February 27, 2012 11:06 PM UTC

How Doug Lamborn Keeps His Job?

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• by: Colorado Pols

In 2008, incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn won a tight three-way Republican primary, basically assuring him of re-election in ultra-safe CD-5. Lamborn’s biggest threat was a 2006 primary election rematch between himself and his toughest 2006 competitor, Jeff Crank. Crank’s rematch bid was undone by the entry into the race of retired Gen. Bentley Rayburn, who split the anti-Lamborn vote (which totaled over 50%) with Crank and gave Lamborn the win.

In 2012, it looks like an eerie reprise–on the same weekend as CD-5 Lamborn challenger Robert Blaha actually pulls down some decent press in the Denver paper, another CD-5 Republican contender makes the news too! We don’t know anything about newcomer Douglas Bergeron, who bills himself as a “more moderate choice” than either Blaha or Lamborn, except to say there is absolutely no better way to ensure Blaha’s already-slim chances of ousting Lamborn in a primary reach zero than to have some other unknown dude enter this race.

But of course, short of clairvoyance, nobody can prove anything.