President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
August 29, 2008 04:21 PM UTC
19 Comments
Bill Ritter was the worst
Diana DeGette was the second worst and Mark Udall was not a whole lot better. Ed Perlmutter and John Salazar both gave far better speeches than either Ritter, DeGette or Udall.
As with other opportunities Udall squandered this one with a flat speech filled with cliches to a crowd that was bored.
Diana DeGette’s voice is really grating. It’s too high-pitched and it makes her sound like a little girl. She needs voice lessons so she can learn to mature the sound of her voice.
Bill Ritter was obviously losing his voice and that has as much of an impact on how he’s perceived as DeGette’s girly voice.
Of course, none of that should affect the message, but it does.
Reading a speech without a voice can be very different from hearing the same words.
Yes, DeGette would get further on the floor of the House probably if she had voice coaching. Heck, Hitler did it!
One reason Al Gore is such a forceful, effective speaker is his voice. Women are at a natural disadvantage, but Hillary has overcome that.
I’m a sucker for good voices, politically and with women (that used to be) in my life.
Ritter is now O fer 2, he was also terrible on Meet the Press. You have to seriously be slacking to be outdone by a gruff Wyoming Governor.
Good guy? Probably. Good speaker? Not at all.
He’s always hoarse or losing his voice when he speaks in public. His state of the state address this year was the same.
I like Bill’s ideas, and his policies, but I wouldn’t put him in front of a microphone at a large public event any time in the near future.
Andrea Mitchell, Stephen Colbert, Bill Ritter… Maybe something’s going around at the parties.
(And yes, I know Colbert just has a Denver backdrop, but still, maybe it’s got Denver germs on it.)
one of the PBS heads, don’t know his name, talk about how dirty and germ-filled Denver is? I nearly spit out my rocky mountain oysters.
Give Ritter a break. His teleprompter went out. True fact.
Can you show me some proof of that? Because if that’s true, then it’s understandable why he was so awful.
I can’t show you proof, but I was sitting behind the stage in Sec 124.
About halfway into Ritter’s speech the teleprompter went berserk. It scrolled rapidly and had nothing but gibberish. When they finally got it to settle down, they had Perlmutter’s speech up.
Ritter did an amazing job staying calm given this (still, it wasn’t his best performance).
It’s the remarks themselves. If you just read the text of the speech, it’s terribly boring.
Here’s a link to Ritter’s prepared speech.
…doesn’t cause one to speak quieter.
I missed all of the Colo delegation speaking but I do remember Ritter at the state convention and he was very good there.
But Pols is right, the content of the speech was lacking.
be related to the teleprompter troubles. If it’s true that it went schizoid, then I’d say Ritter did great, and it’s not surprising if it went a little flat. I don’t care who you are, talking to 50,000+ people is a nerve-wracking experience. Only Bill Clinton and Barack Obama could have pulled off a speech that was just as good if not better than with a teleprompter.
I would probably have run of the stage crying like a baby, or possible passed out and ended up a quivering mass on the floor as the paramedics ran up with smelling salts.
I had to speak to 2,000 people once and it was stressful.
would have really liked to see Besty Markey speak, she’s great and it could have boosted her campaign. Anyone know what the deal was?
Out of everyone in Colorado – I’d say she is the one that should have been given the best spot – she’s in the closest race.
Sitting members of Congress did.