CO Magellan (R): Polis +7

[Person Man]

Is this a harbinger of how things will now be in Colorado? Polish and Stapleton seem to be quintessential generic partisans.

[Person Man]

Wow. If Stapleton is down by seven in a Republican internal, he might even lose the actual election by double digits.

I agree. And it is very possible, given that Bob Beauprez lost by 16 in 2006, the last major Democratic wave year.

against someone who was a centrist, if not mildly conservative. This is against maybe not a radical but someone who is very liberal.

[Person Man]

Wow. If Stapleton is down by seven in a Republican internal, he might even lose the actual election by double digits.

I agree. And it is very possible, given that Bob Beauprez lost by 16 in 2006, the last major Democratic wave year.

against someone who was a centrist, if not mildly conservative. This is against maybe not a radical but someone who is very liberal.

Polis is definitely liberal, but he's not that much different from Governor Hickenlooper, if you really think about it. He is an inoffensive generic Democrat and comes off as reserved.

Moreover, Colorado has an inherent bias for Democratic Governors. It has elected four Democrats and one Republican over the past forty-four years. This election is merely a continuation of that trend. And Democrats have won almost every gubernatorial election by double digits in that period, with the exceptions of 1974, 1998, 2002, and 2014.

I was talking about Ritter.

[Person Man]

Wow. If Stapleton is down by seven in a Republican internal, he might even lose the actual election by double digits.

I agree. And it is very possible, given that Bob Beauprez lost by 16 in 2006, the last major Democratic wave year.

against someone who was a centrist, if not mildly conservative. This is against maybe not a radical but someone who is very liberal.

Polis is definitely liberal, but he's not that much different from Governor Hickenlooper, if you really think about it. He is an inoffensive generic Democrat and comes off as reserved.

Moreover, Colorado has an inherent bias for Democratic Governors. It has elected four Democrats and one Republican over the past forty-four years. This election is merely a continuation of that trend. And Democrats have won almost every gubernatorial election by double digits in that period, with the exceptions of 1974, 1998, 2002, and 2014.

I was talking about Ritter.

I know who you were talking about, but Hickenlooper is very similar ideologically to Ritter, and I was drawing the comparison between Polis and the current incumbent.

I just see Ritter and Polis in a different light, I guess.