Mark Udall almost pulled it out after all in CO

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What was overall turnout in CO? I assume it was above the national average because of mail in voting and the competative Senate statewide races?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think this shows the Republicans are probably wasting their time if they plan on campaigning in Colorado during the next presidential election. I know we won, but it took what is generally considered the best campaign of the cycle to barely eke out a win against a moonbat in the middle of a Republican wave. I'm glad to have the seat but it's certainly not much of a sign of good things to come.

Spoken like a true trans-midwestern stater who would like to see the GOP focus all its attention on his region.

Udall is an established brand in the SW and he was still an incumbent as well, and consider that 2014 was the best performance in terms of Republicans defeating Democratic incumbents since 1980. Colorado isn ot going to be an easy state for any party, but there is a strong enough GOP presence with Douglas, El Paso, Weld and Mesa counties to ensure that the GOP is getting into the mid-40's. Nevada is still a harder nut to crack then CO in Presidential election years by far at thatis point.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Norton would have won in 2010 because she was a non-controversial candidate (in the way that Buck was controversial) in a Republican year. I would not want to put her up for a Senate seat in 2016. Vepres used to make the case against her about her being a puppet with no authenticity or depth and he was right, but the problem with his correct point was that it was used as to why Buck should be the nominee and we know how that turned out (also there is the whole geography thing regarding Republican Senators in CO, class III from the west, Class II from east that is the dirty little secret in all this. ).


Wouldn't it be ironic if Tipton ran for Senate and Nortan ran for Tipton's House seat. In that you would have both 2010 contenders passing on for House members (both of whom were elected to Democratic held but Republican leaning rural seats) in exchange for their House seats on either side of the state.

I doubt she would of course.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

How many times did people pan Cory Gardner with regards to his potential being from CO-04, no connection to Denver suburbs and the era of Brown, Allard, Schafer is long over (all from CO-04 I would add) and that Gardner was even worse being practically from KS or at least the KS part of CO.

Now he has defeated Udall.

Bennet is a far better pol than Udall, just look at type of ads he ran in 2010 compared to Udall's this year.

Udall was basically running on Bennet's strategy taken up to the eleven.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yea I'm still betting on Bennet, no question, but being as anonymous as he is, he's going to have a tough time no matter. The GOP would probably have to nominate a top recruit to beat him - Tipton or Stapleton maybe?

I really doubt Coffman is the right guy for it, but who knows.

I think this annoymous thing is not as dangerous as it used to be. Incumbency is now longer as solid as it once was and oftentimes public presence leads to gaffe's and embarrassment. Shutting up and getting the job done has a lot to be said for it. Provided the job is getting done.