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December 11, 2009 09:47 PM UTC
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…about the big hissy fit the local teabaggers are having over Scooter.
Ritter’s got problems. McInnis has problems. Is it overly simplistic to say as the economy goes, so goes Ritter? If the economy (and state budget) is still on the skids come election time, McInnis’s best selling point is that he is not Ritter. Otherwise, as has been the case for decades, the incumbent gets re-elected.
But if the economy is getting better instead of worse, I think Ritter can make the case that he handled it well.
…a sitting Governor was not re-elected in Colorado?
Even Billy Bob Owens managed to get a second term.
was ’74 when John Vanderhoof lost to Democrat Dick Lamm, who served three terms (before term limits).
Johnny Van stepped up a year earlier when the incumbent, the incredibly popular John Love, was named to the Nixon administration as the country’s first energy czar.
of course, Johnny Van wasn’t an elected governor. Even so, I think he would have made it had it not been for Watergate. Personally, I’m not ready to bury Ritter. He’s done a reasonably good job of managing in terribly hard times. Yes, he’s made mistakes, like the Bennet appointment. But his energy policies are key to this state’s economic and environmental future.
I miss the history and analysis
35 years is a pretty long track record of sending sending the incumbent back to the Gov’s mansion for another 4 years.
Heck, I was in Jr. High in ’74.
Vanderhoof wasn’t re-elected, since he took over for John Love. It was even longer since an elected governor lost a bid for re-election.
It would seem that there is some sort of inherent advantage to being the incumbent that is hard to measure with simple polling.
Perhaps it’s an ingrained mindset to let them “finish what they started”?
Colorado is a state that votes overwhelmingly for term limits — then re-elects every incumbent in sight. When McInnis has to explain how he is going to rebuild our highways and colleges while smashing the few revenue sources we have left to smithereens — by cutting “fraud and waste,” no doubt — Ritter is going to look pretty good to ordinary Coloradans.
But remember, Chris Christie served up the same crap McInnis is peddling re: balancing the state budget without raising taxes without any details as to how.
Whether what worked in NJ will work in CO is another story.
If only we’d recycle paper clips, state government would be rolling in money, we could cut taxes, build lots of roads and fund higher education.
I can’t understand why that didn’t achieve a balanced federal budget.
Then again as Governor, he had no problem using the state plane to fly across SC to go get a cheap haircut.
But I maintain that Corzine was far more unpopular than Ritter is and that killed him. And as someone (a Star Wars fan) told me, New Jersey is like the Mos Eisley of politics.
Very true. Like John Kerry, Corzine came across as aloof and out of touch when it came to the average voter.
Wing nuts can say what they want about Bill Ritter but aloof and out of touch are two things Ritter is not.
And as much as the right wingers scream about taxes in Colorado, I dare anyone (including Libertad) to say that income and property taxes in CO are worse than in NJ.
She cut state income tax but left mandates in place. Municipalities in New Jersey can’t charge local sales taxes, therefore everything at the local level must be paid with property taxes.
It was a clever act of political sleight-of-hand.
But let’s remember that Corzine was lucky he wasn’t in prison on corruption charges. I’m not sure Ritter has that problem.
…I think Christie will also be lucky if he doesn’t end up on prison for corruption charges as well.
Like I said, Mos Eisley of politics.
Big Steve served the last two-year term and the first four-year term before losing to John Love in 1962.