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May 30, 2006 08:00 AM UTC
22 Comments
So, Lamm doesn’t get Hickenlooper’s endorsement, so you give it to her.
She manages to stand next to Salazar, and so you give her his endorsement as well.
The Fix says she is making it ‘a race’ so you put her in the lead, and the Washington Times calls Perlmutter the front runner, and you just ignore that altogether.
Colorado Pols prediction skills are once again taking a back seat to their flame war ignighting skills.
When was the last time you guys were right about something?
Huh?
If it appears in the blue and gray box, it is quoted from another source. We didn’t say one word about Hickenlooper or Salazar.
It appears that if independents want to punish Bush and the House GOP, supporting whoever wins the Dem primary in CD-7 will be the way to go. I’m betting the seat goes Dem by 55% or 60% even though O’Donnel is a sharp guy. Too bad he’s sold out to the social issues radicals.
Wow Pols! Another “CD-7 update” that focuses nearly exclusively on Peggy Lamm! I thought there were at least two other candidates in this race….
Obviously Peggy Lamm’s advertising dollars get her these kinds of posts, every time any newspaper anywhere mentions her name. How about mentioning the latest article in the conservative Washington Times that calls Ed the front-runner?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060521-115640-5489r.htm
uh huh…
What are you talking about? Peggy’s name is in the paper, and it’s front page news on Pols. Ed is mentioned as the frontrunner in a different publication and it’s…oh wait…maybe you do have a point. At this point I will just start referring to you as another stinking PERLMUTTER SHILL for daring to point this out.
All you’ve got to do is send along the link. Why didn’t we mention the Times? Because we didn’t see it. Pretty simple.
You didn’t see it? The article from The Hill that you mentioned last week as part of your claims that Peggy is leading was posted on Peggy’s website…And this article from the Washington Times is posted on Ed’s website. I guess it’s not a secret which site CoPols spends the most time at.
What’s interesting about all this is that for months the Lamm supporters have been trumpeting the “double-digit” lead that Mrs. Lamm has (allegedly) held over Perlmutter.
Now we’re told that it’s “become a real race”.
This is turning into a scene from “Alice in Wonderland”, because it gets “curiouser and curiouser”.
:^)
Seriously, relying on, let alone citing to, the Washington Times is an act of madness. Moonies “reporters” have trouble getting their by-lines right. I wouldn’t rely on them to get any actual text correct. As a general rule, newspapers run by insane people should not be used as a source.
As for CoPols “Lamm bias,” it seems to me the site is driven by what’s in the news (again, Moonie Times doesn’t count as news), so if Lamm’s in the news, Lamm’s gonna be on CoPols. If Ed had his name in the news, I’m sure it’d be on here as well.
Instead of blaiming a website for lack of traction, maybe people need to start looking at their campaigns.
Who cares, this discussion (and pretty much every other one I’ve seen at this site) is between political junkies annoyed that their guy (or gal) isn’t mentioned as the front runner on a site that is tuned in only by other junkies. Bunch of navel gazing nonesense by over-caffeineited junior hacks.
Drivel, mucus and spittle was recently seen to emanate from the mouth of one identiefied as, “junkies bore me”.
To you sir I say, Turn your attention elsewhere, go away, do not darken our blog again, begone. Discussion, arguement, debate are the connerstones of this great and true democracy. As we all know from yesterdays holiday, Millions have died so that we may enjoy this freedom of writing and reading. We honor those warriors by continuing the discussion. We also honor those who fought and are still here among us. It is good to honor our dead heroes (and all who fought and died are indeed heroes.) It is also good to honor those who fought and still live among us. I speak as one who fought and am still here, not as a “political junkie” or “over-caffenineited junion hack”. US Marine Corps Viet Nam 67-68.
To Another skeptic: The proper term is ‘unaffiliate’ not ‘independent’ As you probably know there is no ‘independent’ registration in Colorado. One registers as Dem, Repub, Unaffiliate, etc.
Opinion noted.
It may interest you to know that I was responding to the statement that appeared in the Washington POST, the statement that claims:
“Former state Rep. Peggy Lamm (D) has turned her primary with former state Sen. Ed Perlmutter (D) into a real race.”
Attacking the messenger (in your case, the Washinton Times) the way you have is fine if you want to caveat it with “in my opinion”. And I note a distinct lack of disproving what the Times has said. Instead, you rely on personal smears. Pity for you.
Ed’s website has a current quote from the Washington Times but an old quote from the Washington Post.
Instead of speculating why won’t Ed simply release the actual poll numbers from the Lake poll?
As a relatively new independent still registered as a Repub, I didn’t know that, and didn’t really need to.
OH, yeah, you’re an “independent.”
That’s why you hardly ever post anything that isn’t merely a repeat of either democrat party or moveon.org talking points, all the while protesting any claims that you’re other than independent.
“Methinks thou doth protest too much.”
Peggy’s buzz at the moment is the source of all this hooplah, which basically amounts to people recognizing that her campaign has gone from flaming out to actually being a contender.
So far as legit polls, financial data, volunteer numbers, etc, there isn’t much evidence to suggest that Peggy is doing that well. The fact that just a small fraction of her campaign donations have come from CD7 and that she had to pay people to get her petition signatures are troubling signs for anybody paying close attention to the race.
It seems that she’s cresting a little early on this whole ‘comeback’ thing, which I don’t really buy in the first place. Perlmutter hasn’t made any real big moves yet, so we’ll see what happens when his campaign gets proactive with the media. In the meantime, I bet Peggy’s people are wishing that the big board at ColoPols actually translated into votes.
This primary is about tapping the likely Democratic primary voters, which traditionally isn’t a very large number in CD7. Ed has deep, lifelong roots in the district and was well-liked by JeffCo voters as a very prominent and successful senator. He has the voter support in place – Peggy is fighting to chip away at it. People can get as excited as they want about the media generating a new angle on the race by mentioning that Peggy is an actual competitor now, but the fact is her campaign is still thrashing away at Perlmutter because they know they still have a long way to go.
Actually, the Washington Times is a crappy right-wing paper and the Hill is one of the top political rags in Washington. That’s why Coloradopols posted that one. Idiots.
RubyBlue, it looks to me like the Perlmutter shills are trying to hack away at the lead Peggy has in every poll that’s ever been taken in CD7. In all of the AFL-CIO poll, the SEIU poll, Lamm’s poll, and Perlmutter’s oversample poll Peggy Lamm leads by DOUBLE DIGITS. So where exactly is Ed’s so-called traction?
It looks like the Perlmutter staff is clinging to an early advantage in their campaign organization that hasn’t translated into actual support in polls and weakening support financially. Peggy is the right candidate and now she has the right staff to get her through November. Your guy can cling to year-old quotes from newspapers, but everyone with any sense recognizes that Lamm is the frontrunner.
Rubyblue: why aren’t Ed’s deep roots in the district showing up in any poll? Too much time at the country club for Ed? State senator Perlmutter was not elected senate president due to doubts about his “leadership” style among his fellow senators. Perlmutter is the media creation in this race. The big parade push for Ed on Memorial Day turns out 20 people, mostly family and staff. Pelmutter is a wealthy son of wealthy developers. His family gives money to Marylyn Musgrave and other far right Republicans to protect their development business. With Herb on the ballot, Ed is finished. It will take more than a DelPapa 527 to save him.
Lets get a hand in everybody. That helmet is not a chair.
“Former state Rep. Peggy Lamm (D) has turned her primary with former state Sen. Ed Perlmutter (D) into a real race.”
— Washington POST
Well, congratulations to Peggy Lamm, then, who’s gone from an alleged “double digit lead” to being in a real race.
“Well, congratulations to Peggy Lamm, then, who’s gone from an alleged “double digit lead” to being in a real race.”
Exactly. The Lamm shills are still talking about those polls. Are you guys really not understanding this? If any of the media or other political observers took the “double digit” polls you all constantly refer to seriously, it wouldn’t really be characterized as a close race would it? By your logic, she’s actually dropped several dozen points to now be in close contention with Perlmutter.
Double Digits, it’s time for a new screenname (although it’s nice to see a Peggy advocate not change their handle every other day), nobody is buying the polls. Not the media, not the bloggers, and certainly not any political insiders. If anybody thought that for one second Peggy actually held a clear double digit lead confirmed by a legit poll, you had better believe the headlines would be telling a different story.
Without the BS polls, there still is no tangible evidence that Peggy has any serious advantage. She has a money deficit and she’s been spending like mad, she has to pay people to do the traditional work of volunteers, and almost none of her donations have come from CD7 (this is a seriously telling problem). Ed has his cards close to his chest right now and Peggy has laid everything out there with a long stretch to go before the primary. Frankly, just from a media standpoint, Perlmutter is in a far better position at the moment.
If Ed wasn’t liked as a senator, then why was he the first Democrat elected in decades, and then only removed from office by term limits? Yep, that’s a mark of serious unpopularity. As usual, your reasoning on that one was pretty amusing. Gee, he didn’t attain the very top position in the senate, just the second highest position and numerous committee chairs? Wow, you’re right, what a massive failure. Still chuckling over here.
What did Peggy do with her brief stint in office? Oh right, almost nothing, except endorse Bill Owens and take a spot in his cabinet.