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May 11, 2012 08:26 PM UTC

CD-6 Makes List of Races That "Might Surprise You"

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  • by: Colorado Pols

An interesting assessment of the upcoming battle between newly-vulnerable incumbent Rep. Mike Coffman and his upstart Democratic challenger, state Rep. Joe Miklosi, from our friends at the Washington Post’s The Fix blog:

10. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.): Coffman’s seat wasn’t supposed to be overhauled in redistricting – Democrats were instead focused on targeting freshman GOP Reps. Cory Gardner and Scott Tipton – but then the state legislature deadlocked and left the issue to the courts. The result: Coffman got the short end of the stick. His sixth district moved from a district that would have gone 46 percent for President Obama in 2008 to one that would have gone 54 percent for Obama. He faces state Rep. Joe Mikloski [sic–Pols] in what is pretty much a swing district. The good news for Republicans is that Coffman is a fundraising machine, pulling in $530,000 in the first quarter…

That’s not quite the way we remember this happening in the redistricting process, as big changes to CD-6 had long been part of Democratic proposed congressional maps, but The Fix’s Aaron Blake is right that the district has been reshaped into a dramatically more competitive territory–and that Rep. Coffman’s best hope lies in his very large war chest.

Now if they can just start spelling “Joe Mikloski’s” name right…

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6 thoughts on “CD-6 Makes List of Races That “Might Surprise You”

  1. It’s time for Dems across the nation to step up and throw more money to this campaign. Right time, right candidate, right thing to do.

    1. If it had been Andrew Romanoff, Morgan Carroll, or even Brandon Shaffer, there might have been some interest by the national party or big donors… but it is Joe Miklosi, who has trouble getting the Washington newspapers to spell his name right.  There’s a reason prominent Democrats, in Colorado, are contributing money to Coffman and holding fundraisers on the incumbent’s behalf.    

  2. The Washington Post article focuses on the district’s registration numbers, not the two men involved in this race.  

    Coffman won this newly created district, in 2008, when he bucked the Democratic tsunami to become Colorado’s Secretary of State.  He’s represented the southern half of the new district, in Congress, for nearly four years.  

    Most folks, in the new 6th CD, have no idea who Miklosi is and — those that do — see him as a carpetbagger from Denver… which he is.

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