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May 16, 2014 10:37 AM UTC

Tom Tancredo Knows What He's Doing

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Dog and Tancredo
Mr. and Mrs. Dog have been Tancredo supporters for years.

As you have read here and elsewhere, a group of Republicans who really don't want to see Tom Tancredo as their Party's nominee for Governor are doing everything they can to try to convince him to exit the race. But the calls, warnings, and threats from Republicans aren't working on Tancredo, who has his own formula for winning a Republican Primary that may just make him the GOP nominee next month.

Tonight Tancredo's campaign is hosting a fundraiser with Dog the Bounty Hunter ("and Beth"), a colorful couple who are longtime supporters of Tancredo. It's easy to make jokes about Tancredo backers such as the "Dog family" and Ted Nugent, but in doing so, it's important to understand that Tancredo knows exactly what he is doing here.

Check out what Tancredo said earlier this week (on the Peter Boyles show) in response to the news that former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was endorsing Republican Bob Beauprez for Governor:

You know, and I told [Beauprez] at the time, ‘Look,’ – because he was saying, ‘You get out of the race. I’ll get in.’ And I said, ‘Bob, I have 7,000 contributors.’ You know what, Peter? It’s now over 10,000 individual contributors to my campaign. [Do] you know what the average is? Sixty-seven dollars. God love these people. I’ll take their endorsement any day over Mitt Romney’s. I’ll tell you that right now.

Tancredo has always had a very dedicated and loyal base behind him, and while it hasn't been enough to propel him to elected office outside of his former Congressional seat, it will surely be formidable in June.

The Tanc has talked before about how a four-way Primary for Governor is not too dissimilar from when he won a close five-way Primary in 1998 for the GOP nomination in CD-6. Forget about the General Election and whether Tancredo can win in November, because what matters first and foremost us getting the Republican nomination — and Tancredo understands that dynamic better than most politicians.

There were just about 410,000 votes cast in the 2010 Primary for U.S. Senate (Ken Buck vs. Jane Norton); Buck won that Primary with 212,000 votes, or about 51% of the GOP vote. But in a four-way Primary, Tancredo needs only a fraction of that total in order to secure the GOP nomination for Governor. That's why Tancredo isn't listening to Republican calls for him to exit the race — he knows the numbers and he knows he can get there. November might be a different story, but that's a different election at a different time for Tancredo.

For all his problems and controversies, Tom Tancredo knows how to win a crowded Republican Primary…and that's why he's still the frontrunner today.

 

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6 thoughts on “Tom Tancredo Knows What He’s Doing

    1. @ jeffco- Nice graphic but might I suggest your meter have a peg on the negative side.That way you could peg it. I looked at the picture with the article trying to decide which of them had the larger biceps likely due to steroids. Nice matching hair anyway. I thought the bounty towel was dodging a felony rap.

  1. Stop and ponder for a moment the significance of the fact that a candidate supported by God the Bounty Towel and Ted "Let some sucker take my place in Vietnam" Nugent, might actually become a major political party's gubernatorial nominee, BECAUSE OF that candidate's affiliation with said individuals.

    If that's not enough to shock you out of complacency and into action this election cycle, I can't imagine what would…

    1. Makes ads simple. Just show these nutbags at their worst saying the kinds of repulsive things they say and then say these are the people who support Tan and Tanc welcomes their support. Of course nutbags will think that's just great but Tanc probably has the nutbag vote sown up anyway so….

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