It’s actually Jefferson County again, note to out-of-state reporters.
FOX 31’s Eli Stokols, tickets for Sunday’s rally available here:
In Colorado, prominent conservatives far enough removed from the campaign to speak freely and honestly asked the same question about Romney: where has he been?
“President Obama has been here so much he’s probably paying property taxes at this point,” Independence Institute President Jon Caldara told me on Tuesday. “I can’t even remember the last time Mitt Romney’s been here.”
…Since Romney’s last campaign stop here, Obama has spent parts of five days in Colorado holding seven events: rallies in Denver and Grand Junction on Aug. 8; rallies in Pueblo and Colorado Springs on Aug. 9; a rally in Fort Collins on Aug. 28, the first night of the Republican National Convention; a rally in Boulder on Sept. 2 on the eve of the Democratic National Convention; and a post-convention rally in Golden last Thursday, Sept. 13.
The GOP ticket’s only presence during that time was an Aug. 14 rally featuring vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan at Lakewood High School.
To be fair, Stokols should update that list to include Paul Ryan’s rally in Colorado Springs early this month. But the point about the campaign’s lack of face time in Colorado is valid.
Politico’s Charles Mahtesian:
There’s been grumbling about the relatively little attention he’s devoted to the populous, competitive Denver suburbs as compared to the Western Slope and Colorado Springs, where he’s made several visits to energize the GOP base.
“I think Mitt Romney needs to be here, and he needs to be in the Jefferson County and Arapahoe County suburbs, not in Pueblo,” former state GOP chair Dick Wadhams tells Stokols.
As we observed yesterday, the presidential race in Colorado has remained stubbornly close between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, even as Obama shows signs of beginning to pull away in other closely-watched swing states. Factor in the (we’re being as nice as we can be about this) inadequacy of local surrogates like ex-gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, and there’s a clear and pressing need for Romney to spend time here. And that makes Romney’s seven-week absence, and Romney’s previous visits to remote places like Craig and Ft. Lupton, seem even more like a major strategic error on the part of his campaign.
Here’s a theory we will go ahead postulate, though: what if Romney’s so-far ability to keep Colorado in contention is the result of him staying away from the state? Before you dismiss us out of hand, consider that this state’s well-developed liberal infrastructure has bedeviled both Romney and running mate Paul Ryan pretty much every time they’ve appeared here. Combine that with Romney’s propensity for saying precisely the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it’s honestly possible you have a candidate who does better staying off the stump.
One thing’s for sure, they’re going to poll the hell out of Colorado on Tuesday.
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until President Barack Obama hits 50% in CO. I think a Romney question is “Which of his sons is going to run?”
that a single poll should be viewed with caution, fact is yesterday a poll did show Obama with 50% here in Colorado:
Today there’s a different one showing him with 48% so I guess that means he’s getting 1 to 3 percent from non-parasites? Boy, Romney must really be in trouble if he’s losing some of that non-parasite vote.
. . . it’s like this . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09…
. . . in WillardWorld there’s about 99% of the 53% aren’t all that much more important than the 47%. You gotta’ be paying to play with this 1%er.
But, if you do attend — and especially if you show up with a wheel barrow full of cash — you can bet it will be Mittacular!
but Romney’s last visit was cancelled because of a fatal plane crash. Counting that one, this one and Ryan’s two, that makes Obama up by one visit post-convention.
Which makes the bigger story that no one gives a shit that Romney/Ryan stop by. In my opinion, this is worse. And I would have expected a mention of the cancelled event, since you guys posted a story about it.
Obama also cancelled a CO visit because of that plane crash. What the hell was Romney going to Pueblo for, anyway? Or Craig? Or Ft. Lupton? His Colorado strategy has been totally incomprehensible. But no more so than elsewhere, it seems. It’s pitiful. He seems rudderless. But, you’re right. Nobody really gives a shit.
the states’ monthly asshole quotient gets dreadfully low this time of year until Vail and Aspen start ramping up the holidays.
But you could have mentioned the Texas tomato chuck in–where? Lake City? Somewhere. Anyway, another influx of assholes. Oh, and what about hunting season? Well, at least assholes bring their credit cards.
used to take place in Lake County out in Twin Lakes. Unfortunately, the Texans thought it so fun they moved here. They thought it was an honor that folks wanted to throw stuff at them