narrowly and so poorly and based on the same kind of name-calling and red-meat for the base that he had no reservoir of goodwill to recover from a gaffe. Candidates say crap like that all the time. Only Allen, with the help of Wadhams, saw it snowball to end his chances at the presidency.