CO 2014

[sg0508]

If we've learned anything since 2006 in CO, bet against the GOP.  The party is stuck way too far to the right for the state's current politics and moving demographics.  CO is a good microcosm of the GOP's national problems

[California8429]

Josh Penry is being recruited by Chairman Ryan Call for Governor. What a weak candidate

Isn't he that charismatic 30-something wunderkind who was once hailed as the future of the Colorado Republican Party?

And which legitimate Colorado Republican would actually consider running against someone as popular as Hickenlooper? Seems like a better bet would be Senator, where they'd actually have a chance of pulling off the win.

He dropped out for Governor last time around because of a major skeleton in his closet. Who he happened to marry after divorcing his wife when he bowed out from the race. Then again, Hickenlooper is no picturesque guy for marriage either....or Bill Owens. I guess its just part of being governor of colorado now.

[5280]

This may hurt Hickenlooper's chances in CO after it's signed into law, the magazine ban.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/hickenlooper-will-support-bill-limiting-gun-magazine-rounds/

[California8429]

This may hurt Hickenlooper's chances in CO after it's signed into law, the magazine ban.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/hickenlooper-will-support-bill-limiting-gun-magazine-rounds/

It should, but it's a free ride without someone to face him. Please, can an amazing darkhorse/unknown just announce? We will support you!

[SamInTheSouth]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

[Obamanation]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

You're delusional if you think this will have any impact on next year's races.

[pbrower2a]

This may hurt Hickenlooper's chances in CO after it's signed into law, the magazine ban.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/hickenlooper-will-support-bill-limiting-gun-magazine-rounds/

Massacre clips are unpopular among voters these days.

[Tender Branson]

This may hurt Hickenlooper's chances in CO after it's signed into law, the magazine ban.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/hickenlooper-will-support-bill-limiting-gun-magazine-rounds/

Keating, the most accurate CO pollster from 2012 disagrees with you:

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[backtored]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

You're delusional if you think this will have any impact on next year's races.

I've never even shot a gun before and these bills make me furious.

It's difficult to exaggerate the enormity of the Democrats' political miscalculation here.  Of all the hornets nests the Democrats could have kicked, guns may be the grand-daddy of them all in this state.

[Indy Texas]

With gun control, same-sex civil unions and everything else that's been going on in the CO legislature, 2014 will help determine if Colorado is a purple state or a blue state. If the Democrats keep their legislative majorities and keep most or all statewide offices, the Republicans are done here for a generation. We all knew it would happen eventually, just never anticipated it would be only a decade removed from the red state Colorado of the 2000s that elected people like Wayne Allard and Marilyn Musgrave.

[backtored]

All we've heard about here in Colorado is that Republicans fear Democrats like John Hickenlooper and Cory Gardner.  So, the logic goes, Colorado must be a blue state.

Tell that to GOP superstar Cory Gardner, who is evidently ramping up for a statewide run next year:

http://thecoloradoobserver.com/2013/03/gardner-moves-toward-statewide-run/

I think that many media and Democratic observers have assumed that Gardner would keep his powder dry and let someone else make the "futile" run.

It's tough to exaggerate the momentum the GOP has picked up in Colorado in the wake of the Dems' amazing legislative overreach.  But, evidently, Rep. Gardner feels it, too.

[Benj]

Influx of Californians, liberals from the northeast and from blue states ruin former conservatives states with their socialist left wing policies are like cockroaches, they infest the thriving state/city and leave behind a cesspool of vile and garbage behind that people have to clean up.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/13/this-stunning-chart-shows-you-exactly-what-the-calif-exodus-looks-like-not-ready/

Yup, those 55,000 people moving from California to Colorado, a state of over 5 million residents, really transformed Colorado from a center of freedom and liberty and the Great American Way into a liberal hellscape of socialism.

All we've heard about here in Colorado is that Republicans fear Democrats like John Hickenlooper and Cory Gardner.  So, the logic goes, Colorado must be a blue state.

Tell that to GOP superstar Cory Gardner, who is evidently ramping up for a statewide run next year:

http://thecoloradoobserver.com/2013/03/gardner-moves-toward-statewide-run/

I think that many media and Democratic observers have assumed that Gardner would keep his powder dry and let someone else make the "futile" run.

It's tough to exaggerate the momentum the GOP has picked up in Colorado in the wake of the Dems' amazing legislative overreach.  But, evidently, Rep. Gardner feels it, too.

Two-term Congressman ultra-conservative hick politician from the center of hickland is totally the Republican candidate Democrats are afraid of.

[Maxwell]

Influx of Californians, liberals from the northeast and from blue states ruin former conservatives states with their socialist left wing policies are like cockroaches, they infest the thriving state/city and leave behind a cesspool of vile and garbage behind that people have to clean up.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/13/this-stunning-chart-shows-you-exactly-what-the-calif-exodus-looks-like-not-ready/

Libertarian-Colorado

[5280]

Influx of Californians, liberals from the northeast and from blue states ruin former conservatives states with their socialist left wing policies are like cockroaches, they infest the thriving state/city and leave behind a cesspool of vile and garbage behind that people have to clean up.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/13/this-stunning-chart-shows-you-exactly-what-the-calif-exodus-looks-like-not-ready/

Libertarian-Colorado

Fiscal conservative... Social moderate/liberal...there is a difference

[greenforest32]

http://coloradostatesman.com/content/994076-gessler-announces-reelection-secretary-state

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aside, Colorado does have pretty high turnout for a state with no election-day registration:

* http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2012G.html

* http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/same-day-registration.aspx

Any background on why that's the case?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

You're delusional if you think this will have any impact on next year's races.

I've never even shot a gun before and these bills make me furious.

It's difficult to exaggerate the enormity of the Democrats' political miscalculation here.  Of all the hornets nests the Democrats could have kicked, guns may be the grand-daddy of them all in this state.

I don't think it's much of a miscalculation.  Virtually everyone who might be offended by the recently passed gun control laws was never going to vote Democrat under any circumstances anyway. I know a number of Libertarian and Republican pro-gun folks, and none of them have a problem with these laws; as long as it doesn't really impact their recreation shooting or hunting, they don't care.

[5280]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

You're delusional if you think this will have any impact on next year's races.

I've never even shot a gun before and these bills make me furious.

It's difficult to exaggerate the enormity of the Democrats' political miscalculation here.  Of all the hornets nests the Democrats could have kicked, guns may be the grand-daddy of them all in this state.

I don't think it's much of a miscalculation.  Virtually everyone who might be offended by the recently passed gun control laws was never going to vote Democrat under any circumstances anyway. I know a number of Libertarian and Republican pro-gun folks, and none of them have a problem with these laws; as long as it doesn't really impact their recreation shooting or hunting, they don't care.

Actually, I don't own any guns and have issues with the law.  What does this do exactly, Magpul is moving out of CO among other companies in the same business, people will boycott the state, take their money and spend it in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona.  Hicknelooper is wrong and needs to be voted out of office in 2014.  Californication of CO is happening faster than my head can spin.

[Benj]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

You're delusional if you think this will have any impact on next year's races.

I've never even shot a gun before and these bills make me furious.

It's difficult to exaggerate the enormity of the Democrats' political miscalculation here.  Of all the hornets nests the Democrats could have kicked, guns may be the grand-daddy of them all in this state.

I don't think it's much of a miscalculation.  Virtually everyone who might be offended by the recently passed gun control laws was never going to vote Democrat under any circumstances anyway. I know a number of Libertarian and Republican pro-gun folks, and none of them have a problem with these laws; as long as it doesn't really impact their recreation shooting or hunting, they don't care.

Actually, I don't own any guns and have issues with the law.  What does this do exactly, Magpul is moving out of CO among other companies in the same business, people will boycott the state, take their money and spend it in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona.  Hicknelooper is wrong and needs to be voted out of office in 2014.  Californication of CO is happening faster than my head can spin.

You're just a Republican hack masquerading as a libertarian, so no one cares.

[5280]

Democrats will be favored.  The GOP is so, so weak in CO these days.

That may be changing after this gun control bill passes.

You're delusional if you think this will have any impact on next year's races.

I've never even shot a gun before and these bills make me furious.

It's difficult to exaggerate the enormity of the Democrats' political miscalculation here.  Of all the hornets nests the Democrats could have kicked, guns may be the grand-daddy of them all in this state.

I don't think it's much of a miscalculation.  Virtually everyone who might be offended by the recently passed gun control laws was never going to vote Democrat under any circumstances anyway. I know a number of Libertarian and Republican pro-gun folks, and none of them have a problem with these laws; as long as it doesn't really impact their recreation shooting or hunting, they don't care.

Actually, I don't own any guns and have issues with the law.  What does this do exactly, Magpul is moving out of CO among other companies in the same business, people will boycott the state, take their money and spend it in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona.  Hicknelooper is wrong and needs to be voted out of office in 2014.  Californication of CO is happening faster than my head can spin.

You're just a Republican hack masquerading as a libertarian, so no one cares.

Compelling argument...

[California8429]

There are rumors of other potential candidates from the legislature, all lack-luster and Penry is still being touted for Governor by the Chair.

[krazen1211]

Recalls!



You can't kick every barking dog, but perhaps you can kick some of them.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

http://kdvr.com/2013/01/22/poll-55-percent-of-coloradans-favor-stricter-gun-laws/

[Franzl]

http://kdvr.com/2013/01/22/poll-55-percent-of-coloradans-favor-stricter-gun-laws/

Must be skewed.

[5280]

http://kdvr.com/2013/01/22/poll-55-percent-of-coloradans-favor-stricter-gun-laws/

Yeah, that the poll was taken in metro Denver, which is obviously skewed Democrat.  Smells like BS to me.

[5280]

There are rumors of other potential candidates from the legislature, all lack-luster and Penry is still being touted for Governor by the Chair.

John Hickenlooper is a spineless noodle, only goes the way the wind blows.