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April 26, 2016 11:59 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (April 26)

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Get More SmarterTomorrow is Administrative Professionals’ Day; don’t say we didn’t warn you. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Politicos around the state are still buzzing about Republican Jon Keyser’s failure to submit enough valid petition signatures to make it onto the June 28th Primary ballot for U.S. Senate. Keyser’s campaign is challenging a Secretary of State (SOS) ruling that he came up 86 valid signatures short in Congressional District 3 (GOP Senate candidates must collect a minimum of 1,500 valid signatures from registered Republicans in each of Colorado’s 7 congressional districts). Keyser also barely collected enough scribbles to meet the requirement in CD-1, CD-5, and CD-6.

While Keyser’s campaign is busy trying to work out a challenge to the SOS ruling, two other Republican Senate candidates are gnawing their fingernails to the bone waiting for good news; Robert Blaha and Ryan Frazier should hear from the SOS any day now regarding their petitions, but after Keyser’s stumble and Jack Graham’s piss-poor 56.6% “validity rate”, both candidates have every reason to worry about the future of their own campaigns.

 

► Voters are going to the polls today in the “Acela Primary” or “Amtrak Primary” or whatever you want to call it. Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is expected to grow his lead after ballots are counted in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.

On the Democratic side of the equation, Hillary Clinton appears to be riding a wave of momentum after her decisive victory in New York last Tuesday; polls suggest that Clinton could defeat Bernie Sanders in all five states voting today. Should Clinton sweep today’s Primaries, Sanders’ math problem is going to get much more complicated.

Meanwhile, as the Washington Post reports, down-ballot Democratic women are looking to ride some Clinton coattails in several important Primary fights today.

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Colorado is one of only three states in the country without a central tracking system for childhood immunizations, and that won’t change anytime soon thanks to state Senate Republicans blockade of an attempted legislative fix to the problem. Information is scary!

 

► State Sen. Laura Waters Woods (R-Arvada) tries to explain her opposition to creating a Presidential Primary in Colorado…all the while making it (sort of) clear that she totally supports Donald Trump or Ted Cruz for the GOP Presidential nomination. Sorry, Kasich.

Despite Waters Woods’ opposition to the idea, the legislature continues to debate a bill that would change Colorado from a “caucus state” to a “Primary state” for Presidential elections.

 

► Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is floating the idea of naming Sen. Elizabeth Warren as his running mate should he capture the Democratic nomination. This is a decent strategic move for Sanders, though it probably would have been a bigger benefit if he had said this about a month ago.

 

► Here’s a fun statement: Former GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson says that he supports Donald Trump for the Republican nomination because of “science.” As Politico tries to explain:

“I fully support him, but, you know, what I was saying is that I’m pragmatic,” Carson told Fox News. “You know, I’ve grown up in the world of science, where, you know, we do things based on evidence and on facts, and when you look at the pathway that the other people have, it only works through a brokered convention.”

This is the same Ben Carson who doesn’t believe in the “science” of Climate Change and has expressed bewilderment at the idea of gravity.

 

► Remember that “strategic alliance” that was announced on Sunday by Republican Presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich? Well, Kasich doesn’t seem to have grasped the idea, as “The Fix” reports:

By Monday morning, Kasich was already well on his way to undermining that alliance.

“I’ve never told [Indiana voters] not to vote for me,” Kasich told reporters in Philadelphia. “They ought to vote for me. But I’m not over there campaigning and spending resources.”

Then on Tuesday morning in an appearance on the “Today Show”, Kasich reiterated that “I’m not telling people anything in Indiana because I’m not campaigning in Indiana.” He then noted “I’m not out to stop Donald Trump” before adding: “I think you’re having a hard time figuring this out.”

Er. So, Governor Kasich we need to have a talk about who is confused here. And what the word “alliance” actually means.

 

► The state House has passed a measure that would overhaul Colorado’s struggling program for providing driver’s licenses to qualified immigrants. It probably goes without saying that this isn’t going to do as well in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

 

► A legislative attempt to abolish “Columbus Day” in Colorado has failed in the state House. Instead of abolishing Columbus Day altogether, can’t we just agree that we should all get the day off?

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Lights are still flashing green on legislative efforts to ban red-light cameras in Colorado, but the veto pen of Gov. John Hickenlooper looms in the background.

 

► Leave us alone, Nebraska and Oklahoma. We don’t complain about all the stupid shit that happens in your states.

 

ICYMI

► For the first time since December, polling shows that Donald Trump has broken the 50% barrier of support among Republican voters.

 

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8 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Tuesday (April 26)”

  1. When I click on the links about the HRC/Bernie primary math I get that I’ve read my limit of free WashPost articles (never got that before) but there is a very good account of where the race stands with polls, graphs etc at 538:

    Clinton’s current lead — 235 pledged delegates — is still below her post-Ohio peak. But because there are relatively few states left to vote, she now needs only 41.6 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to clinch a pledged delegate majority, her lowest figure of the campaign to date. Sanders, conversely, will need 58.4 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to win a majority.

    http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/today-is-clintons-chance-to-end-the-groundhog-day-campaign/

    41.6% means she could theoretically lose most of the remaining big races as long as she doesn't lose them all by a lot while Sanders needs huge blow out wins, especially huge to counter any loss. She's polling ahead in most of them and he's not polling in blow out range for any of them so…..

    And about Bernie floating Warren for VP.  Does anyone know of she'd be interested in being Bernie's VP? I'm guessing that with Bernie's chances in the process of slipping from slim to none she probably isn't giving it much serious thought.

    1. WaPo is really strict about that limit.

      Bernie doesn’t need all those pledged delegates. He’s launching his charm offensive to win the hearts and minds of the cursed and damned super delegates who will pull him through.

  2. Actually, polls only suggest Clinton winning the four closed primaries, with her most robust majorities in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.  There is only one poll available in Delaware but it favors Clinton as does the closed primary.  Rhode Island has two polls, one showing a 10 point lead for Clinton, the other a four-point lead for Sanders.   But Rhode Island is the only open primary, where Sanders' appeal to unaffiliated voters could be decisive.   538 gives Sanders a 60 percent probability to win Rhode Island, with Hillary favored in the other four.   Even a 10 point victory by Bernie would yield him just 2 net delegates from Rhode Island's sparse total of 24 pledged.  But it would somewhat bolster his argument that his appeal to independents makes him the more electable in November.

    We will know the results in a few hours.  Warm up your popcorn poppers!

    1. Bernie wins RI, narrowly loses CT and DE to HRC. HRC wins yugge in PA and MD. She fattens her delegate lead by another 45 pledged delegates. 

  3. WHY EVERYBODY HATES THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA, CHAPTER 586,821

    I was stuck on hold for about an hour and had MSNBC ON, WHICH HAD Jane Sanders as a guest.   I sometimes had the sound on, sometimes just saw the crawls.  There were  three main themes:

    A:

    When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie? 

    B

    Some sort of document from Bernie's camp may have used the word "traitor" though while the crawl used it explicitly, when I moved back and turned sound on, it appeared that may have been MSNBC's term for the memo's use of "aid and comfort" which is in the Constitution to describe treason in a completely different context.   Are we clear on that?

    Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie?Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie?Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie?Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie?Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie? Who ja calling' a traitor, Bernie?

    C:  The New York Times says bernie will reassess his campaign after tonight's vote is in.

    Jane Sanders:  Campaigns always reassess after every milestone.  But why don't we wait until the votes are actually in tonight before speculating on what conclusions may be drawn.

     

    MSNBC

    When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie? When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?  When ja gonna quit, Bernie?

     

    Well, thanks for being here today, Jane.  We need to switch to Indiana where we will ask John Kasich when he's gonna quit.

    1. Pretty much what you get 24/7. One thing they harp on all day. I missed who it was but heard the middle of an NPR interview with somebody in between home and store in my car saying that Jon Stewart on the fake news was the best interviewer he ever faced . He said all the real news interviewers just had a script of questions and if you told them in the middle of an interview that you had just killed your parents on the way to the studio they would have ignored it and stuck with their scripted list, moving on to the next question whether or not they ever got an answer to the previous one.

    2. Both Bernie and Hillary are playing the Trump card for all it's worth. The "traitor" reference was from a Sanders fundraising email which quoted a Clinton surrogate, Hakeem Jeffries, who recently accused Sanders of providing "aid and comfort" to Donald Trump.

      So "giving aid and comfort" is in fact the historic British legal language used to describe traitors, and is hence loaded language used by Hillary's surrogates, but is very far from either campaign making a direct accusation of treason.

       

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