CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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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
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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15%↑
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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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
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September 25, 2012 11:39 PM UTC
19 Comments
Or do I count the camera guy as a podium type?
they would’ve found 50 retired people at a Casino in Blackhawk, paid them $100 to go on a bus to Denver, and handed them placards to hold up at a predetermined time. We Dems just have no imagination. 😉
Sold out stadiums in 2008, now he has 13,000 people show and that’s on a college campus.
Sometimes it’s the messenger and the message.
Crowing that Obama supposedly can’t draw a crowd here… Yet in other threads saying the election is in the bag for Obama.
26 people in attendance, including myself. There were 15 candidates. After deducting family members and campaign managers, there were two actual voters, meaning most candidates were talking to no one in their district. But I told them I was representing The Denver Post and they went ahead. Basically, if a press conference or debate falls in the forest and there is no one to cover it, it didn’t happen. But if the mass media pick it up, that carries the message far beyond the two voters there.
Five people showed up, including me. We had a great time hanging out with Stephen Stills.
Bill Clinton (then Governor of Arkansas) was at Cherry Creek Mall once in 91, and I got to talk to him one-on-one for ten minutes. It had been in the newspaper, but at that time, not many folks had heard of him.
Good things can happen when you show up. 🙂
at this level, unless your endorser can guarantee an audience, then just send out your press release — “Candidate X is very pleased to announce his endorsement from the staff of the 48th Avenue Wag-N-Wash” — skip the dog and pony show, and spend the same amount of time that was wasted here walking a block, or shaking hands on a street corner, in your district.
In this race especially, Miklosi’s biggest problem is that he’s considered to be small potatoes no-name. When his campaign first noticed that this was a no turnout event, he would have helped himself by suddenly remembering an important prior engagement and no-showing.
This twitter will have far more reach, and do more to sway undecided voters against Mikloski, than the endorsement event ever would have garnered.
talk is cheap, buddy.
“We thought the other side was doing the inviting”. I’m one of Joe’s most vocal cheerleaders and I have two family members who are firefighters. This is an event I ABSOLUTELY would have scheduled my week around, had I known about it.
This is not a reflection of Joe’s ability to be a great Congressman. This is a reflection of a misunderstanding about who was going to publicize the event, I’m sure. Someone will get chastised, someone will learn from it, and life will go on.
In the meantime, thank you to Joe for being on the side of public safety personnel!
“We thought the other side was doing the inviting”. I’m one of Joe’s most vocal cheerleaders and I have two family members who are firefighters. This is an event I ABSOLUTELY would have scheduled my week around, had I known about it.
This is not a reflection of Joe’s ability to be a great Congressman. This is a reflection of a misunderstanding about who was going to publicize the event, I’m sure. Someone will get chastised, someone will learn from it, and life will go on.
In the meantime, thank you to Joe for being on the side of public safety personnel!
Note to self: No more caffiene after noon.
Hands up if you have any interest in political press conferences that don’t involve either the POTUS announcing new policy or someone’s first response to a major scandal?
Maybe he should have tweeted the endorsement at the reporter instead.
Probably some campaign staffer going down the checkboxes of how to announce an endorsement, who forgot to do a “does spending the candidate’s time on this event help the campaign?” gut-check. They could have taken some photos in the campaign office without all the hoopla, then sent Joe out canvassing as Diog suggested.
Hands up if you have any interest in political press conferences that don’t involve either the POTUS announcing new policy or someone’s first response to a major scandal?
Maybe he should have tweeted the endorsement at the reporter instead.
Probably some campaign staffer going down the checkboxes of how to announce an endorsement, who forgot to do a “does spending the candidate’s time on this event help the campaign?” gut-check. They could have taken some photos in the campaign office without all the hoopla, then sent Joe out canvassing as Diog suggested.
Maybe this whole thing was orchestrated to just get the Coffman tracker there alone. (Someone forgot to tell Kurtis Lee though.)
Joe may not be running a high profile campaign, but in the part of the 6th that used to be the 7th, he may not need to. My mom lives out there and she says all of her neighbors are livid that they’ve been saddled with that Teapublican SOB. They’re all voting AGAINST Coffman,even if they wouldn’t know Joe if he passed them on the street. The best thing Joe can do for himself (if any of his staff is reading this) is promise to continue the grocery store meet-and-greets that Ed did. People, especially older people out there loved those.
But I note Kurtis Lee never, ever wastes a chance to bash Joe Miklosi. Sometimes he is willing to play loose with facts to do so. I don’t think Lee is a good reporter at all.
Back to the schadenfreude…