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%
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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
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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
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20%
State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
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November 02, 2015 12:32 PM UTC
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One more time, very little credit goes to Gardner for his victory which actually wasn't all that narrow in a state where the margin in statewide races is often pretty small. It wasn't his skillful lying that got him to the Senate. He got handed that victory by an awful, clueless campaign on the part of Senator Udall.
If Gardner's campaign is being used as a model, the model must be to hope for an opponent whose team is a clueless as Udall's. One that will completely fail to show their candidate in an appealing light in favor of a laser like emphasis on scolding your candidate on a single issue as if that's all they've got to the point of becoming tedious and exasperating to their own supporters much less anyone else.
Not only do I disagree, I'm starting to consider your tedious Udall bashing as another undeserved win for Cory Gardner. Udall wasn't a great campaigner but he wasn't that bad, and Gardner's lies matter much more to me than Udall being stiff.
You should check your contempt to make sure it's not playing into the GOP's strategy, especially if you consider yourself pro choice. And I think you do.
I've had this same argument with BC, but I know where he/she is coming from. I don't completely blame Udall but we need to admit his campaign was weak and he didn't know how to deal with Cory's lies.
We can't agree on everything. I attended several Udall events and witnessed the frustration of veteran boots on the ground volunteers trying to tell them they needed some positive ads and being blown off. Udall is a charming man, an outdoorsy Colorado guy and we wanted to see some of that grinning fourteener summiting Udall in some ads. We knew Colorado voters eat that stuff up.
We were the ones going door to door and knew that, even among women, the one note campaign wasn't going over. They stuck with it because they felt that was the way to get the all important Colorado women's vote. We were talking to Colorado women, mainly registered Dem and unaffiliated, who were telling us they weren't one issue votes and were more concerned about the economy. They felt they weren't hearing anything about that. Remember, most voters, even registered Dems, are pretty low info and not rabidly partisan.
We knew we were going to lose long before it happened. The ads were driving the numbers in the wrong direction. The expert ops thought they knew better than us bumpkins. They didn't. They didn't know their asses from hot rocks. But the buck stops with Udall. It was his team.
PS. Playing victim and always blaming everything on the sneaky tactics of the mean Rs is hardly a winning attitude. It concedes all the power to the mean Rs and throws in the towel. Nothing the Dem could have done in the face of those mean R bullies. I don't buy that. Far better to recognize that we don't have to be victims. There's no law of physics saying Rs get to be the bullies and we have to settle for defense.
Udall was among the many Dems who didn't want to discuss the positives of the Obama economy so far and what could be achieved going forward because they didn't want to touch anything Obama with a ten foot pole, tacitly buying in to all the R criticism of Obama as an economic destroyer against all the actual evidence. Romanoff was just as bad with his let's demand a balanced budget opener. The old DLC I'm almost just like an R approach from another era with another political landscape, now long gone. They both lost. They weren't helpless victims. They based their campaigns on losing messaging.
Agreed – there was about 0, nada, zip mentioned about the Colorado economy from Udall & Co. – sure, a Senator doesn't have much to do with his state's economic success of failure, but for crying out loud, couldn't have Udall at least have said something to the effect "are you better off now than you were four years ago, and answered, yes: unemployment is down, housing prices have rebounded, etc.
Instead we got a lot of narrow, disjointed special interest focused messaging – on yes, important issues, but ultimately a muddled message that was not uplifting. And contrasted to that blinding smile and shiny suits – voters when with shiny happy people.
I'm still feeling our collective pain, BC. The campaign was a train wreck – and utterly, unnecessarily so. He had 20 achievements to trumpet for every lie falling from his opponent's mouth.
Too bad you weren't running the campaign.
Fake loves fake.
It's now clear to me that Gardner's philosophy is that the best defense is a strong offense.
He accuses others of applying a double-standard regarding attendance, when that is precisely what he is doing.
Just like he accused Udall of running away from his record and trying to change the subject in response to Eli Stokols' questioning about his support for Personhood.
Gotta give Con Man Cory credit. He could sell the Brooklyn Bridge to a New Yorker.
The best defense is a good offense, something Rs have known for decades. Look at the Bush/Kerry election. You know there are all these stories circulating about how your guy, an America love it or leave it full throated supporter of the Vietnam war, got into a safe as houses champaign national guard unit courtesy of his daddy, didn't even bother to keep his commitment there and got away with it. The opponent won bronze and silver stars in Vietnam. Uh-oh. What do you do? No problem. Attack the genuine war hero, twist his record, spread lies, turn it into a liabilty while at the same time distracting attention from your guy's sorry ass service record. Hey, it works. Especially when a cooperative media presents your evidence free lies versus the well documented facts as just two opinions.
The thing to remember is if you're defending you're losing, you're back on your heels, you're sounding like you're a little ashamed of your party, making excuses or, even worse, claiming to be almost or maybe even just as good, just as patriotic, just as fiscally responsible, just as whatever which is to say you're at best not the better choice, only maybe just as good or no worse.
Not exactly inspiring stuff. When are Dems going to get over the fear the long gone Reagan revolution put into them and stop playing permanent defense?
Yeahhhhhhhhhhh, dat's da ticket!
There is no honor in Cory Gardner..he is a whore for Chuck and Dave. It's all about the money for Cory….ever and always….