Posted on 07/02/2022 10:20:34 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The story of the GOP primary race for Secretary of State in Colorado gets more interesting the more you investigate the results.
As I noted yesterday, the big news is that an Australian businessman named Mike O’Donnell somehow got 28% of the vote (173,000 citizens voted for him!) even though polling showed he had no support, he raised $4,700 for his campaign, and 139 people were following his campaign on Twitter. The most interaction he got on his 1,300 campaign tweets was 4 “likes” on his June 27th tweet; most of them had zero interaction. He went from being a non-factor in a three-person race to grabbing more than quarter of the total vote.
Mike O’Donnell seems like a very nice guy — but can anyone explain his sudden 28% share of the vote in the most important election integrity race in Colorado? Election officials in Colorado had no explanation. Most of the county clerks in the 17 counties that Mike O’Donnell won had never heard of him. Their reactions ranged from confusion to disbelief.
But, wait, there’s more.
The really big news is that Pam Anderson supposedly won the race with 43% of the vote (266,000 citizens voted for her!) which is an unbelievable result — to say the very least.
It’s truly unbelievable because two months before the primary, Pam Anderson was not just losing to Tina Peters in all the polling and fundraising metrics, but her campaign was broke. She had a $5,665 balance in her campaign coffers. According to liberal site Colorado Pols, “this surprisingly anemic fundraising is just more evidence that [Pam Anderson] is a candidate without a constituency…”
Two days after that assessment, Colorado Pols considered Anderson’s campaign dead-on-arrival and added that: “Peters’ strong performance further underscores Anderson’s weakness in this race, running on a message not just disagreed with but considered treasonous by a majority of Republican voters.”
Furthermore, Tina Peters was the obvious frontrunner in every way:
“In the Republican primary for Colorado Secretary of State, all the momentum now is with Tina Peters. By every available metric, Peters is the frontrunner. Peters dominated the vote at the state assembly, and now holds a commanding lead in fundraising. Peters is getting orders of magnitude more earned media attention. Coverage one might perceive as negative about Peters’ criminal case, at least until June 28th, is not a major liability with GOP primary voters. To the extent they’ve heard of Peters, a large percentage will see her as a hero.”
So where were Pam Anderson’s 266,000 voters hiding all this time before primary day?
They were not hiding on Twitter and Facebook — that’s for sure.
The day of the primary, the enthusiasm for Pam Anderson was, shall we say, underwhelming on social media.
Do these tweets appear to show the kind of sudden political momentum that turns Pam Anderson from being twenty points behind Tina Peters to beating Tina Peters by 15 points?
You must remember that Tina Peters got 61% of the delegates at Colorado’s Republican Assembly in April. What about Pam Anderson — you ask?
Pam Anderson did not even attend the Republican assembly. She was so unpopular in the Colorado GOP that she was a write-in candidate who only qualified in April. She had to collect 1,000 valid signatures from registered Republicans in each of the state’s eight congressional districts just to get on the ballot. In the 5th Congressional District, Anderson managed only 1,282 valid signatures. Apparently, more than 5,000 of the 17,904 signatures submitted by Anderson were not valid.
In other words, Pam Anderson was not a wildly popular candidate among Republicans.
So how did Pam Anderson suddenly pull off a miraculous 35 point swing on Primary Day two months later with no money and no endorsements?
The only advantage that Pam Anderson had in this race: she’s on the Board of Directors for Mark Zuckerberg’s private election mafia, the “Center For Tech And Civic Life.”
Isn’t it strange that the director of Mark Zuckerberg’s private election charity for Democrats (on temporary leave!) just won the most important election integrity race in Colorado — and a GOP primary no less — as a write-in candidate with a 35 point polling swing with no money and no visible support from Republicans?
One more thing: Colorado uses Dominion Voting Machines.
The worthless GOP had no interest whatsoever in correcting our fraudulent voting systems the Dems WILL STEAL the midterms they don’t give a damn BECAUSE there are NO CONSEQUENCES, NONE!! Voting fraud is in your face blatantly in your face snd our side does not give a shit because they HATE Trump as much as the left does!! Trump was disrupting their money laundering with foreign wars scheme!!
Yes.
In part I would accept some of the questions, but to me I think Twitter is less dominant among the GOP voters than any other group, so I would put zero stock in how much play/attention any candidate was or was not getting via Twitter. MOST people among all people do not have a Twitter account or do not use one they have.
Never heard of her, and I’ve lived here for nine months. Not a single sign or bumper sticker.
Per the article:
Isn’t it strange that the director of Mark Zuckerberg’s private election charity for Democrats (on temporary leave!) just won the most important election integrity race in Colorado — and a GOP primary no less — as a write-in candidate with a 35 point polling swing with no money and no visible support from Republicans?
One more thing: Colorado uses Dominion Voting Machines.
Voting machines cheat and guns kill people./s
O’Donnell spoke at the Colorado State Assembly in April and gave a very detailed exposition of his research into previous elections, speaking in a very matter-of-fact voice, said he tracked down many ballots from many people that lived out of state, and even out of the country. I did meet him at the Western Conservative Summit, came across as very reasoned and calm, strongly concerned about election irregularities, though in a calm matter-of-fact voice.
...so has anyone heard from Tina Peters..?
Bought and paid for.
I would be more likely to blame crossover voting than the election machines. Th Dems are proposing it in Wyoming to save Liz Cheney. It is the latest Dem attack on “democracy” and “election integrity.” RINOs are probably also in on it, to keep pro-Trump candidates from winning.
Just when l thought there was some hope l saw this. It is such an obvious rigg job how can we hope to either house with a 4-5% lead margin, that will get wiped easily with those f’n machines
Unfortunately, both the PA and AZ state legislatures are controlled by RINOs, who want nothing to do with MAGA. The RINOs will turn a blind eye in November to Democrat cheating if it means that Mastriano and Lake will be defeated.
RINOs would rather have a Democrat win than to see 'their' party taken over by MAGA.
I pray to God that there is an ongoing recruitment effort for rank-and-file republican voters to become poll watchers, and that election lawyers are organized/prepared to challenge election night cheating, along with constitutional-loving judges who are available to crack down on cheating the night it happens.
If we learned anything from 2020, it was that once fraudulent votes are counted and included in the total, it is virtually impossible to get them kicked out.
The communists are just warming up for the November elections...
A landslide for the communists in this coming November (and November 2024) will cause the american sheeple zero concern...
Move along...
Do not try to cause trouble...
Everything is simply wonderful...
The problem is that the same RINO traitors in the state legislatures who turned a blind eye to the cheating in 2020 are still there. Even if they get voted out in the primaries this summer, they will still preside over the 2022 Mid-Terms.
The only way it gets fixed is to vote out RINOs in the state legislatures. It's not an overnight fix, but other than revolution, I don't know what else there is. The RINO-controlled state legislatures of PA, GA, MI, AZ, and WI turned a blind eye to Democrat cheating in 2020. If everyone with an (R) after their name had been a constitutional-loving conservative, the Steal could not have happened.
RINOs would rather have a Democrat win than to see 'their' party taken over by MAGA.
“I would be more likely to blame crossover voting than the election “
Then you would be wrong. Cross voting could not cause the obvious rigg job this was. There are not enough rats to save Cheney who is down by 30 points so if she ends up winning there will be no point in Voting in November
I disagree. This is July. November is not that far away.
You are not going to vote the rinos out, not when the system is rigged against you. Now, they are even selecting the candidates you get to vote for in the primaries.
I am afraid the solution is going to lie elsewhere, since they have raped the right to vote.
This isn’t looking good at all.
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