Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper won the Democratic nomination Tuesday defeating a further left opponent to face Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in November.
Yet another Dem on my contributions list.
Vote Blue, no matter who!
No Republican has won a statewide election in Colorado since 2014, when Gardner won by less than two percentage points in what was then considered a strong year for Republicans. Hickenlooper was reelected as governor that year by a wider margin.
VoteBlue
VoteHickenlooper
VoteRethugniCONS OUT
Because our lives literally and figuratively depends on it!
Addendum:
Pew research says: Sharp decline in GOP satisfaction
Pew research says: 42% Trump would be a TERRIBLE president
Pew research says: Trump has 59% Job Disapproval
The NYT had a concern troll article about Hickenlooper the other day. They made it sound as if Romanoff was actually close, and that Hickenlooper could lose to Gardener.
Bullshit.
Given the fact that being considered
âLeftâ is an issue in America, Hickenlooper is probably the right choice. The aim is to rid Washington of the Repubs. Thatâs all that matters.
Hickenlooper needs to tighten up his game.
Colorado Democrats have made the call.
Iâm curious to know what @heart thinks of this result and the path forward.
Polling, for what itâs worth, has shown Hickenlooper out-polling Gardner significantly. A moderate is probably the right choice for Colorado. There are many who doubt that Romanoff could have beaten Gardner. We must take back the US Senate. Like Trump has corrupted our White House, so Moscow Mitch has turned the Senate into a one-way street. Traitors, both.
This is great news. And he now has a âWashington Generalsâ-level opponent in Gardner.
O/T - a wonderful win!
Not only that but (if i recall the article correctly) the NYT argued that Hickenloper could lose to Gardner because Colorado moved left since 2014 when Gardner won his seat by 2 points.
@ignoreland :
Edit: Oops, what I was remembering was not NYT but rather a WaPo article by Nickolas Riccardi and here is the passage in question:
But if Hickenlooper emerges from the primary victorious but battered, his stumbles could give a lifeline to the man heâd face in November: Cory Gardner, widely considered the nationâs most vulnerable Republican senator. Hickenlooperâs troubles this year reflect how the state has moved to the left since his last election in 2014.
That was the sole point of discussion in our house. A preference for Romanoffâs positions over those of Hickenlooper but a fear that he may be too progressive for the proverbial fence sitters.
Weâll take a Hickenlooper and play the hand weâre dealt.
And then thereâs the 3rd Congressional District where a five term Tea Party representative lost his primary to âa gun rights activist, [who] owns Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colo., where the staff carries their weapons as they serve customers, who can order a âGuac 9â burger or a âTurkey Ham Uzi Meltâ.â The conquering heroine is also a QAnon devotee.
Edited to correct the reflexive use of the sexist âhero.â
I voted for Romanoff, have met him personally a number of times and like his progressive policies. However, heâs run unsuccessfully for a number of offices, ran attack ads against Hickenlooper (attack ads in a primary are a no-no for me) and I feared, as did many others, that he would not prevail against Cory Gardner. Even so, I supported him.
Hickenlooper has his problems (support of fracking, to begin with), but he was well liked as Governor of Colorado and Mayor of Denver and has name recognition up the wazoo, as well as strong support from the national party. My rural community strongly supports more liberal/progressive candidates, but in this race our county went over 60% for Hickenlooper. I think itâs the electability factor that drove this lopsided result.
This popped up on Monday; he definitely needs to mend that fence.
Moving forward, we must take back all the levers of powerâŚTHEN, we, the Democratic AND democratic voters must stay involved and make sure those we voted for are doing what WE want.
No more voting them in and then letting them run with it.
We, the freakinâ people, must stay involved. They all work for us.
Thanks for that view from the ground.
Much appreciated.
For dedicated grass-roots Democrats in CO this was a blow. Romanoff would have been (and still could be) an excellent senator. Illustrates the difference between national coverage and local sentiment.
There is nothing sexist about the word âhero,â just as there is nothing sexist about the word âheroine.â
English isnât a highly inflected language, and doesnât have a lot of gender specific nouns, but gender-specific nouns are not inherently sexist.
