Posted on 10/03/2010 12:53:15 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo is running a strong third-party challenge in the Colorado race for Governor. The outspoken former member of the House is well ahead of the Republican candidate Dan Maes according to the newest poll from the Denver Post.
Tancredo is still trailing the Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper. Tancredo is running on a strict anti-illegal immigration platform, sidelining Maes. Maes has further been hit with ethics investigations. If you add the vote share for Tancredo with the one for Maes, the former Congressman would be three percent above the Democrat.
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Possibly can win. Four weeks is still a long time from now.
Go with Tancredo, he’s proven. If he’s beating the Republican now, he needs funding. When the Pubs see Maes is stuck or keeps dropping and Tancredo is ahead they in this case since we have a vetted conservative should go with him.
I think this is the race where Maes has some eithical problems. I believe I heard Hugh Hewitt speak badly about Tancredo. If he and others would keep their mouths shut Tancredo would have a better chance.
Hewitt hates Tancredo because he’s in the race.
If Tancredo was in third, I’d urge him to get out and endorse Maes. Since Maes is in third and dropping, he should get out.
Tancredo is not just running against illegal immigration. He has made a public promise to cut state spending and has identified some of his proposed cuts. He will also fight Obama’s health-control fiasco.
Hewitt has withdrawn support for Maes and called for him to drop out.
The problem in CO is the partisan ignorance on both sides (straight-ticket voters), and a very large percentage of equally ignorant mushy middle voters. TV ads during Bronco games would be the only way to reach the vast majority of voters across the board. When I lived there, over 40% of the working population were government workers, either local, state, or federal.
Low voter turnout in Denver and Boulder will help. Massive voter fraud in Denver will hurt.
He did? I missed that then.
As the RAT candidate smiles quietly.....
I haven’t listened to Hewitt in the last couple of weeks, but heard him supporting Dan Maes a few weeks ago and of course bashing Tancredo. If he’s still supporting Maes at this point, he’s being really idiotic. Tancredo is the only hope we have of beating Hickenlooper. Maes is the one that needs to drop out, but I believe as Peter Boyles has stated, this is how Maes is making his living right now so he’s going to ride it to the end.
Missed your post before I posted in #11. If Hewitt has really said that, then good for him.
I'd be surprised if Hugh Hewitt withdrew his support of Maes. Hewitt has always been a water-carrier for the Republican party. If he is now supporting Tancredo, then I'll give credit where it is due.
If he's still supporting Maes, then Hewitt and our local talk radio guy, Richard Randall...also a Republican party water-carrier, are really doing Colorado a disservice by continuing to support Maes simply because of the (R) next to his name.
Maes is so far behind in the polls, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY he can win. He knows it, and the water-carriers know it. Maes stays in because campaign contributions are his only source of income right now. The water-carriers continue to support him because...well, because they are water-carriers.
Tancredo is within striking distance of Hickenlooper, and can put a win in the conservative column for Colorado if Maes and his supporters would put principle over party (and an easy pay check) and support Tancredo. That is the only way we can win.
He did, in fact he called Maes “a fraud”, and that he was sorry to have being deceived by him.
That's good to hear then. Thanks.
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