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TexasTowelie

(116,301 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 02:09 PM Oct 2016

Colorado Republicans Can Start to Panic Now

Longtime Colorado political journalist Ernest Luning has been keeping track of ballot return figures via his Twitter account. This is not good for Republicans:

Dems keep lead in CO statewide ballot returns thru 10/20: D-18,867; R-12,570; U-10,203 #copolitics 1/5 https://t.co/PmONrsT29Q

— Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) October 21, 2016


The last time that Democrats were this far ahead of Republicans in Colorado in early voting returns was…well, maybe never.

The biggest fear for the GOP in 2016 has always been that a terrible top of the ticket — headlined by Donald Trump and Darryl Glenn — would be so disinteresting/disgusting that otherwise reliable Republican voters just wouldn’t bother to vote at all. Right-leaning political pundits have been saying for months that Republican voters could save down-ballot candidates by splitting their ticket at the polls, but that was assuming Republican voters would actually, you know, fill in the bubbles on their ballot.

If this trend continues in Colorado through Election Day, Republican candidates are going to be wiped out across the board. Perhaps the Trump campaign would have been better off staffing their field offices with people who are old enough to drive a car.

http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/88719/colorado-republicans-can-start-to-panic-now
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Colorado Republicans Can Start to Panic Now (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
I read that this is the first time in decades or ever meadowlark5 Oct 2016 #1
Kick it for Colorado nm AmericanActivist Oct 2016 #2
I am shocked at what a horrendous and weak candidate they (REPUBS) put up for Senate in Darryl Glenn hlthe2b Oct 2016 #3

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
1. I read that this is the first time in decades or ever
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 02:11 PM
Oct 2016

That there are more registered dems in the state of Colorado than republicans

hlthe2b

(105,873 posts)
3. I am shocked at what a horrendous and weak candidate they (REPUBS) put up for Senate in Darryl Glenn
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 02:57 PM
Oct 2016

I only heard bits and pieces of interviews and his one or two debates, but OMG.... The ONLY thing this guy has going for him is military background, and perhaps the novelty of the CO REPUGS backing an African American candidate. The latter is totally lost, though, given his very poorly informed teabagger positions-- something that might play to his frothing base in the Springs-- but will do little statewide. Even giving some latitude for his total inexperience (local office only) in politics, I just find his candidacy pretty damned shocking.

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