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February 19, 2010 11:59 PM UTC
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Am I outing Wadhams here, I wonder?
Lib is a little more eloquent than Dick.
is complete failure. He has a perfect environment for winning several federal and state elections but the the guy is still dealing in Bush era politics – FAIL.
Remind me again why he’s the first ever paid chair of the Colorado Republican party. Anything over a buck is too much for what he’s produced.
granted, for us Dems. But he is doing a great job.
Way too early to make any predictions on this one. Neither Hick nor McInnis ever has run a difficult partisan race. My bet is that both screw up big at some point.
Both Hickenlooper and McInnis are plenty experienced here. Both have won serious, expensive, and competitive races before.
What difficult partisan race has McInnis ever run? (Answer: None.) He hasn’t even had a tough primary. His thin skin has never been poked in a campaign.
What difficult partisan race has Hick ever run? (Answer: None.) He has only run a Demo vs. Demo race in a Demo city, and he won it in part by specifically appealing to Republicans. He has never had to prove his bona-fides to his base.
Neither guy ever has had to make snap decisions while being buffeted by outside groups in a tight race. It’s a whole different kind of pressure, and people react in very different ways the first time they’re subjected to it (Read: Romanoff).
You’re giving McInnis and Hick credit for much more campaign experience than they actually have.
But crushing Zavaras and Mares and Tate and the rest — it was a real campaign and it was brilliantly run.
Hick did run a great mayoral campaign. Fact remains, though, that he has never run against mean people who will scorch the earth just to win. This race will be his first of that kind.
McInnis won his first legislative race by about 15 votes.
And his first Congressional race was a competitive one against Lt. Gov. Mike Callahan.
McInnis’ first race was partisan and in a swing district that had gone from Mike Strang to Ray Kogovsek (D) to Mike Strang (R)to Ben Campbell D (when he won it) to McInnis, R. what part of winning a difficult partisan race don’t you understand.
As for Denver, it may not have been “partisan” officially, but if you dont think the parties play a role, you live in Saskatoon. His race was a classic.
Frank Evans had it before Kogo (not Mike Strang, as you wrote). But you’re right, it has always been a difficult district to win and is always up for grabs when there’s an opening.
Evans had it and Kogo won a real squeaker against Harold McCormick. Then Strang had it for a term before losing it to Campbell. It’s a great swing district.
You claim that Callihan vs. McInnis was a “difficult partisan race?” Hard to believe. It’s correct that Callihan was lt gov., but he was almost completely disinherited by his gov. Roy Romer, who did nothing to help Callihan and thus scared off almost all Democratic help in that race. This election was McInnis in a cakewalk.
As for Hick’s race in Denver being “a classic,” please name the moment when he was seriously challenged by anyone, whether at a debate, or, more importantly, by an unfair TV ad. That race was so soft that Hick emerged with no scars. Candidates who run against Dick Wadhams (i.e. this governor’s race) never emerge without scars.
Callihan helped Scooter out by self-destructing. Up until then, it was a competitive race.
Scooter has tremendous retail campaign skills. His problem is figuring out how to reach enough voters one-on-one by election day.
Retail campaigning on the state legislative level is door-to-door, which is how he beat Kathleen Sullivan to win his first election by 12 votes. Retail also works in a congressional district, as Scooter showed for years.
But statewide is nearly impossible. That’s his problem.
Just please don’t say he’s never won a tough race.
Iggie, find me one poll six months before the mayor’s race that had Hick in double digits. Then, I’ll take you seriously. Until then, I assume you just go on making up facts to cover your obvious lack of knowledge of the Denver political scene.
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Reilly’s younger brother;-)
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you’re own threads…
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
–George Eliot
So long as ewe keep you’re own homonyms in order!
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“Don’t you mean ‘Whom do you serve,’ Sharon?”
is the Mother of All Triguardians.
But hubris generally leads to defeat.