DISQUS

The Colorado Independent: Reality vs. Perception with Peggy and Ed

  • Leslie Robinson · 3 years ago
    No Dem Win For CD 7 I don't see how either Democratic candidate will be able to recover from attacks during the primary to win in November. Dems gave the race away months ago.


    The only civil Democratic primary of congressional or statewide stature in recent history has been between Ken Salazar and Mike Miles in 2004.


    Instead of Dems blowing millions in the CD 7 (a habit way too familiar), why not spread that wealth around to Bill Winter and Jay Fawcett?

  • Wendy Norris · 3 years ago
    poll metrics I touched on this briefly on Tuesday when I reported on the non-reporting of this poll by 9News.


    The number of polled subjects by age range seems a bit suspect as well as the gender split.


    I don't dispute that older voters tend to turn out in greater numbers, especially for primary elections in off-year campaigns. However,  those voters more often cast absentee ballots so the relentless barage of recent negative advertising likely has had very little affect in determining their candidate support. So, Perlmutter's spin doesn't really hold up in that case.

  • Andrew Oh-Willeke · 3 years ago
    I don't recall that race being terribly civil. Although it was perhaps better than CD 7.  Indeed, that race was a major factor in the ouster of State Democratic Party chair Chris Gates by Pat Waak, another intraparty race distinguished by its lack of civility.


    Now, that doesn't mean that it isn't possible to have a clean race.  The Democratic party race in Senate District 32 this year between Romer, Mello and Coleman could make even a cricket umpire happy.  One Democratic party precinct committee person in Denver called it a contest being carried out with "Epsicopalian manners."


    And, in 2004, when two Democrats in Fort Collins ended their race in a too close to call tie, they campaigned hand in hand, in a spirit of, dare I say it, comradeship and fraternity.

  • Jason Bane · 3 years ago
    My take is simple I don't see any possible way how ANY candidate could be up by 20 points at this point in the race. If the poll had shown a 5-8 point lead, I could buy it. But 20 points? No way.