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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(R) Donald Trump
80%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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15%↑
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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90%
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85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
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REPUBLICANS
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April 24, 2018 12:21 PM UTC
24 Comments
Probably would've voted for Amy myself, not sold on either Weiser or Salazar for the primary.
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Like Mike said. Amy seemed like a good candidate who started much too late. That said, Weiser certainly seems well qualified.
Weiser has legal chops beyond any other candidate in the field. Regardless, gotta keep tweety bird out of there
I've met Phil Weiser and he's no Cindy Coffman.
Can't think of a better complement.
I think you mean "compliment."
Yes. Brain is fried.
Amy Padden's resume impressed me. The couple of things I'd read on line about her time with US Attorney tasks made her seem like a solid candidate, perhaps the best prepared for the administrative side of the job.
Hope she finds other ways to serve and develop the political chops needed for a future high profile run.
Pol's tacit endorsement of Phil Weisser seems biased. There is no picture and barely a mention of Joe Salazar, the other Democratic AG candidate, and the Big Line has been dismissive of Salazar in the past. Pols does not mention, when discussing how the AG field has been "finalized", that Salazar demonstrated solid (37%) support among delegates at the state assembly, and is polling (per Magellan) +29% against other AG candidates in the primary.
So let me fix that bias for you, Pols. Representative Joe Salazar (photo, below from @JoeforCOAG ) is the candidate most Democratic Coloradans want representing them as AG because of his proven track record of fighting effectively for them in the state legislature.
Joe has introduced laws that have passed with bipartisan support to protect Coloradans from discrimination, unconstitutional incarceration because of national origin. His long years as a civil rights attorney are reflected in his legislative accomplishments. People know that. They trust that.
He has also worked to limit the encroachment of the private prison industry on union jobs in Colorado, and to help mentally ill people not be further brutalized by the prison system.
His record of protecting people from harm by overreach of the government or the oil and gas industry speaks for itself.
He has been out there on the streets with ADAPT, with immigrants, with women fighting back against harassment, and for reproductive choice. He is pro-cannabis and has spoken out against Jeff Sessions' implied threat to our state cannabis industries.
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North East Colorado Democrats Candidate Forums – Forum 3 – Colorado Attorney General Candidates from Craig Stevens on Vimeo.
See for yourself how the two surviving AG candidates present: Most would say that Weiser is cool and cerebral, knowledgeable, competent, a good lawyer to hire if you can afford his rates.
Joe, on the other hand, is your neighbor, scrappy, friendly, straightforward, relatable.
Salazar has deep roots and support in rural Colorado, and with Latino and voters of color, which Weiser doesn't necessarily have, judging by the Magellan poll cited above.
Phil Weiser would be an OK AG. He would, of course, be better than Coffman.
But in this political climate, we need a fighter. And that's Joseph Salazar.
I prefer an off-the-charts smart AG. That's not Salazar. In my view, which includes lots of dealings with the AG's office, Phil is the better choice. But if Joe wins the nomination, I'll gladly support him. Anyone but Brauchler. Hell, I'd prefer Coffman to him.
In this climate, we need someone electable. Like Weiser.
Or
I’ve honestly got no set opinion of either at this point yet, but, if I ever do need to hire a good attorney, I’m most likely to hire the “good attorney” over my scrappy “neighbor” almost always.
MMV.
Valid point. I should have written, “if your scrappy, friendly neighbor was also a sharp, renowned civil rights attorney with a record of winning cases.”
Not to sell Joe short….
Question is which one can beat Brauchler and Weiser comes across as the one with more statewide appeal. I think other Dems have the same concern or Weiser would not have won over 50% support in the assembly among a group of sympathetic activists
This may shock you, but party activists are not always good predictors of what the electorate will think. Ask Senators Romanoff and Miles.
A better predictor of the general election: Salazar led by 29%, per Magellan poll of 410 Democratic and unaffiliated voters.
The same poll suggested voters confused him with ken salazar or john salazar. When assembly democrats figured out who he was, support for him dropped like a rock.
Shot up like a rocket, more like. From zero to 38% in 6 months.
If you read the detailed crosstabs on the Magellan poll, you would notice that most Latino voters (like 51%) polled preferred Salazar. And if you were getting around and knocking on doors in your precinct, as I have, you would know that one of the strongest Democratic demographic groups these days are voters of color.
Ignore these voters at your peril. Also not a great idea to condescend to them, or infer that they are too stupid to tell one Salazar from another.
A more likely possibility is that they know that he is part of that political Salazar family, and that this adds to his appeal. "He / she comes from a fine family" is one of the most solid recommendations you will hear outside of urban areas.
It's also likely that someone they know has benefited from Joe's civil rights advocacy as a civil rights attorney for the last fifteen years. He is well known in the community.
To quote in context from that Magellan poll you're fond of:
So good luck being Phil Weiser and running some version of "I'm just telling you, since you were too stupid to figure it out on your own, that he's not Ken or John Salazar".
That's pretty likely to piss people off mightily. So GLWT.
I can always tell when you're getting desperate by the fury with which you throw the race card on the table. I wasn't the one who suggested voters in the Magellan poll were confusing joe Salazar with the better known Ken and John, it was the pollsters themselves. You loved the poll when you could spin it your way. You hate it when it offers an exlanation for why your candidate dropped like a rock when people
Looked at the rivals on the same stage. Ohh, you claim–in An obvious bid for the Moddy Rationalization trophy — my candidate got 38 percent.
Earth to Moddy — err, MJ. Your man led Wizer by 29 points in the poll — and then lost to him by 16 points at the convention. That's a loss of 45 points between the two events!
A 45 point drop.
Did I mention that is a 45 point drop?
You were ahead by 29.
Now, you are behind by 16.
29 plus 16 is 45.
So you dropped 45 points when people figured out that your candidate ain't ken or joe.
Did I mention that you dropped 45 points?
Ohh, I did.
Well, somebody had to give you the news.
LSMFT
"The race card"? Really, V? Who writes your talking points, anyway?
51% of Joe Salazar's unaffiliated and Democratic supporters in the Magellan poll were Hispanic. That's a fact. You want to imply that they're all ignorant dupes (as the pollster "wondered")….well, the implications are obvious. And my point was that this would also be a bad look for Weiser. Which is also what Magellan said.
Most of us exist in a nuanced universe in which the same person, or polling firm, can be right about one thing….and wrong about something else. I assume Magellan did their polling honestly, and reported it honestly. It's their editorializing about the implications that I question.
Magellan polled unaffiliated and Democratic registered voters. Another fact. Not the same people as the party regulars who attended the assembly. However, you want to conflate the two, go for it.
I can tell where this is headed – you've already started insulting me by comparing me to our favorite troll.
So it's probably best for me to abandon this "conversation". Go ahead, keep on insulting me. It's what you do. It won't make your preferred candidate any more appealing, or your talking points any more cogent, but you do seem to enjoy it.
For myself, I'll debate people who don't go immediately to ad hominem attacks to make their points. (That's most normal Polsters, by the way).
Basically, you spent your last post implying that anyone who didn't support your candidate was racist and anyone who thought Latino voters might have confused Joe with Ken or John Salazar
was racist. I called you on it. Whereupon, after having reviled everyone who didn't back your candidate as racist, you accused me of making an ad hominem argument!
The fact remains that your candidate lost 46 points. — 46 points! — between the poll and the assembly . Yeah, that suggests a lot of people polled were confused about which Salazar was which.
And when faced between the real Salazar, a competent but hardly outstanding legislator, and a tru
Ly fine legal mind, most democrats opted for the latter.
Maybe some day you will stop screaming that everyone who disagrees with your often extreme views is a racist.
Or maybe you won’t.
Sorry if I don’t much care any more. You’ve cried wolf and racist so often it’s just boring.
I have met Phil Weiser on several occasions and hosted a meet and greet for him as he traveled to all 64 counties. I have been so impressed with his knowledge of what Colorado needs and his ability to articulate what he will do for Colorado. He is also extremely qualified and easy to approach. I do not know Joe Salazar and will support him if he is the nominee, but I urge people to continue to get to know Phil.
Speaking of "not backing away from a fight."
Attorney general candidate sues the secretary of state over rejected voter signatures
We have a primary between two credible candidates. We don't need a lawsuit from a sore loser mucking up the contest.