Posted on 09/06/2022 12:56:38 PM PDT by Twotone
EAGLE, Colorado — There is something going on here in Colorado politics that is not much different than what happened in Virginia exactly one year ago: a shift away from the status quo and the odds-on favorite Democrat toward his Republican challenger.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., is seeking a second full term against Republican challenger Joe O'Dea. And the question, in a state where people tend to dislike both parties but increasingly favor Democrats, is whether O'Dea is independent enough to earn their vote.
Democrats viewed O'Dea as enough of a threat that they dropped $10 million into the Republican primary to manipulate voters into backing his "stop-the-steal" primary rival. Their advertising to Republican voters aimed to paint O'Dea as a centrist, which complicates their task now. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is really unpopular in this state.
For his own part, O'Dea is a really good candidate whose worldview very much reflects that of the voters here: fierce, independent thinking and owing nothing to anyone.
Like Virginia, Colorado is a blue state that occasionally flirts with Republican candidates. And as in Virginia, the voters here are unhappy that the Democrat running to represent them has lost his independence. They are now listening to the candidate who speaks to them and not just a party line — and polling reflects that. A survey conducted for the Republican Attorney General's Association shows Bennet up over O'Dea by just one point, 48% to 47% — that in a state Biden won handily less than two years ago.
O'Dea has spent his campaign time listening to voters here. They discuss the impact inflation has had on their personal and professional lives. Business owners in places such as Snowmass and Aspen are struggling to find workers and stay open.
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Wishful thinking or on the road to serious?
Heard O’Dea interviewed, he sound like a solid guy. Well spoken, like DeSantis.
Maybe we won’t need to worry about PA.
1st the WA state polling on patty murray and now this. maybe the red tsunami is going to happen after all
Like Virginia, Colorado is a blue state that occasionally flirts with Republican candidates.
Wasn’t it a RED state, like Virginia, before the liberal invasion started years ago?
Get outside of Denver, Colorado Springs and the ski towns and the place is pretty effin’ RED. And most of the folks working in those ski towns, unaffordable to so many, employ many of those RED voters.
Yes, that’s more accurate. It is a formerly red state that hasn’t yet gone to 60%+ blue yet and still somewhat on the margins but still trending overall the wrong way.
Trump got more votes in CO in 2020 than Hillary did in 2016. Supposedly Biteme got even more than that. Population increase can't account for that. For some reason the CO SoS forbid any audit of the all-mail-in ballots.
Colorado when I was growing up was a solid conservative state
Not so much these days
The Front Range is the problem. My western county went 65%-35 for Trump. There are Trump signs still up around here, plus plenty of Let’s Go Brandon.
Colorado is a red state that has gone blue due to voter fraud. They use the narrative of immigration and Californians moving there, but those numbers fall short.
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