Hickenlooper or Romanoff for my spoiler vote?

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06-21-2020, 15:47
sic_semper_tyrannis

Hickenlooper or Romanoff for my spoiler vote?

I'm an independent (always have been) so I received both the Republican and Democratic primary ballots. There are no contested races on the Republican ballot (in Jefferson County) but there is a huge race between Romanoff and Hickenlooper on the Democratic ballot. I'm going to return the Dem ballot with a primary vote for whoever is most likely to lose to Cory Gardner in the upcoming US Senate race. I have found polling showing Hickenlooper with a 18pt lead over Gardner, but I can't find any polls with a Romanoff-Gardner contest, probably due to Hickenlooper being the presumed nominee. However, it appears Romanoff is closing the gap against Hickenlooper, so there is the potential for Romanoff to pull off an upset. My concern is that I have no idea if Romanoff would do better or worse against Gardner in the general compared to Hickenlooper, and I can't find any polling data to sway me one way or the other. On the one hand, I want Hickenlooper to lose every single contest that smarmy piece of shit enters, just to see a frown on his stupid fucking face. On the other hand, if he has a better chance of losing to Gardner in the general than Romanoff does, then I want him to be the nominee.

Colorado has become so un-f'n-believably predictable when it comes to our politics that I fully expect Gardner to lose his seat in November, regardless of who he is up against. I just want to do my part to give him a chance. Romanoff is even more smug and progressive than Hickenlooper, which I almost think gives Romanoff more votes in the general compared to Hick. Hick is currently suffering from the ethics "scandal" and the attack ads from Romanoff, which is narrowing his lead over Romanoff to 13 points. I don't see Colorado voters giving a single flying fuck about Hick's ethics violations or his political legacy of being a giant waffling cuck, all the voters see is the color blue and a 'D' next to his name. If there is anything the 2018 election taught me, it is that Colorado has gone full retard and is not ever coming back, with most voters happily check-marking a literal steaming turd so long as it is in the 'D' column.

So anyway, someone please help me out and substantiate an argument for which of these two punchable-faced fascists has the best chance of losing to Gardner in November? Thanks.
06-21-2020, 15:53
sic_semper_tyrannis

And FYI for anyone that doesn't pay attention to politics, the Colorado race this November could very likely result in swinging the US Senate over to the Democrats, which in turn could very likely result in unchecked Democratic control of all three branches of government.
06-21-2020, 16:39
Gman

If only there was a thread for this in a forum specific to politics...
06-21-2020, 17:11
sic_semper_tyrannis

My apologies, I've never actually ventured over to that forum before. I really only check here and the funny photos thread. But sure enough, you kinda sorta asked the exact same question over there.
06-27-2020, 17:20
TeaRex

I am going Hick just because I truly believe that the Dem candidate is going to defeat Gardner regardless of which Dem candidate wins the primary... and I would rather have Hick all things being equal. In my view he is relatively moderate (for a modern Dem)
06-27-2020, 22:35
Hummer

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Originally Posted by sic_semper_tyrannis

I'm an independent (always have been) so I received both the Republican and Democratic primary ballots. There are no contested races on the Republican ballot (in Jefferson County) but there is a huge race between Romanoff and Hickenlooper on the Democratic ballot. I'm going to return the Dem ballot with a primary vote for whoever is most likely to lose to Cory Gardner in the upcoming US Senate race. I have found polling showing Hickenlooper with a 18pt lead over Gardner, but I can't find any polls with a Romanoff-Gardner contest, probably due to Hickenlooper being the presumed nominee. However, it appears Romanoff is closing the gap against Hickenlooper, so there is the potential for Romanoff to pull off an upset. My concern is that I have no idea if Romanoff would do better or worse against Gardner in the general compared to Hickenlooper, and I can't find any polling data to sway me one way or the other. On the one hand, I want Hickenlooper to lose every single contest that smarmy piece of shit enters, just to see a frown on his stupid fucking face. On the other hand, if he has a better chance of losing to Gardner in the general than Romanoff does, then I want him to be the nominee.

Colorado has become so un-f'n-believably predictable when it comes to our politics that I fully expect Gardner to lose his seat in November, regardless of who he is up against. I just want to do my part to give him a chance. Romanoff is even more smug and progressive than Hickenlooper, which I almost think gives Romanoff more votes in the general compared to Hick. Hick is currently suffering from the ethics "scandal" and the attack ads from Romanoff, which is narrowing his lead over Romanoff to 13 points. I don't see Colorado voters giving a single flying fuck about Hick's ethics violations or his political legacy of being a giant waffling cuck, all the voters see is the color blue and a 'D' next to his name. If there is anything the 2018 election taught me, it is that Colorado has gone full retard and is not ever coming back, with most voters happily check-marking a literal steaming turd so long as it is in the 'D' column.

So anyway, someone please help me out and substantiate an argument for which of these two punchable-faced fascists has the best chance of losing to Gardner in November? Thanks.

Well, I think your analysis is right on.

I'll simplify by saying that Hick has a big lead so I'd vote Romanoff. I don't like his politics but I like him better than Hick in the integrity department.
06-28-2020, 07:41
Zundfolge

I can't imagine that East California will re-elect Gardner regardless of who the D candidate is but I'd argue that Hick has more name recognition with the normies so he'd beat Gardner worse than Romanoff will so I'd vote Romanoff as well.

But...

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Originally Posted by TeaRex

I am going Hick just because I truly believe that the Dem candidate is going to defeat Gardner regardless of which Dem candidate wins the primary... and I would rather have Hick all things being equal. In my view he is relatively moderate (for a modern Dem)

TeaRex makes a good point. Although Hick will be a Freshman Senator in a party run by the hard left so he's not going to really do much of anything but maybe we'll get lucky and he'll vote against Communism once in a while.

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Originally Posted by Hummer

I don't like his politics but I like him better than Hick in the integrity department.

Last Democrat with any integrity nuked the Japanese.
06-28-2020, 08:43
funkymonkey1111

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Originally Posted by sic_semper_tyrannis

My apologies, I've never actually ventured over to that forum before. I really only check here and the funny photos thread. But sure enough, you kinda sorta asked the exact same question over there.

no need to apologize just because someone gets their panties in a wad