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(R) Somebody
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Governor
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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
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Sec. of State
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
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40%
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State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
40%
40%
30%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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October 20, 2010 03:47 PM UTC
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I have Google ads pointing to my ColoradoBallot site for the following words, so any search in Colorado against those words will show below. The number is the number of impressions which is the number of times those words appeared in a search. Total is for yesterday only. So it’s a snapshot of how many people are looking up what.
Clearly Bennet/Buck is by far the race that most people are looking up on the web. And next is the challangers for the 3 less well known state positions. Also interesting (not in the numbers I pulled) is most terms I get about a 5% click through rate, but for Stan Garnett & Bernie Buescher it’s 20% – no idea why.
are actually reading the content on your site.
I checked it out to see who you were supporting for AG, and almost had a heart attack when I saw an X in the box next to Suthers (and Maes for Gov).
I get that the X means don’t vote for this candidate, but it could be a bit confusing for someone trying to quickly fill out a ballot or self-help election cheat sheet. Usually a check mark or X implies support on a ballot.
I think they are reading it – average time on site is over 6 minutes and 6.9 page views.
Based on my viewing a similar site you had in the primary season that the prevalence of searches for Buck over Bennet would be a good thing for Buck.
Is that how you read it?
My initial guess on that is it is due to his comments on Meet the Press. So I’d say this is not a good sign for Buck – moderates heard his comment about gays, etc. and are now looking for more info.
As they find that additional info I think they’ll find Bennet’s moderate stance much closer to them than Buck’s very conservative stance. So no, I don’t think this is good for Buck.
Very insightful data!
Thank you David!
It’s also funny the searches for Buescher appear to be mostly for a misspelled version of his name. Not a lot of interest in Cary Kennedy, is there?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Maxims for Revolutionists, George Bernard Shaw
and
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man.
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire.
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling
Or was it GBS’s endorsement?
http://coloradopols.com/diary/…
I think you misunderstood the question.
It always is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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High Beck information, low on facts!
They just run with Beck emotion and have no idea what is real. One day they will discover that Beck has conned them all the way to his bank account!
Has anyone ever determined how much money the veterans received from his ‘honor’ rally, after the rally expenses? If what went to the veterans was sizable, there would have been headlines pushing it. If they are there, I have somehow missed them.
Denver Post discusses Ross-a-roni’s negotiations.
And clearly, Dan likes living off other people’s money.
Maes is a diversion, a decoy. As long as Republicans/media are talking about how horrible Maes is, nobody is vetting Tancredo. I think that Tancredo, Wadhams and Maes are friendly. I think that attention on Maes is a godsend for the repubs…who are committed to Tancredo.
There have been no anti-Tancredo ads; there have been only anti-HIckenlooper ads. What the Hick doesn’t understand is that refuting lies is not the same thing as running negative ads.
Tommy is getting a pass….slick as snot. Nobody is asking him any questions at all:
These are the questions I have:
1) The history of emotional illness….what is Tancredo’s mental status now? His rigidity towards people who he claims are “different” ..not “aculturated”…don’t share American values….Miami is a third world city, everybody should speak English, bomb Mecca, etc. It is the rigidity which is of concern to me. A history of emotional illness should not be a disqualifier…..hiding it or obscuring the treatment could be.
2) Tancredo has never worked in the so-called “free market place.” He has been in various government positions or non-profits positions his whole life. So what business experience does he actually bring to the office which would let him “create jobs?”
3) Tancredo has spelled out some things he would do…
-Cut $250,000,000 from mediaid. He needs to specify what programs would be eliminated and what impact that would have.
4) Tancredo has said that he would “stop illegal immigration”….he needs to spell out how he would do that, legally.
5) What interests fund the Independence Institute?
I don’t think that Tancredo can be dismissed. I think he probably is going to be the next governor in Colorado…unless the Tancredo is confronted……
Disclaimer: I don’t take SOMA and I don’t respond to bj.
I think you’re on to something here, dwyer. Blogs are ignoring Tancredo, ads and 527s’ are ignoring him, and Hick is ignoring him. Yet, he’s the front runner. At this point, it’ time to draw some distinctions and fast.
Except that he’s not, he’s 5-11 points behind Hickenlooper, based on the two most recent polls out this week.
Maes and Tancredo hate each other, though that doesn’t rule out Maes being an unwitting dupe in the scenario Dwyer describes. But Dwyer’s right about one thing, if someone’s going to sneak up on conventional wisdom during this wave year, it will likely be Tancredo.
between him and Maes, not Hickenlooper. Sorry I confused you.
The front-runner in a race for second-place is still a loser. That said, the concerns Dwyer raises are valid — the Hickenlooper campaign, it looks like, is assuming “everyone knows” how crazy Tom Tancredo is. This might not be the year to rest on that assumption.
Glad we’re all clear on it now.
Tancredo may be “the loser” but it seems he is the opponent that is running closest to Hickenlooper. Thus my and dwyer’s points.
The Dems need to focus their fire on him and are currently at a loss for how to do so. It appears they are running on the theory that he and Maes will split out the vote and the Party can sit back and watch Hickenlooper walk in. I think that’s a dangerous theory to guide a governor’s campaign less than 2 weeks away from election day and with mail in ballots already being sent back in.
Agreed on the rest of dwyer’s points, as I stated in my original comment and you have been so kind as to reiterate twice in yours.
But I think this whole situation has been so wierd that the parties do not have a playbook as to how to handle it and Hick has not been doing as well as I expected. It should be an interesting two weeks.
And asking questions is not the same thing as negative ads either.
As Maes’ support keeps dropping, all those votes are going to Tancredo. I also think Hick should be very worried.
For one thing, there are significant numbers of latino republicans. They won’t go to Tancredo come hell or high water. They can live with hick. Likewise, republican businessmen who can’t live with Maes have a kindred spirit in Hick.
People shouldn’t assume that everyone knows about his terrible history.
It would be an absolutely disaster for Colorado if he somehow slips under the radar screen. Hickenlooper can’t do it himself because of his (naive) promise to run only positive ads. Tancredo should be getting the full Ken Buck treatment based on his past stomach-churning antics.
from NY Times
I hope it can continue. Yesterday particularly was pretty nasty, beginning with the first post of the day.
Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
Here’s hoping!
Re: your quite rare forays into vulgar invective:
In a vulgar age, only the person of known refinement retains the power to shock.
–William F. Buckley Jr.
(to avoid all doubt, please consider this as a compliment.)
thanks for the backhanded compliment. 🙂
(can’t believe you’re quoting WF Buckley….)
Took National Review for many years.
I’ve read all his Blackford Oakes books and many others. A few years ago, I reread all the Oakes books, in Chronological order. I still had most but got the ones I had mislaid from the library. What a lovely writer. If you read nothing else, read his See You later, Alligator — an amazing portrait of Che Quevarra.
He had a similar quote to the above that involved the town whore blushing deep scarlet because someone uttered the word “Damn” in her presence;-)
and they’re not necessarily drawn where one would think….
Readers allergic to either/both should stop reading NOW.
Now that we’re down to a handful, consider this: In American Democracy c. 2010 we are debating fantasies. “Will the Fairie Queen arrive before midnight, or after?”
Another example:
More details can be read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10…
Cut spending where precisely. It’s the precisely part that’s missing, and will continue to be missing, until the Good Fairie delivers the answer. When invited to provide details in advance, advocates of this course on this site reply by saying:
For those braced for more factual analysis, a look at the Tory budget cuts in Jolly Olde might also be of interest. One detail: in an effort to reduce spending, the Conservatives plan to reduce the Royal Navy to the smallest size since … Henry VIII.
So, there are those would urge that we step, none too gingerly, into an undefined Utopia where spending is reduced but no one minds. Once there….?
from The Cranky Product Manager
Booth babes are what makes a software conference worthwhile…
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo…
Punch line: My dog got welfare because “my Dog is black, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and has no frigging clue who his Daddy is.” Email sent by the Virginia Beach Republican Party chair. Explanation: I was getting familiar with the internet and forwarded this email without reading it. Result: Virginia Beach Republican party chair was forced to resign 2 weeks before the election. That’s gonna leave a mark….
To be clear: not all cons are racists, but a whole lot of them are. I’ve seen the emails that got passed around courtesy of some of my Republican in-laws, and the jokes were right up this alley.
a conservative co-worker of mine loves to get my goat by sending those e-mails to me. He killed two birds with one stone with an e-mail about Hillary and Barack during the 2008 primary.
The email in question is the kind of thing I received in the past from my former sister-in-law. That is, until I told her that I didn’t share her views, did not find this stuff funny at all, and asked her to stop sending it to me. My former sister-in-law then told me to kiss her a$$ and that she never wanted to hear from me again. No problem! (well, at least on the second part…)
Here are a few links to support the racist crap e-mails that were sent around.
More On The Now Infamous E-Mail
Second Racist E-Mail
Beach GOP Chairman [quits]
I’ll take that as a compliment. No2 is close behind but I think I’m more hated.
Doesn’t even lie well.
My 93 year old mother knows what “Forward” means.
Not that she wants to know.
🙂
I know, not fair – you can’t fit all that on your hand.
“Where does it say that in the Constitution?”
She’s so dumb.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …”
Joe Miller’s Alaska security detail tied to extremists
Alaska Senate GOP candidate Joe Miller’s security detail, Drop Zone Security Services, made headlines this week for detaining a journalist at a Miller campaign event. Now, several Alaska blogs reveal that the security company Miller hired is tied to an extremist militia group and didn’t have a current business license.
William F. Fulton, the owner of Drop Zone, is a local commander and “supply sergeant” of the Alaska Citizens Militia, Palingates blog reported Wednesday. The blog identifies the militia’s leader as Norm Olson, the man identified last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “radical among radicals” who had founded the extreme Michigan Militia before setting up shop in Alaska. The center reports that Olson drew widespread attention for stating that Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had attended a Michigan Militia meeting not long before the bombing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_…
Why Did Virginia Thomas Call Anita Hill After All This Time?
It takes me back to 19 years ago and the days of “Long Dong Silver” and a “High-Tech Lynching” gone wrong. You’d think Thomas might be a bit more sensitive to the trivialization of lynching, but this whole story has always been bizarre.