CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
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January 28, 2010 11:07 PM UTC
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I like that Bennet said from the get go he would be a strong supporter of the President’s agenda.
I’m looking forward to it.
And why isn’t Bernie Sanders stumping for the Anointed One? Would BennetPols.com even MENTION it if he were? Zrrkkkzptttt sprrnnngggaaaahhhh reset reset reset
🙂
I told a friend that the President would do this in August and he doubted it.
I’m a fool. You know what they say about a fool and his money……
and so will the DNC and the DSCC because that’s their job; to support incumbent Democrats. That’s what AR, who is no different from Bennet on the issues or at least not enough to matter much, is up against.
That’s why the sooner he drops out and releases the Democratic state legislators and other activists who owe him support in return for all he’s done for them in the past from their obligations to him, the better. The choice isn’t going to be Bennet or Romanoff. It will be Bennet or the Republican. Period. The sooner we all get behind Bennet in a tough election, the better.
your comment is exactly why JO calls this a pro-Bennet echo chamber, and why s/he’s a little (and just a little) correct. Your comments sound exactly like Hillary sounded in October 2007. Maybe BO gives Bennet a big boost among D primary voters and maybe not. I say the jury is still out on everything about this race. And I’m not an AR supporter.
There is a major stop ahead for candidates – caucus’s coming up.
Bennet will be the candidate.
That scene is awesome, as is the film.
I’d make a list, starting with Dick Cheney, and go from there. Kind of reminds me of the Leonard Cohen song “If I had a rocket launcher”.
a Bruce Cockburn song? At least it was when I saw him perform it last year.
“Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.” -Scott McInnis
It is a Bruce Cockburn song, another fine Canadian product.
Apologies to Bruce Cockburn.
Michael Bennet has been a strong supporter of Barack Obama from the beginning. He always speaks highly of the President during his campaign events. He served on Obama’s national finance committee. (I suspect that is where he developed some of his fundraising contacts which are paying off in his Senate race.)
The President’s presence in Colorado will help fire up the Obama supporters to SHOW UP to caucus for Michael Bennet.
How did that work in Massachusetts?
Coakley wasn’t an incumbent.
Somehow, I suspect that Obama’s popularity, and influence, is higher among the cadre that turn out for Democratic caucuses and primaries than among the less motivated Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters who made up the vast majority of the Massachusetts special election voters.
Bennet isn’t campaigning like Coakley. They share similarities, but the Bennet campaign isn’t operating anything at all like the Coakley camp did.
Also, Scott Brown is a much more likeable, much more dynamic candidate than either Jane Norton or Ken Buck (more likeable and charismatic than Bennet too for that matter).
Making suggestive comments about anyone’s kids is uncool.
http://dscriber.com/home/1037-…
Creepy.
I went looking for the video.
Scott Brown said that himself during his acceptance speech.
That’s even creepier when you watch it.
And his wife didn’t look too pleased either.
They were horrified – and decided that I was no longer the most embarrassing dad in the world.
of dowry he is offering.
“Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.” -Scott McInnis
If it’s a western MA tobacco farm, I’m thinking that may not work so well
You can hear all of the repression getting amped up like there’s gonna be a white girl auction.
I heard there was 3x the porn consumption at the hotels in Minnesota during the RNC than in Denver at the DNC.
I love Republicans merely for their entertainment value on issues like these.
That is supremely disgusting of him to say.
Eeeewwwwww………
Certainly no offense taken. It was a true dickhead moment on Brown’s part. Too bad he didn’t screw up like that BEFORE the votes were counted…
Let’s not pretend that being good looking didn’t help him swing more than a few votes.
One of maybe two or three good looking politicians in Colorado.
“Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.” -Scott McInnis
His schedule when not in DC is grueling.
His DC schedule has been grueling, too.
a general election between two widely divergent candidates and a primary between two candidates who could hardly be closer in terms of ideology would be?
if some of us AR supporters show up to show our support for the Presidents efforts on health care, environmental protection, and an honorable winddown to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He seems like an open-minded type to me. JO and Sharon Hanson aside, after all, most Romanoff supporters don’t dislike Bennet.
Actually, we may not have to worry about JO much longer. I just talked to AR and we agree to dispatch Fang, our Gray Wolf/Rotweiler mix, to counsel him.
Effective leaders know how to minimize their negatives 😉
Neither Obama or Bennet seem to have that personality trait. I’m also just flat out psyched that the President is coming back to Colorado. He needs to get out of DC as much as possible–the majority of those folks are crazy. Come join the sane and rational out in the West for the day, Obama. It’ll do you a world of good.
the drunken Romanoff supporter who spit on me last night at Drinking Liberally Denver after I said, “Senators Udall and Bennet have been very supportive on health care reform”?
That comes as a bit of a surprise. I figured at this point they’ve driven away so many people they could probably just hold the meetings in Johne’s living room.
it were called Drinking Moderately?
I’d go if it were called Drinking Liberal-Libertarianly. I think. Just to see who else went.
The name is a good one.
It’s the freaky, fringy “progressive” assholes like the one mentioned above.
i was changing the crowd by changing the name
Also known as “We drink alone because we have a right.”
A good kick in the crotch will often teach the inebriated some manners.
I probably would ahve gotten in a fight and been thrown in jail.
Spitting on someone is assault. You should have filed charges.
We invited all of the AR supporters attending a Dem event last weekend to go over to a Bennet house party happening nearby. Few of them showed up.
That’s unlike the treatment I received directly from AR last Tuesday that I’ll write about later. I think the guy’s got issues.
I won’t be back.
I believe he said at his last press conference.
Okay, Sunday. If the numbers aren’t good, I’m guessing they won’t be sending out big press releases on the subject.
He used to put out all of his press releases on Sundays. The thought being that Sunday is a slow news day and he’d get better placement in the Monday papers.
in my political PR days.
I’ve noticed Mondays here are sometimes slow for news so if he drops it on a Sunday, it’ll generate some traffic for sure, here as well as everywhere else.
Obama has been a fantastic asset to the Republicans when he’s campaigning for Dems.
1. There is NO clear evidence that Bennet is favored over Romanoff among Colorado Democrats; differences in their polling numbers are a point or two, well within the margins of error. http://www.rasmussenreports.co…
2. Bennet’s “veries” show a significant deficit compared to Romanoff, most notably in the “very unfavorable” ratings. This is the one place the numbers exceed the margin of error.
3. Obama faces a serious deflation of enthusiasm among his supporters, as shown by virtually every single poll.
Today’s math quiz: Does 1+2+3 = “attend an event with” Bennet,” which will be interpreted as getting embroiled in an internal fight and in the process alienating roughly half the Democrats in Colorado (and, really, it doesn’t matter for which one Obama campaigns–someone or ones are going to be alienated). Especially at this stage in the proceedings, literally months before most people are focused on this primary contest?
Makes me doubt the quality of Obama’s own math education, fuggedabout math education in the public schools at large. Who’s been whispering in the president’s ear? My nominee: Arne Duncan.
If you could give me a single reason to do so.
Bashing Bennet doesn’t count. That’s what Republicans do.
If you want to help your candidate, you might want to consider shutting the fuck up before you do your candidate any more damage.
I can only speak for myself, but as a guy who is on the fence, every time I read one of your posts I think, “why would I want to be like THAT asshole?”
Others’ mileage might vary.
that’s how I feel every time I tell JO the same thing you just said. And I want AR to be competitive here, and I want Bennet to have to show he was worth being appointed, and I hate having Senators appointed for us.
are just not paying attention.
AR has 8 years of legislative experience.
He’s not taking PAC/special interest money this time.
He would have voted for cramdown.
He would have started HCR negotiations with single payer, not on the 50 yard line.
AR is the underdog.
AR is not Bennet.
And he’s just so darn cute.
Although in this case you get the right answer for the wrong reason (which sometimes happens in math).
I think it’s unwise for Obama to get involved here, unless he’s quite confident that weighing in on this election will push Romanoff out of the race entirely.
If one supports Obama (an overwhelming majority of Democrats still do), does this make one question supporting Obama, or question supporting Romanoff? Hard to say.
If Romanoff sticks it out after this, it hurts Obama. My guess is that Obama thinks it’s worth the risk since he got screwed in Massachusetts by staying out of the race. Could be overreach though.
The whole involvement in Mass stunk of last minute desperation. I don’t think anyone felt that getting into Mass that late in the game was a sign that Coakley was merely taking a victory lap with the President.
Quite a different situation here. There are still a lot of Obama folks who are not party hacks (or political junkies) and haven’t really considered in CO senate race…until last Tues.
Now’s a great time for Obama to come out, remind everyone what’s at stake, remind them who they voted for in 2008 and who is clearly his favorite in the CO race.
IMHO, there were a lot of Romanoff people that didn’t support Obama anyway (eg JO and Sharon). He can probably risk pissing them off as long as he can reengage the Obama folks.
Todd
I’m going cause I want a picture with the President.
It can hang next to my inauguration stuff.
Who the hell has ever heard of Romanoff outside of a few people in Colorado?
Obviously not elsewhere, I didn’t mean to suggest that. To the extent he needs the support of Colorado Representatives, or needs to get re-elected in 2012 and carry this state, it could hurt him a bit.
In principle, of course, it could hurt Obama’s credibility just in the general narrative, if for example he campaigned for Bennet and Romanoff ended up winning. Not that I think that’s likely, but it’s conceivable.
It’s not national news unless Romanoff not only sticks it out but ultimately gets nomination. Not gonna happen.
Hint: Not enough cutsie nicknames.
then JO is the new NRSC.
That’s some serious comedy. The guy who grew up in D.C., went to elite private schools his whole educational life, went to work for the richest guy in Colorado, is getting all the East Coast establishment money and the full-court press by the President. He’s an outsider. Yeah.
Bennet is the guy who vowed to vote for the health care bill even if it cost him his seat. Then wanted to back off the second it looked like it could cost him his seat.
You want a reason to vote for AR? He tried to tackle the biggest problem in Colorado, TABOR, when everyone else stood by like cowards. Bennet is a lot of talk and standard campaign b.s. (have you listened to him?). AR has shown he is willing to act.
Bennet has some problems (and I agree that Romanoff tried to tackle TABOR, though he wasn’t really successful, and that matters). However I haven’t seen any evidence Bennet has been less than solid on health care.
As RSB said, he’s on board with reconciliation, which is about as much as you can hope for from a Senator who’s not in leadership.
for reasons we hashed out on the other post. I think if you’re willing to go reconciliation on this, you know you’re taking a major political risk. So if you’re so convinced that this bill needs to pass at this moment that you’re going to take the risk, more power to you.
but in what way has Romanoff been a particularly strong voice for health care reform? I’m glad Romanoff supporters love him. That’s great. But the effort to turn him into some kind of progressive super hero is just silly. He’s DLC all the way.
I never saw Andrew Romanoff at a single one.
And where was Andrew Romanoff when the President was giving the State of the Union address? Was he in Washington? At a SOTU party watching members of the federal government closely — people he hopes to join next year?
NO, he was at a house district party that became a Romanoff campaign event (against party rules of course — so much for respecting the party).
The newspapers over at the AR campaign office must be made in-house.
We are forever grateful to Andrew Romanoff for fighting TABOR for all of us. Nothing I say about the current Senate race diminishes my respect for him as Speaker of the House.
I just don’t believe, for many reasons I have stated over the past year, this is his race to be won.
I have a horrible feeling that the table is being set for a return of the neocons;a sequel that we can ill afford to attend.