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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
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Att. General
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(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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August 28, 2009 02:48 AM UTC
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Complete Colorado says it has the evidence, so a link to the Drudge look-alike isn’t unwarranted:
http://completecolorado.com/no…
(They’re also the ones who posted the McInnis voice mail.)
The GOP used that rule in ’08 to unify the party behind the de facto Senate candidate with great results!
It doesn’t matter if the Republicans clear the field, or how they do it if they do it.
Ritter is an incumbent. An election involving an incumbent is always about the incumbent.
It doesn’t matter who the opponent is or how they got there. If the people perceive that Ritter is doing a good job, he’ll win. If they perceive that Ritter is doing a bad job, he’ll lose.
It’s all about the incumbent.
The NRSC is the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
And it still holds true.
sorry.
Another case of having too many candidates and too many races on the brain, and being too old to keep track of them all. To tell the truth, I’m getting worried about my mental capacity, but that’s a whole different post.
OK, let’s rephrase.
Bennet is the incumbent. An election involving an incumbent is all about the incumbent.
It doesn’t matter who the opponent is or how they got there. If the people perceive that Bennet is doing a good job, he’ll win. If they perceive that Bennet is doing a bad job, he’ll lose.
It’s all about the incumbent.
that the GOP welcomes a primary.
What is so brain dead about this is that clearing the field for the annointed candidate has been a total & complete disaster for the GOP. As a Dem I’m all in favor of them doing it – but it sure is self-destructive for them.
Neither party has had contested primaries for top-of-the-ticket statewide races in a long time — Dems “cleared the field” for Ritter, Udall, and Salazar, and it worked out fine.
And both parties had some knock-down primaries in the ’90s (Allard-Norton, Strickland-Nichol, Lamm-Romero, Campbell-Lamm-Heath) with mixed results — some who went on to win, some who didn’t.
Your underlying point is sound, though — Republicans don’t seem to do a very good job picking which candidate to anoint lately.
We had Obama/Clinton this year. We had Mike Miles on the top of the ballot in the Senate primary. We had Hickenlooper flirting with the idea of Gov and that would have been a killer primary.
And keep in mind that we Dems view the primary as part of the process. We may prefer to not see it happen sometimes, but we don’t shut it down.
Yeah, and McInnis flirting with the idea of Sen.
Obama/Clinton wasn’t a primary, you must have missed the caucuses. I didn’t list all the losing Democratic candidates for Senate and governor who didn’t have to face primaries this decade either, but were anointed. The point is, neither party likes primaries when it comes down to it.
I forgot about Miles. Silly me. The Democratic establishment really encouraged that primary, didn’t it?
but we don’t stop them. Nor do we have the party weigh in for one candidate.
ps – Obama/Clinton was a primary – the mechanism is the caucus but the selection is the primary.
the NRSC is going to be very disappointed in the results. She is a nice person but is completely committed to the social/religious conservative agenda which is not a winning formula in Colorado.
The majority in this state is clearly demanding leadership that will control every aspect of their personal lives while eliminating all government services (except the morality police).
Exactly…..Jane Norton is simply Bob Schaffer with a vagina.
Not entirely surprising coming from the same strategic geniuses in Cornyn’s office who cooked this up:
If they are moving to support Jane Norton they must have polled and she came out as the strongest candidate by a wide margin. Norton is not as bright as Bennet but she is a far better public speaker and much more charismatic.
The vast majority of people in this state have no idea who any of them are.
Norton’s in. And she’ll get no primary.
Darn, wish someone else had registered all the good ones first!
Is this the same Norton who was Secretary of the Interior?
But most people will probably think that. GALE Norton was at interior.
I thought she was the one who broke Ali’s jaw in the 73 title fight.
I kid, I kid
Nor is Jane’s husband the owner of the car dealership in Aurora.
Jane’s husband, Mike, represented the Trailhead Foundation folks when they sued Marc Holtzman in ’06. Anyone know if they ever collected on their award of costs against Holtzy?
at least at dancing to the corporate puppet masters in their quest to rob the public of its assets.
That will win large tracks of votes, much like Senator Salazar was the first Hispanic.
On it’s face I could see why the NRSC is so excited.
As the McCain/Palin campaign would tell you, there is no guarantee the tracks of votes will be large.
Why did the State of Colorado re-elect DickWad HAMS as State GOP Chairman in the first place…he is allowing this Jane Norton Coup to take place cause his long time friend Karl Rove did this type of thing in his early years as a chair of the College Republicans in the year 1973…disrupt the convention…and only allowed the top dog – who at that time was George Herbert Walker Bush…H.W. Sr. for short.
– DickWad – like Rove, does NOT TRUST the voters/people…that is who he is…that is what he did last year in the State Convention too!!
Wake UP GOP in the state of CO!!!
and the shock was greater when Stone only got 20%…of course his speech sucked compared to Wadhams which was a major part of the voting.
They elected the Vice-Chair based off of the speech which was amazing, absolutly no grass-roots or anything, just blew the crowd away and won.