Democrats Jovan Melton and Terry Todd faced off last night in their first debate since Melton won over 61% of the vote at last month’s county assembly.
At first glance, Melton’s early inroads appear rather shocking: how could a young upstart take down the husband of the incumbent officeholder? His close relationships with several Denver-area movers and shakers, however, have propelled him firmly into frontrunner status. With just two months left until election day, Melton’s sitting pretty.
He can’t get too comfortable, though. Todd really wants this seat, and he enjoys greater name recognition than his opponent because Aurora Democrats are accustomed to seeing Todd’s last name on yard signs all over town. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if many Dems vote for Terry assuming they were literally just voting to re-elect his wife. Perhaps that’s the case metaphorically as well.
We want to know: who do you think will win the Democratic primary in HD-41? As always, vote for the candidate you think will win, not the candidate you’d like to see get elected.
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Melton is also outraising Todd by a massive ammount. Todd got a headstart, but since Melton got into the race, he hasn’t been able to keep up.
Plus, with reapportionment shaking things up, many primary voters will be seeing the “Todd” name on the ballot for the very first time… and they’ll see it twice, one in the State Senate space and one in the State House space.
And that joint run is making a lot of voters uncomfortable.
Jovan has the work ethic and know how to win this one.