Posted on 11/03/2010 1:31:20 PM PDT by Kartographer
Sen. Michael Bennet has narrowly defeated tea party Republican Ken Buck to win a hard-fought Senate seat in Colorado.
The victory for Bennet allows Democrats to hold onto a seat once viewed a prime opportunity for the GOP to make gains.
Bennet provided a crucial firewall against further Republican gains in the Senate during midterm elections. The race attracted more out-of-state campaign money than any other Senate contest this year.
In a victory speech, Bennet called it a "race for the record books."
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“Social issues drag conservatives down every time they’re brought up in in statewide races “
They also drag down RINO’s. Why would republicans want to go the distance for a RINO who proudly declares he is pro-choice and pro-gay?
CO Republicans need a remedial course in conservative activism. Might I suggest looking at my state WI. We were a bluish state that gave zero a double digit win in ‘08. Yet, this year, we gave the Congress 2 new Republican reps and a Senator (a TP conservative not a rino). We also took back the governor as well as the state senate and assembly from the Dims.
We have a very large TP movement all over the state.
On Wisconsin!
Buck really faltered down the stretch. He had numerous gaffes and unforced errors that took him off message. Bennet and the Dems painted him as an extremist and as anti-woman. Voters took the bait, with Bennet winning female voters 56-39% and carrying independents by a couple of points. This in a year when Republicans split the women’s vote nationally and carried indies by double digits. The final margin will be small but this was a major blown opportunity by the Buck campaign and Colorado Republicans.
Dumb ass Kalifornians moved here. That’s what happened.
Any recount better have a ton of legal eyeballs for our side. The ghost of Al Franken’s corrupt recount is everywhere.
Amendment 63 brought out the liberal women vote which didn’t help Buck at all. His gaffe earlier in the Fall about “Tell those Tea Partiers to stop bringing up the birth certificate” didn’t help him much either.
Hold it! No one else has called this race yet. The AP’s praise is a prime example of their lousy journalistic standards.
In Iowa, some liberal judges got thrown out by the voters.
But, Dan Maes, the Republican, did get 10% of the vote assuring that Tom Tancredo is not the governor.
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Maes had issues. Only the uninformed voted for him. All the states conservatives came out endorsing Tancredo (I). Maes was the only (R) I did NOT vote for. I'm just surprised he still got 10%.
I would have written in "Mickey Mouse" before I would have voted for a (D-) however.
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Go to county by county results and you will see where Buck lost this and will only drift further behind. Colorado is a lost cause statewide this cycle but did flip some house seats. Again, if you have just rudimentry knowledge of Colorado politics you can tell by one county, Jefferson who will win statewide. When results came in last night showing that spread NRO pointed this out. I believe once all of Boulder is counted you will see that Buck will lose 48-46....just like Jefferson county.
In fact Jefferson county voted Hickenlooper 50 -40 over tancredo and again that is how it turned out statewide. Just need better candidates, for example if Fiorina would of been in Colorado she would of won, Buck was just not a good candidate imo.
I would not concede until the votes are counted. If there is something like a 5000 vote difference there will be an automatic recount. Provisional and military votes are not in yet.
Colorado, what the hell is wrong with you?
LIBERALS is what wrong.
It was a big mistake for Buck to talk about social issues in a year when the economy is THE issue and an issue favorable to Republicans. When asked whether homosexuality is a choice, conservatives should say I don’t know and leave it at that.
Colorado had a chance to say no to Obama-care and overwhelmingly said, “yes, tax me more.”. Denver controls the entire state now. One city, steers my fate. This 30 year resident is looking to move elsewhere, Montana looks promising. It’s prettier than Colorado and too cold for California Liberals. Liberals tend to freeze or get eaten by bears if voting patterns are any indication.
Yeah, Rand Paul is Tea Party, but he’s also Kentucky.
And the race got too close for comfort at some points during the campaign.
I’m about as pro-Tea Party as you can get, but we need to look at the numbers and understand what’s behind them.
In heavily contested close Senate races, being directly linked with the “Tea Party” cost Republicans in the sense that it energized an equal and opposite reaction from Democrat forces.
What we’ve learned, just as the Democrats now have, is that 0bama is no game changer. He has not fundamentally changed American politics. The same divisions exist. The same partisanship, and the same ideological battles. America has rejected 0bama’s far-left Central Government radicalism, but that doesn’t mean they have embraced the polar opposite of that either.
The election last night was merely a correction, back to what America fundamentally is, and has always been: a center-right nation.
If we want to achieve a radical reduction in the size of government, dismantle entire departments (DHS, Education, Energy), we are going to have to be smart about choosing candidates who as Van Jones said, “forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
Good question. It's as if we looked to our right and saw 90% of the country returning to sanity, then turned to our left and saw California committing suicide and decided that the best course of action was to choose to join California in driving over the cliff. Amazing.
The Rocky Mountain west was a sea of red last night, and then embarrassingly there is this ugly blue anomaly smack dab in the middle of Colorado. Foolishness abounds here. It wasn't always this way, but I think the steady inflow of Californians has finally taken its toll.
Migratory ‘rats are the problem. John Salazar wasn’t even beaten by the margin he should have been in the conservative parts of the state. Still, it was some small comfort that the brother of Obama’s Interior Secretary got rejected.
Concession has no meaning. It is ceremonial only. And it is not even conceding, it is simply congratulating the apparent winner.
The only thing which matters is the final vote tally certified by the state’s Secretary of State. That act still happens regardless of concession.
If concession had meaning, one could be coerced to concede.
I have no knowledge of individual state laws, but no state law should stop counting uncounted ballots based on a concession when the number of outstanding ballots exceed the margin in the vote.
I am quite disappointed, probably like many other readers, that Buck lost his bid for the Colorado Senate seat. Some of the GOP Senate hopefuls (Angle, Buck, Fiorina, and Miller) significantly underperformed the other GOP candidates (Rubio and Paul). I knew O’Donnell would have a tough race. The CT race was closer than I thought it would be at the end. Rossi and Kirk were as close as expected. Toomey was closer than anticipated but he pulled it out. Johnson did fine, a bit closer than I wanted but enough. All in all, I wish Nevada and Colorado had stronger candidates. In a GOP wave/tsunami these seats should have gone to GOP candidates. It is a shame when people like Angle and Buck are perceived as too conservative or unqualified by a few too many of their voters. That is the power of negative campaigns that capitalize on mistakes.
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