Survey Paid for by the Bennet Campaign

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1. or a live call?

   I’ll bet he won’t be forthcoming with the results

   No candidate routinely releases internal polling, you know.

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   1. I did this sort of primary campaign phone-banking for Obama; the whole point of it is to take a big list of Dems and gather data about who’s strongly or mildly for or against the candidate, and who’s likely to show up. If Bennet is doing what Obama did, then those identified as Bennet supporters will get reminders to show up, and those identified as on-the-fence might get persuasion calls/mailings/visits. So when you say “I’ll bet he won’t be forthcoming with the results of that survey,” you’re not only being paranoid, you’re missing the whole point of the call you got.

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      1. Sharon missing the point? paranoid?

         Seems hard to believe.

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      2. What Sharon got was a call canvasing for the caucus, not a poll.

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   1. Maybe they were polling Romanoff extremists to see if any of them were starting to change their minds?

      I bet my house keys Romanoff does random polls to see where his pockets of support lie, too. They all do it.
      

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3. Candidates do polls?  So what?

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4. If it is part of internal polling – we will probably never hear about results. The way I understand it, that’s why they call them “internal.”

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5. Neither release them, and neither should. This is silly.

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6. My point is that he is probably getting bad news and won’t say anything. He knows he’s in trouble and he must know that he will not get elected.  

   He wants to see if the general population of Democrats who will vote in the primary are for him or against him. My bet is they are against him unlike Colorado Pols Bennet Pols that has skewed the debate to favor Bennet.

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   1. I recall several people suggesting last fall that AR would win caucus so big that Bennet would have to petition on to the ballot, the implication being that petitioning on was a bad thing.

      And now the discussion has shifted to something more like neither will have to petition on but…blah blah blah.

      Why are you for Romanoff?
      

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   2. Let’s stipulate that you both dislke Bennet and think he will lose; but how on earth is the fact that he did the exact same sort of caucus canvassing as Obama – a tactic any smart campaign would do – evidence “he must know he will not get elected”? Or how does the mere fact of this caucusing logically supprter you asserting “My point is that he is probably getting bad news”?

      Here’s the real bad news: it’s bad news for Romanoff that none of us registered dems are getting the exact same sort of calls from his campaign. This sort of calling is exactly how Obama won a boatload of caucuses over Clinton.

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      1. thinking about the logic.

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7. I have to tell you MADCO I’m not that important. I’m just one vote but my opinion is that Romanoff will represent the people of Colorado and Bennet will represent special interests. In addition Romanoff has decided not to take money from PACs. And before you go off on me and say Romanoff took money in the past, that to me is less concerning than Bennet who is a sitting Senator albeit anointed one and receiving millions from Wall Street. And as evidenced by his no vote on the cram-down legislation it appears he will continue this pattern of voting against what is good for the country and in favor of Wall Street and banks including critical votes on the environment and energy.  Notice I said my opinion as you seem hell bent on trying to point out dubious facts and positions that you feel should change my mind or others’ minds about who to vote for.  I will not change my mind about Bennet and many others feel the same way I do just not those here on Bennet Pols.  I don’t trust Bennet for the following reasons:

   I didn’t like his vote on the “cram-down” legislation, I thought it was economically naГЇve and favored the banks even though it ended up hurting everyone including the banks – I don’t trust him to make sound decisions where Wall Street and the banks are concerned and I don’t trust that he will help the middleclass.

   And these write ups are also concerning to me that were in the Denver Post.  

   “Bennet last week joined Republicans in warning of “unintended consequences” in the sweeping, 1,100-page bill developed by Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., which establishes a new federal super-regulator as well as a separate agency to protect consumers.”

   And in another article by the Denver Post,

   “In less then six months, Colorado Democrat has received $401,000 from campaign donors linked to a combination of hedge funds, securities firms, insurance companies and real estate interests.”

   How does one regulate the very entities who are you biggest campaign contributors?  

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   1. Have you ever actually looked at a breakdown of his campaign contributions?

      – Individual Contributions $3,877,624 (80%)
      
      – PAC Contributions $885,195 (18%)
      
      – Candidate self-financing $0 (0%)
      
      – Other $61,929 (1%)

      TOP 5 INDUSTRIES:
      
      Industry    Total /  Indivs /  PACs
      
      Democratic/Liberal $980,024 / $965,024 /  $15,000
      
      Securities & Investment $255,141 / $234,641 / $20,500
      
      Lawyers/Law Firms $249,469 / $218,189 / $31,280
      
      Real Estate $141,117 / $112,117 / $29,000
      
      Misc Finance $135,088 / $126,088 / $9,000

      http://www.opensecrets.org/pol…

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      1. She’s off by a whole order of magnitude but her certainty and unwavering hatred of Bennet over-rides your facts. Why do you have to disturb her comfortable world?

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   2. First- if you hit the “reply” button to a comment it makes it easier for the commenter to see that there’s a reply.  If instead you hit “post a comment” your reply still gets posted, but not in a way that lets the original commenter know there is a reply. Perhaps you didn’t know this.  Perhaps you did  and did not care if it was harder to know you had replied. Or maybe you knew, and wanted it to be harder for me to know.

      Assuming you are a registered Colorado voter, you are just as important as any other. The only reason I’ve asked you more than once why you support Romanoff is that you have never said, beyond you don’t trust Bennet. Which you keep repeating.

      So you are for Romanoff because:
      
      – you think he “will represent the people of Colorado”
      
      – and you are opposed to Bennet.

      I find your logic questionable.
      
      But at least I understand.

      And before you go off –

      You don’t trust Bennet to represent Colorado because he has x% of corp donors.

      “How does one regulate the very entities who are you biggest campaign contributors?  ”

      That’s a fair question  – ask Andrew. He apparently had no problem taking donations from those very entities he had to regulate too.  Is he saying that he learned by experence that he was corrupted before and that’s why he won’t take their donations now? Or is he saying that only DC office holders are corrupt?  Exactly which elected officials that accept PAC/corp donations is he or are you saying are corrupt: Bennet? Salazar? Udall? Perlmutter?   Clinton?  DeGette?

      Andrew not only said he won’t take corp/PAC donations now, he said everyone who has should return them. Is he going to return the donations he received? How about the donations he helped CODA and their network obtain? What about alt he other D candidates which he advised on how to raise money (let alone how to avoid a D primary) ?

      Sorry- you said you are for Romanoff because you don’t trust Bennet.  I think it’s AR that has a trustworthiness problem.

      Bennet expressed concern and indicated we should aim for bi-partisan regulation of banks and this concerns you.

      “I’m running for the Senate because I want to bring the same bipartisan leadership that we’ve been able to build in Colorado to a town where it seems in such short supply. It’s almost invisible,” …. said.
      

      I’ll give you three guesses who said this- Hint:  it wasn’t Bennet.

      I get it- you like Andrew and don’t like Bennet.  
      
      If Andrew wins the nomination, he’ll have my support in the general because I want the seat to stay D.  Can you say that about Bennet or would you just as soon have Senator Norton, Buck or Wiens?

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