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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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90%
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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90%
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85%↑
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(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
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State Senate Majority
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April 06, 2010 12:47 AM UTC
36 Comments
That is a sweet amount. I’d say this pretty much puts the nail in Buck’s coffin unless he has had a surprising, nay…shocking, 1st quarter of fundraising.
It seems highly unlikely that Buck has anything that would qualify as surprising or shocking or else we would have heard about it by now. I think it is safe to say that Norton has this primary in the bag.
If they were even half way there they’d be posting it. I like Ken Buck but if he doesn’t have real money this past quarter, then he’s toast. Too bad.
His charisma might give him the edge against Bennet. However, as has been pointed out in the Bennet/Romanoff fight, you can’t win without money.
Buck will run an insurgency campaign and weaken Norton, just for the hell of it. Wait a second, i guess that doesn’t matter because Romanoff is already doing this against Bennet. Oh well, what can you do except voice your concern on CO Polls.
sounds like Buck better put up at least 60% of that – or what am I missing?
I am curious to see the sources, the who and how much. But that feels major league.
I wonder what her on-hand is after those TV spots and other expenses. Already this cycle we’ve seen a few Republican candidates with obscenely high burn rates. Is Norton one of them?
If you spend all your money just to make a little bit more, all you’re doing is blowing through donors without actually accomplishing much accept a few newspaper articles like this one.
What it proves is that she can raise huge money after she has picked off the low hanging fruit. Buck has not proved that. Romanoff has not proved that. And isn’t that really your less than subtle point here?
My comment is that if a lot of this was raised though an expensive fundraising firm than they are taking some large percent.
I’m talking about real dollars and common sense here — if she had a huge warchest, she would have mentioned it. My guess (and yes, only a guess) is that she burned though a lot of money trying to fend off Buck in the caucus.
I couldn’t care less about how much they raise, but rather how much they have to spend. If a candidate raises a lot right now and spends it all, what’s the point unless in doing so they completely knock out opponents early? There is always the situation of someone who burns brightly for a few months, only to burn too hot (and burn out).
That’s a good point, as is the fact she spent what, half to two-thirds what she raised all last year on a couple TV commercials that sank like a stone.
I’d be interested too to see her COH – Voyeurs such as us always want to see the real goods – but this is still impressive.
Norton spent roughly 1/4 of what she raised in Q1. Her COH for Q1 was $650K, with a total COH figure of $1.9M.
$650,000 is how much Norton’s campaign has on hand TOTAL.
They have raised $1.9M, and spent nearly $1.3M. And people say Bennet’s RBI burn is bad. Yeesh.
Well, that does make a difference doesn’t it? Thanks Red.
StrykerK2 – you had some good points above.
COH is good to know to see how much debt they’re carrying. But the total raised IS the most important number this early in the OVERALL cycle.
Even if she had only $450K, she’d STILL be crushing the Buckster. Let’s see if he even raised more than 1/10th of THAT number this quarter…
The thing is that Jane CAN raise the large amount of money necessary, she’s solid on the issues, and she’ll smack the appointee Bennet out of DC even if Obama pours outside money into the race.
They both believe that angry voters can elect candidates without funding, and without really addressing any other issue than vote for me becuase I’m not that person.
Buck’s caucus stunned as he only raised 40,000 in the 4th quarter last year.
He barely won, the vote was virtually a tie. For the “grassroots” candidate to win only half of the activist vote is pathetic despite the fund raising deficiencies. The fact of the matter is that no matter what Romanoff and Buck think they can do without money, they won’t be able to win a general unless they can put up some staggering numbers soon.
I certainly have shared that opinion.
Buck I think one gets what one expects: a racially charged radical that makes anti-immigration the cornerstonme of his campaign.
Andrew Romanoff has a cult of personality working for him. Either that, or he simple tells any crowd what it wants to hear. His supporters suspend reality. Union folks support him even though he doesn’t fully back EFCA, and he hires people that think they are thugs. He pines to regular folk, though he never has had to work a day in his life. He’s a DLC man of the year, and progressives think he’s liberal. He’s said that he would vote against heathcare in December (and the reconciliation bill), then puts out an e-mail saying what a great victory it is. He’s been heard to say that staff doesn’t matter. So he even disses the same people that suspend belief to support him. The mudslinging has been horrible from the AR campaign. Now they are trying to pretend that they haven’t done it.He himself may believe his own rhetoric. He told my best friend’s brother that he’s a civil rights lawyer when he hasn’t passed the bar in any state of the union.
AR has been all over the spectrum in flip flopping and has the anti-immigrant legislative record. This disturbs me as I support civil rights for all humans.
He’s a professional politician, so I shouldn’t be surprised that he dissembles.
I’m appalled because I thought that his character was better than that.
If Buck and Romanoff both win the primaries, then I suppose that money won’t matter that much. I fear for the safety of the 12 million undocumented people in the USA under that scenario.
was talking about their XXX donors, you know, the ones that go to strip clubs.
are outlawed in 15 states. That’s where your fundraising gets very difficult.
my predictions for Norton…Wiens and Buck are toast.
Bennet raises at least double this number.
Somewhere between $1.5-1.8 mil is what I’m guessing. What about Romanoff?
I think he got a bit of a bump from the caucus, but only his base can be impressed with his 49% showing.
Estimate, RSB?
More than what he raised last quarter, but not enough to quell the critique by Pols and others of his campaign’s fund raising.
I suck at estimates. I’m a a lot better at vague, crystal ball style predicting.
Estimate: 450k. If I’m not within 100k, I will be shocked.
Romanoff won’t raise more than $250,000.
He should declare victory (“I made Michael Bennet sweat” or something) and quit the race. Then, we can marshall our resources and focus on the general.
Personally, this part of his base would not have been impressed even if he’d managed to break 50%. Over 58.3% (halfway to 2/3) and I’d be impressed and thinking that the campaign could do something other than offer a harmless outlet for people who don’t like Bennet.
That if you post the truth about the Romanoff campagin on Squarestate, posting privilidges will be suspended.
What belief in the 1st amendment.
that that didn’t happen.
Maybe there’s a glitch but your posting privileges haven’t been suspended.
Can you be a bit more specific?
that the new owners take a very hands-off approach to y’alls interaction in the forum.
No press is bad press.
So Squarestate banned you? It’s probably because you bad mouthed another Democrat.
sufimarie LOL, I’ll have to remember the glitch excuse. Good one.
It does not require any private enterprise to allow anyone to speak. S/S has a clear right to suspend anyone. With that said, I hope they are not doing so.
I wonder if Weins is writing himself a check to match.
(whisper) Make him spend it all! (/whisper)
This guy is a JOKE of a candidate. He’s not doing ANYTHING outside of Douglas. I haven’t seen him anywhere near my home even one time.
I’d LOVE to see him spend it all. Just b/c I can’t STAND when someone with too much money thinks that because they have so much money they have a right to bray at us all day long.