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%
October 23, 2008 12:58 AM UTC
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Is the day Dick Wadhams resigns as Colorado GOP Chairman. Who knows? Maybe they’ll be the same day.
It is not “U.S. Rep. Mark Udall”, it is “Boulder Liberal Mark Udall”.
I have that on good authority from DickWad hams.
…but this seems like a strange message to the voters at this time (during early voting and right before election day): “we have it the bag!”
That is an unfortunate side-effect of this move. However, they do need to move resources to other more competitive races where they may be able to pick up an additional seat: Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Minnesota?????
Frankly, this race has been over for some time.
Udall wins this by at least 10 points.
After all, he IS a “Boulder Liberal.”
GOP “Death List” Predicts Democratic Blowout in the House
Take a wild guess which 5 Senate Seats they anticipate losing.
Supposedly the GOP was dead after that massacre, but they seemed to have risen from the Grave, pissed off and ready to rumble.
I doubt that the GOP will lie on the ground, and let the Dems bleat their victory call. In fact, they’re already plotting their triumphant return in ’10.
Decades? Give me a break. They’ll be back in 2 years with a new phony Contract with America Part Deux, and all kinds of maliciously crafted wedge issues.
The 2010 Senate map isn’t any better for Republicans than this year’s. In 2012 they’ve got some strong races to run. In 2010, though, their best bet is to try to reclaim some of their soon-to-be-lost House seats.
I’m not saying that’s the case – but it just seems a little odd for the DSCC to pull out lock, stock and barrel.
Better to run a token presence.
this is just what i was thinking… do we really think the RNCC is going to abandon Musgrave and the RSCC is going to abandon Schaffer and the McCain Camp is going to completely give up on Colorado all at the same time? that’s too good to be true, frankly.
plus, I’m as much of a partisan Dem as anyone on here…but it really seems like a complete double standard…i know the polls favor Udall right now, but when the RSCC gives up on Schaffer it’s because he sucks and Udall rules, and when the DSCC gives up on Udall it’s because he rules and Schaffer sucks
i agree with HGF, but thankfully Forward Colorado, the Udall camp, and all of the various committee people in each of the counties are going to (and are currently) work(ing) very hard on GOTV, which is where our efforts are best spent in the next 12 days for sure.
we got this.
If Udall is set to win, then they should take those bucks and put them where the race is still in doubt. Better for Udall to win by 5% and Franken by 3 votes than Udall by 8% and Franken loses.
I’m sure the DSCC, RSCC, etc wish they could do this quietly, but they can’t. So we do get to hear about it.
And the DSCC assumes that the Udall team will continue to work their ass off. They aren’t leaving assuming Udall will relax, they are leaving assuming that if Udall & team keep doing their job – then it’s a win.
I don’t know how much Udall has left, but between Udall’s remaining funds and the overwhelming GOTV effort that’s going to happen here in Colorado, the DSCC has done the wise thing and redirected the money somewhere else.
Begich in Alaska is too close. Franken is too close. Martin in Georgia is almost tied (and revenge against Chambliss would be sweet). Musgrove could win against Wicker in MS if the African-American GOTV is good enough. And Dems want a shot at taking out Mitch McConnell, too.
Lots of good places to put that cash, not so much cash to spend.
Taking out McConnell is Schumer’s wet dream. It’s complete turnabout, and it’s gotta really steam Dick Wadhams that they may be about to do unto McConnell as he did unto Daschle.
Given that his own candidate this cycle is such a dunderhead I have to think he must secretly be hoping the NRSC redirects some resources to save McConnell so that Wadhams can keep the title of being the only guy to ever unseat a Senate caucus leader. (I don’t know if that claim is actually true, but it’s one that he makes)
on top of beating Allen —
is the best revenge for Daschle.
But you’re right, unseating the Republican leader would be an extra sweet revenge. I don’t see it happening though …
The e-mail also said they were pushing to raise another quarter million dollars for the final two weeks.
The same email said that Schaffer had over 3.4 million saved up for the last few days….Anybody else get that one?
I do not think this race is over.
Yes, Schaffer has 3.4 mil lying around apparently. I think he’ll save some of it and try to run for office again. If he spends every last penny, I don’t think it would be enough to catch up.
They pull out when the deem a race is no longer competitive, whether they find themselves on the winning side or on the losing side.
It only makes sense to direct a finite amount of money where there’s a good chance it will affect the outcome.
There’s ALWAYS this kind of shuffling in the last three weeks. It didn’t used to be news within hours of the ad changes, but it’s always worked this way, and why shouldn’t it?
The narrative is the NRCC abandoned CO-04 as a lost cause simply because all the available facts on the ground say Musgrave is losing the race.
The NRCC is broke; they took out an $8m loan the other day hoping to plug a few holes in the dam. The DCCC went in the red the next day, hoping to wedge those cracks in the dam wide open. The overall theme of this season is that the Republicans are on the defensive almost everywhere this year; they only have high hopes of picking up three seats, and will be losing perhaps 20. Musgrave is a casualty of a bad year for the NRCC, combined with her own lackluster campaign performances.