CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
April 20, 2022 12:08 PM UTC
16 Comments
I'm not sure about this. Please launch a months-long 3rd party audit that involves transporting the data to some remote location in Montana, re-do the count using watermarked paper ballots, hire Gessler and Staiert to sue whoever came up with the results in the first place, then threaten somebody. Maes 2010!!!
Four Democrat campaigns and two of them were Romanoff? Please. What about Hickenlooper and Bennet for President? Doesn't matter which one.
I know you hate Andrew Romanoff but there's a lot more Democrat fail to choose from.
"there's a lot more Democrat fail to choose from."
Again, Fluffy, you demonstrate how illiterate you are. (I caught you in a grammatical lapse in the John Keller thread a few minutes ago.)
"Democrat" is a noun; "democratic" is the adjective. An adjective modifies a noun. In your case, the noun which "democratic" was modifying was "failure" although you misspelled it as "fail." Last but not least, you ended the sentence with a preposition.
And you are among those who scream about English-only. Indeed….
You know who should have made the list but didn't Fluffy? Gardner in 2020. Because he ran a really tone-deaf campaign and didn't listen to Coloradoans. Race decided Election Day: Tuesday November 3rd, 2020, 7:01 pm local time.
It's hard to come up with a balanced list of disastrous Democratic campaigns when they keep winning their elections.
I maintain that Scott McInnis should have won this. Both Ways looked like a fool during his campaign – the video of him standing next to the horse's ass said it all – but he lost a race in 2006 which was unwinnable for any Republican. (Now Beauprez '14 was more of a disaster since 2014 was a Republican wave election, Cory Gardner was able to take down an incumbent senator, and Both Ways – at least on paper – had a shot at winning.)
Dan Maes should get an award for exceeding expectations. Perhaps he was a foreboding for what was to come in 2016 at the national level.
Beauprez's '06 campaign was laughably bad, whatever chance of winning he had. I would say going in, he had a chance.
I might have to buy your argument about his '14 campaign being worse, based in part on the results vis-a-vis the environment that year. He also had RGA run most ads on his behalf. The only ad that was his, was him blaming Hick for the murder of former DOC Executive Director Tom Clements. A shitty ad that Clements' family vehemently objected to being aired.
"He also had RGA run most ads on his behalf."
That's right, he had Governor Donuts from New Jersey and the RGA pulling for him. And they were kind enough to knee-cap Tom Tancredo in the primary.
Who can ever forget the “Yes to the (Boo PRAY) dress” ad? I wish I could. It was 60 seconds of moronic, condescending hell. I don’t know what the RGA or College Republican consultants were thinking when they advised Bob Beauprez that this ad would close the deal, but it contributed to BooPRAY losing big time.
Rick Palacio, then-chair of the CDP, got in some classic snark:
Agreed that McInnis should have won. He had it all: tremendous campaigner, outstanding fundraiser, great name ID and favorable conditions for a statewide GOP candidacy. His loss was completely self-inflicted by being a cheap ass.
There should be a second tier contest. Something like the NIT or CBI are to the NCAA. People like Frazier, Stapleton and Gardner would fit in it.
I still say Udall 2014.
Udall wins the award for biggest disparity between a good candidate and a crappy campaign. Sigh.
I didn't even remember Maes' name until you guys started running this bracket. There's a lousy campaign for you.
re: "honestly, we don’t even know if Maes even still lives in Colorado."
having heard a random mention of Dan Maes in a different context, I looked him up on LinkedIn. Most recent posts there talk about a move to Branson, MO, including his appreciation for people helping him with loading and unloading U-Haul trucks.