President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
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20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
50%
50%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
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April 10, 2007 06:23 PM UTC
22 Comments
He would have taken out ‘out of touch’ Musgrave, for sure.
Not very plausible when the flash in the pan just flamed out 19 months early.
The fact that a number of good Dems are looking at the 4th is a clear indication of just how weak Musgrave is…
Dems have a shot with Riesberg, but Musgrave can rest easy as Dems will nominate either another Larimer County liberal or a Boulder County lawyer.
If you have a ” Boulder County Lawmaker” from somewhere like Longmont that is quite different. Wow, even if you are somewhere in the whole county now you get pilloried !
Did anyone else in Congress win with a lower percentage (46%) than Musgrave in 2006?
Eric Eidsness is clearly the strongest of all the potential candidates. Paccione has too much baggage and probably won’t run again anyway. By fall next year, Eric will have spent countless hours getting to know the district. Lots of Democrats are taking a new look at him too.
Eric Eidsness will be the Democratic nominee, and then he will go on to kick Musgrave’s butt next November!
the John Kerry flip flop ads were bad, wait till Musgrave starts on Eidsness. The Dems will run Riesberg, who could win Weld County or Shaffer, who has a grat Navy Background. Those are the Dems best options now, and I think both match up well for the district.
They’d have to find new candidates for either legislative seat.
Wishful thinking serves no one well. Schaffer has young children at home, and I wonder if Riesberg is willing to spend dozens of hours a week on the phone fund raising.
Democrats need to stop looking for some silver bullet answer for CD4. The DCCC has shown in the past two elections that it will leave their own candidate twisting in the wind at the last minute. It will always be a slog, and Musgrave is working a lot harder on at least “looking” more accessible.
Dems will have no problem winning Shaffer’s seat or Riesberg’s seat. Riesberg won HD 50 in ’06 over former state senator Owen by 17%. Shaffer’s SD 17 is all eastern Boulder County. With Udall on the ticket, Boulder is not going red.
The Bob Schaffer crowd drove Eric out of the GOP, not the other way around.
Eric is Colorado’s Webb. He has the Reagan credentials, the independent views on the issues, and he’s not beholden to the special interests.
like working for the disgraced Reagan EPA that repealed parts of the Clean Water Act? Like being forced to resign early in 1983 along with his EPA boss Ann Burford?
How can he claim to be a Democrat when his statements are full of the usual Republican paranoia about how he met with “hostility” from Senator Al Gore and Congresspeople James Florio and Barbara Boxer. When he follows the standard GOP tactic of divisiveness by decrying “the Eastern liberal elites.” When he calls mainstream lobbying groups like the The Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund “duplicitous” for “deriding me and my colleagues?”
Mr. Eidsness, that was all 25 years ago.
(It’s more than a little unsettling that Mr. Eidsness decided to use his campaign literature to rake over the coals all those who’ve “wronged” him in the past. But sure, he’s above partisanship now… And if he’s a Democrat, then you should definitely buy that bridge.)
He’s got Reagan credentials, Clinton credentials, Perot credentials….
In what way is Eric Eidsness a Democrat?
What caused him to leave the Republican Party all of a sudden?
But I agree with you, he seems very opportunistic. Much like Sen Webb from VA, but without the story to support the switch
Musgrave and Bush have prompted more than a few folks to leave the Republican Party.
I’m a Republican and all, and I’m sure Bush is doing a better job than Kerry would have done, but I can’t help thinking that Bush has set our party back more than he has helped it. I think that’s why everybody is happy that the 08 elections are under way….
What has Bush accomplished over the last 6 years (other than countless scandals, an inappropriate war, sky-rocketing deficit, global resentment towards the U.S., and helped elect a Democratically controlled house and senate)? At this point, I bet Doug Lamborn would be a better President. Well, maybe not Lamborn…
as an indpendent. his shift to the D side is not too much of a shift, if you look at his positions.
With both parties pulling hard towards the far wings, it is easy to forget that most people prefer a centeralist government. Clinton’s personal issues aside, he moved to the middle and was elected. Eidsness is a centeralist — some of his positions look Republican, some look Democratic. Key to evaluate his potential run is to remember that in the last election with less than $40K and no party machine to furnish workers he still got most of the major paper endorsements and collected 11% of the vote. If you go back and look at his position on Iraq, renewable energy, and water you will find he pretty much nailed each one well ahead of the popular movement. He called for a “space program” level of effort for renewable energy. Every day more effort is turning in that direction. There are some other good Democratic people. But Eidsness has proven his ability to draw support across the whole district. The party would do well to give him careful consideration.