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Colorado Dems: Palin will attract GOP base but repel moderates
PolitickerCO.com ^ | 9/8/08 | jeremy Pelzer

Posted on 09/08/2008 11:12:41 AM PDT by pissant

COLORADO SPRINGS-Following a Saturday rally with the Republican presidential ticket, state Democratic officials said GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin would help turn out the Republican base in Colorado but turn off moderates wary of her conservative views on abortion and other issues.

McCain and Palin held a rally near the Colorado Springs Airport on Saturday before about 10,000 enthusiastic supporters.

Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak said it was "obvious" that McCain and Palin would make Colorado Springs one of their first stops after the Republican National Convention, which concluded last Thursday.

"This is, of course, one of the strongest areas of the most extreme Republicans in the state," Waak said at a coffee shop in Colorado Springs following the rally. "So to come in, especially where (McCain) had some lukewarm acceptance and bring in Governor Palin, who is very right-wing herself -- it was a way to sort of rally people in this area."

Waak said the addition of Palin to the GOP ticket would help Republicans in Colorado to motivate a voter base that had been ambivalent about McCain to turn out on Election Day.

But that base is "shrinking" in Colorado, she said, and said that Palin "does not help (McCain) with unaffiliateds and Democrats" who disagree with the Alaska governor on issues like abortion, health care, and the economy.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnc; mccainpalin; palin; panickeddemocrats
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1 posted on 09/08/2008 11:12:42 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Go ahead, Dems. Try to create your own reality.


2 posted on 09/08/2008 11:14:44 AM PDT by Faith
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To: pissant

Uh...yeah... Good luck with that, Dems!


3 posted on 09/08/2008 11:15:19 AM PDT by Uriah_lost (To the Flag!!)
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To: pissant
...state Democratic officials said GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin would help turn out the Republican base in Colorado but turn off moderates wary of her conservative views on abortion and other issues.

Then they should be happy she's on the ticket!

4 posted on 09/08/2008 11:15:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: pissant
Anyone who would be “repelled” by Sarah Palin was already going to vote for Obama.
5 posted on 09/08/2008 11:16:12 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: pissant

Merely whistling past the graveyard...


6 posted on 09/08/2008 11:16:41 AM PDT by SAJ
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These idiotic Dem comments caused Colorado for McCain to shoot up 5 points on Intrade.

No Graph Available!

7 posted on 09/08/2008 11:16:57 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: pissant

In the end, McCain-Palin will take Colorado. Conservative El Paso County will put the state over the top for the GOP.

Close, yes, but no cigar for the Dems.


9 posted on 09/08/2008 11:18:03 AM PDT by Reagan Man (McCain Wants My Vote --- With Palin on the ticket, MOST conservatives should be satisfied.)
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To: Faith

The dirty secret is that America is not predominantly moderate. I do wish someone coul dget this across to John McCain. The majority of Americans are conservative thinking people. Politicians want to believe them to be moderate to explain the disaffection with the no longer conservative Republican or democrat parties.


11 posted on 09/08/2008 11:19:26 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: pissant

The MSM and the DNC also swear up and down that not one single Hillary voter is voting for McCain/Palin.


12 posted on 09/08/2008 11:21:10 AM PDT by avacado
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To: pissant

I thought we’re anti-woman? It so confusing trying to keep up with liberal logic, if you can call it that.


13 posted on 09/08/2008 11:21:14 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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This explains the 10-17 point bounce.....


14 posted on 09/08/2008 11:21:35 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: pissant

Title: total bull excrement....


15 posted on 09/08/2008 11:21:40 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: pissant

Sarah Palin definitely turns off moonbats but I’m not so sure about moderates.


16 posted on 09/08/2008 11:22:01 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: pissant
Play this, Dems...

17 posted on 09/08/2008 11:22:37 AM PDT by NewLand (McCain/Palin 2008!)
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Tell that to the people in Michigan....


18 posted on 09/08/2008 11:22:58 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Here they come boys! As thick as grass, and as black as thunder!)
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Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak said it was "obvious" that McCain and Palin would make Colorado Springs one of their first stops after the Republican National Convention, which concluded last Thursday.

Knick-Knack Patty Waak give the dog a bone...Her old man's a Rolling Stone.

19 posted on 09/08/2008 11:22:59 AM PDT by politicket (Palin-tology: (n) - The science of kicking Barack Obambi's butt!)
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> Colorado Dems: Palin will attract GOP base but repel moderates

OK, if you say so.

Keep those blinders on. They suit you.


20 posted on 09/08/2008 11:23:05 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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