CO-Sen: Mike Coffman out

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Good break for Bennet. I don't think Coffman was some super electable titan, but he probably was the best the CO GOP had.

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It was pretty surprising that Gardner only won by 2 points. Udall ran one of the worst campaigns I've ever seen in my life (literally the entire campaign was "muh abortion".) Apparently he didn't realize that while attacking Republicans for being weak on women's health care is a good wedge issue, it's not something you should base your entire f'ing campaign around if you want to be taken remotely seriously. Totally bizarre behavior, particularly for an incumbent Senator.

I'm guessing the relatively close margin partly had to do with the fact that the COGOP is a completely incompetent mess. Their chosen candidate drops out due to plagiarism in 2010, and they end up nominating some conspiracy nutjob, who they promptly disown and are forced into backing Tom Tancredo (lol) as a Constitution Party candidate. They lose a gimme Senate race by nominating a sexist unlikable bigot. They decide to suspend democracy because they apparently don't trust their own voters to vote "the correct way." And now they may very well throw away yet another Senate race by having to resort to running a Some Dude against a clearly vulnerable Senator. What a joke this party is. It really needs to start getting mentioned in those "worst state party" threads.

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Jon Keyser failed to make the ballot. He submitted 16,067 signatures, but only 11,436 were deemed valid. He needed 1,500 from each CD, and he apparently fell 86 signatures short in CD 3.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/jon-keyser-senate-primary-colorado-222423

And my post right above yours accepts its accolades.

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Lol, this seat was handed to them on a silver platter in 2004, in 2010 and now in 2016 and the CO GOP threw it away three times in a row lol.

If I was Cory Gardner I'd probably start building my own infrastructure outside of the COGOP. He's gonna need it.