2010 Primaries Thread (It's all over now, baby blue)

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Does it really matter?

Any excuse to make maps

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BTW Why is no Republican running for Lt. Governor in the state?

The Lt. Governor runs on the same ticket as the Governor.

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If Norton wins, that would be an amazing recovery. Maybe the protest, anti-establishment, tea party and Left protest vote for that matter on the Dem side is fading a bit. On the GOP side, it did not do that well in Tennessee.

At this point she embraces the far-right more than Buck.

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I don't know if this has been said, but Bennet won. He's 9 points ahead right now. McInnis and Maes are within a tenth of a percent of each other.

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Re: Buck

I think everyone wins here.  Democrats win with a less palatable general election candidate, and Republicans win with someone who isn't an establishment puppet.

Norton wasn't a fricken establishment puppet. Buck is the one who supports a pathway for citizenship for illegal aliens, pull out from Afghanistan, and increased spending. Whatever, as far as I'm concerned Republicans have shown they don't deserve to take back the senate by nominating Angle and Buck. The GOP also has a bigger problem in that Buck and most likely Deal winning will just contribute to Democrat attacks that the party is unwilling to nominate more female candidates. A record number of women were running for office this year, and a paltry if any increase has been shown in their nominations by Republicans.

Buck is no Angle. He's been a DA for years, and comes off very moderate. He is endorsed by the Tea Party, but he has not had many great things to say of the Tea Party. Norton seemed to move far to the right during the primary, and knowing the state, I think she is less electable.

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Re: Buck

I think everyone wins here.  Democrats win with a less palatable general election candidate, and Republicans win with someone who isn't an establishment puppet.

Norton wasn't a fricken establishment puppet. Buck is the one who supports a pathway for citizenship for illegal aliens,

That has more to do with sanity..you can't deport12 million people out of the USA, and you can't ignore them.

pull out from Afghanistan,

She said this explicitly?  What's the quote?

  

and increased spending

She said this explicitly?  What's the quote?

He said he doesn't want to have Afghanistan be an open commitment, though he doesn't support a public timetable.

On spending, he increased it as Weld County DA, but only because he was required to.

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Some maps! (not all precincts are in)

Rep Sen



Blue is Buck
Green is Norton
Dark Grey is Tie

Dem Sen



Red is Bennet
Green is Romanoff

CO-03 Rep



Blue is Tipton
Green is McConnell

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The Colorado Republican Treasurer's race is very close, here's the map with 4270/5458    precincts in:



Blue is Stapleton
Green is Ament

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Colorado Republican Governor 4329/5458 precincts in:



Blue is McInnis
Green is Maes

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Funny that the Colorado races won't fit into the media's narrative. On one hand you have the establishment Bennet winning, but anti-establishment Buck winning.

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Teller County's 31 precincts all came in at once just now. It gave slight boosts to Maes in the Gubernatorial race and Ament in the Treasurer's race.

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It looks to me like Maes is going to win. McInnis had only one thing going for him, Mesa County. In fact, looking at the counties, the vote totals look wrong. Maes should have a bigger margin, per my eye balling. Whatever.

The Republicans are concentrated in different areas. For instance, Mesa county has more total votes than Denver county. The high Republican population counties that Maes won were by close-ish margins, while McInnis is pulling in huge margins in most of the counties of his former district.

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Final maps!

Colorado Republican Senate:



Blue is Buck
Green is Norton

Colorado Democratic Senate:



Red is Bennet
Green is Romanoff

Colorado Republican Governor:



Green is Maes
Blue is McInnis

Colorado Republican Treasurer:



Blue is Stapleton
Green is Ament

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Maes won, and by a large enough margin to avoid an automatic recount.

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This has been a depressing night to be a Republican.  I shall go in a corner and mope.

oooosh, ahhhhhh, I love the smell of pessimism in the evening!

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The Republican party is trying to figure out what it is after being slaughtered in 2006 and 2008. Radicals being nominated is a part of this identity struggle, but I expect the Republican party of 2014 to be much more moderate and stable than the one today.

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The Republican party is trying to figure out what it is after being slaughtered in 2006 and 2008. Radicals being nominated is a part of this identity struggle, but I expect the Republican party of 2014 to be much more moderate and stable than the one today.

Ever the optimist, aren't you?

Why not? In a two-party system, both parties will ultimately gravitate towards the mainstream.

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I go to the gym for my training session, and come back to find ... well . I hope the bitch loses in a landslide. They need to be taught a lesson - now. Or maybe we need a new centrist party.

Besides Angle and now O'Donnell, I can't think of any major Tea Party upsets that weren't in states where they fit into the mainstream anyway. For the most part, the mainstream GOP has prevailed (or mainstream Tea Party candidates have). You're forgetting that when the establishment pick wins, it is not news.

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A majority of Delaware voters are teabaggers? The same state where 50% approves of Obama?

Remember that outside the southern portion of the state is like the American south in many ways, and that Republicans would be disproportionately from that area of the state.

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A majority of Delaware voters are teabaggers? The same state where 50% approves of Obama?

Remember that outside the southern portion of the state is like the American south in many ways, and that Republicans would be disproportionately from that area of the state.

I am referring to Libertas' claim that O'Donnell can win the general election with the support of teabaggers alone.

Oh, well then, Coons would have to be caught with a dead girl or a live boy to lose