Udall Trails in Colorado

[vadermike]

Well, I hate to say this but the President might have to get out his Veto pen , i am not sure if Dem's are going to make it to keep the Senate.. I thought so even up until a week or so ago, but it doesn't seem to be getting any better.. oh well.. someone talk me down.. but realistically it is not looking good.. people are going to vote base on emotion and against their own interest's again.. what truly frightens me is if they get the WH too..

[link:http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/09/25/udall_trails_in_colorado.html#disqus_thread|whihc they have a 50/50 shot at doing.. which is sad... what is wrong with our country?????

[upaloopa]

1. If they have a 50/50 shot so do we.

[earthside]

2. We will see in Colorado.

I would still give an edge to Udall in the end.
He's got a lot of money and Colorado is still trending blue.

However, the problem is that Mark Udall has not done much to distinguish himself as a U.S. Senator in the past six years. He's another one of those Democrats who seems petrified to be too clearly associated with the Democrats. If he loses it will be because he is too cautious, too center, too concerned with wanting everybody to like him, too 'folksy', too cozy with corporate Repuglicans, etc.

If Mark were more of a leader, like his cousin U.S. Sen. Tom Udall from New Mexico, he would be coasting to another term.

As a Coloradoan, frankly, I'm more concerned that Gov. Hickenlooper get reelected -- his Repuglican opponent is very bad.

I will also say that thus far, anecdotally, I am seeing a lot more Democratic Party GOTV effort than I am from the Repuglicans.

[vadermike]

3. hope

Hope we make it, but those polls are looking ugly... all we can do is GOTV.. good news on sounding like we are GOTV better than the GOP at this point.. hiopefully early voting is running strong as well..!

[Dawson Leery]

4. Michael Bennet was slightly behind in 2010 and won by 1.5%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Colorado,_2010#Polling_3

Colorado is now in league with Michigan and New Jersey in that the polls under represent Democrats.

The same occurred in the Presidential election where Obama walked Colorado even though the polls showed him just 1 point ahead of Mittens.

So long as turnout for the Democrats does NOT fall below 2010, Udall will win.

[vadermike]

5. good to hear

good to hear, also i read somewhere that democrats in early voting are out performing from 2010 in Iowa and NC... so that has got to count for something too ...

[ellie]

6. I cannot believe the voters of Colorado can be that stupid

Although I do see a lot of repuke stickers around. Just yesterday I saw one that said, Run Ben, Run for Ben Carson. God damned bunch of lunatics.

[otohara]

7. Guns

I still think Udall will win.

[bigdarryl]

8. That's a fucking tossup

Why is it that when rethugs are just a point or two ahead of democrats it's like there ahead but reverse it's a tossup.When I saw the heading I was expecting at least a 6 to 8 point lead.

[FBaggins]

9. Not really

Why is it that when rethugs are just a point or two ahead of democrats it's like there ahead but reverse it's a tossup.

Probably because so many of the Democrats this cycle are incumbents. A statewide incumbent consistently below 50% and frequently trailing is not a "tossup".

I'm not a fan of threads started by newbie posters who are "oh so worried"... but this is definitely a race to be concerned about.

When I saw the heading I was expecting at least a 6 to 8 point lead.

In the most recent Quinnipiac poll... it is an 8 point lead. (Though that's probably an outlier)

[fizzgig]

10. there's a lot of money behind cory gardner

i have a stack of anti-udall mailings in my living room and can remember seeing only one pro-udall commercial since the ads began.

i hope my state keeps its sense this year.