Coffman Raising Big Bucks, Changing CD6 Outlook

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by: Colorado Pols

As Lynn Bartels reported in her blog at the Denver newspaper, Rep. Mike Coffman raised more than $800,000 for the NRCC thanks to a visit from House Speaker “Orange” John Boehner.

Coffman’s fundraising could be a big problem for Democratic challenger Joe Miklosi, who scraped together just $130,000 in the third quarter reporting period. Miklosi has about $96,000 cash on hand, compared to $602,000 for Coffman — and that was before his take (whatever it is) of the Boehner event last weekend.

Miklosi’s hopes at defeating Coffman hinge on redistricting that would make CD-6 more competitive, but ironically, that same redistricting could also create a competitive Democratic primary. Miklosi’s fairly weak fundraising numbers, coupled with Coffman’s strong fundraising, will likely have Democrats on the lookout for another candidate should CD-6 end up in a map with Adams County and Aurora, rather than South Jefferson and Douglas Counties.

11 thoughts on “Coffman Raising Big Bucks, Changing CD6 Outlook”

Alexei says:

October 25, 2011 at 10:01 pm

It would seem to me, Miklosi is somewhat handicapped at the moment by the boundaries not being known. Once the borders are set, and if the district is reasonably competitive, I image the bigger buck will start flowing.

I live on the border of CD1/CD6 so I could end up in the new district and have been following pretty closely. I have not heard of Dems looking to anyone else other than Joe Miklosi.

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1. Aristotle says:
  
  October 25, 2011 at 10:03 pm
  
  of any map changes that would alter the CD1 boundary. Am I misinformed? (I have to admit to not following the redistricting threads that closely.)
  
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  1. Alexei says:
    
    October 26, 2011 at 12:35 am
    
    I forget the amount, but CD1 has to grow a little. Where the boundary ends up between 1 and 6 and between 7 and 6 will largely decide the competitiveness of CD6
    
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    1. Colorado Pols says:
      
      October 26, 2011 at 1:03 am
      
      CD-1 doesn’t impact CD-6 that much. CD-1 may get some piece of Littleton, but it wouldn’t be a trade with CD-6.
      
      The major change that could be made would drastically move the boundaries in CD-7. That’s the only change that would actually make CD-6 competitive.
      
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2. BlueCat says:
  
  October 25, 2011 at 10:13 pm
  
  Coffman will be very tough to beat. He is not regarded as an extremist. He’s got a very good resume including elected experience and military service. To tell the truth I don’t think any but a very special Dem candidate with exceptionally eye popping name recognition has a chance this time and even then it would not be a great chance. If we get a better for Dems district, the next realistic chance to take it will have to involve an open seat (and Coffman is believed to have ambitions beyond the House) and a candidate strong enough to get targeted.
  
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redzoneCO says:

October 26, 2011 at 1:14 am

This is why Democrats are trying so hard to take him out with gerrymandering.

Udall is TOAST in 2014.

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1. Moderatus says:
  
  October 26, 2011 at 1:21 am
  
  They want to win in court what they lost at the ballot box. It’s gross.
  
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  1. Gray in Mountains says:
    
    October 26, 2011 at 1:30 am
    
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    1. ajb says:
      
      October 26, 2011 at 7:11 am
      
      …just like twins.
      
      I wonder if this is Libby’s idea of being clever?
      
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      1. Diogenesdemar says:
        
        October 26, 2011 at 8:10 pm
        
        involve some kind of made-up polling data?
        
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2. BlueCat says:
  
  October 26, 2011 at 2:04 am
  
  of, I don’t know what, divine intervention? And after that, if he wants to run for Senate he’ll take himself out…umm… to run for Senate. A more competitive seat would be nice in an open seat election. This is about the long term, not a desperate effort to unseat Coffman in 2012.
  
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