Posted on 08/30/2016 5:21:13 AM PDT by snarkpup
The Republican Senate candidate in Colorado has been trailing Sen. Michael Bennet in recent polls but he is hoping for some "Labor Day magic."
Darryl Glenn has consistently lagged behind Bennet by double digits in one of the few competitive Senate seats that Democrats are defending this cycle. Glenn won his five-way primary race in June after the campaign of former state Rep. Jon Keyser imploded.
“I’m just not sure what happened here,” veteran Republican communications consultant Sean Duffy told The Denver Post. “You would think that a gentleman with his oratorical skills and background … you would think there would be more of a footprint there.”
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The only ads I've seen are from Bennet's camp. Of course they don't mention any opponents (not going negative - yet). Oddly enough (or maybe not) they don't mention any party affiliation, any ties to obama, Clinton, nada. They are pure pork-barrel old-school: gee, that big bad government wanted to close the CDC lab that is now leading the fight against Zika, your buddy Bennet kept that from happening, saving xxx jobs... {gag}
Glenn needs to get out there and hammer Bennet on his record. Bennet never met a tax proposal nor a gun-control proposal he didn't like. I'd bet he has voted for every single one. He backed the 'rat governor (chickenlooper) and his idiotic magazine capacity limits, "universal" background checks etc. that have provably done nothing.
Glenn needs to start campaigning, because as far as I can see, he's coasting right now.
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“I’m just not sure what happened here,”
Ted Cruz happened here and because of that, CO has little chance of flipping Red.
Hopefully IA and WI can undo the damage.
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Hopefully IA and WI can undo the damage.
I think the same thing that's happened with Virginia, Colorado is now just too far gone down the blue democrat cesspool due to an influx of west coast liberals, illegals and Government Employees. I think at this point Republicans would be better off just cutting their losses in states like Colorado and Virginia and trying to make up the votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota which seem to be trending more Republican (at least at the state level).
An update on this, from my perspective here in Mesa County: Many of the party activists who created the state convention mess that gave us Ted Cruz and a national scandal seem to be willing to at least tepidly support Trump in the general. The residual problems are that these activists
are openly contemptuous of the voters, whom they consider too ignorant to vote—in spite of the activists' history of nominating problematic candidates,
are desperate to continue the current non-primary system of caucus packing and delegate poaching so they can use it again four years from now.
Is Glenn running for senator of the front range? Has anybody seen him out in Real Colorado? Anybody?
Staff needs to show him that there are parts of Colorado west of the ski towns. Population might be sparse but he's putting at risk the traditional 80% pubbie vote totals. As pissed off as people are right now it wouldn't take much to see that attitude transfer to him if folks perceive they're being taken for granted.
Cruz has done some serious pollution in CO.
No ads seen for Darryl Glenn in the south Denver metro area (Douglas County). I haven’t seen yard signs, bumper stickers, or billboards for him.
Meanwhile, Bennet has well done TV ads.
Agreed except for MN.
I’m originally from MN and its a lost cause and is in much worse shape than CO
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