3rd Party Did NOT Give Hick the Election

[bryjcom]

So with 98.48% reporting it looks like even if Beauprez had the Libertarian, Dunafon and Fiorino votes and Hickenlooper getting the Green Party votes, Hick would have still beat him by 15K .

And the lead keeps getting bigger as they finish up counting.

Hickenlooper 977,711
Greenparty 26,279

Total 1,003,990

Beauprez 921,204
Libertarian 38,226
Dunafon 23,187
Fiorino 5,725

Total 988,342


Difference 15,648


https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=colorado+election+



I know you guys were pretty upset the day after and were blaming Libertarians but the fact is Beauprez sucked as a candidate and couldn't get enough people to vote for him.
Would have actually been nice to see some ads going after Hick, cause there was plenty to go after, but BB was too much of a "gentleman"

( I think I remember getting flamed in previous posts after saying "Beauprez = Mitt Romney" )



I also find it interesting that there was a higher percentage of libertarian vote in the senate race with Gardner and Udall than in the Gov race.

Senate race Libertarian 2.57%
Gov race Libertarian 1.92%




All in all guys it was still a successful night for conservatives. We just had a shitty establishment candidate that refused to challenge the narrative of the media.

[O2HeN2]

And the lead keeps getting bigger as they finish up stuffing.

Fixed it for 'ya.

O2

[Great-Kazoo]

Said it before say it again. It was the Independent vote that kept him in office. Which as the guv knows doesn't say much for the D support of him. I know his national stock has dropped within the D party.

[bryjcom]

Said it before say it again. It was the Independent vote that kept him in office. Which as the guv knows doesn't say much for the D support of him. I know his national stock has dropped within the D party.

I said it was the independents as well, in the "election merged threads". I was told I was wrong, of course......

I guess great minds think alike!

[Alpha2]

Yes. Beauprez was a lame, watered down, un-inspiring, Romney-esque candidate. And I don't remember seeing ANY yard signs, ads, and only maybe two or three bumper stickers with his name. And I'm on I-25 ALL WEEK LONG!!! Do you imagine that with maybe just a LITTLE support, this yesterday's news, has-been candidate would have won? It's possible, but alas, it didn't happen. And that, my friends, is due to the totally incompetent Republican mainstream in this state. It's the governership, for crying out loud, spend a buck! I know some of these people, and believe me, it's only due to the complete failure of the dems to realize that it's their policies, and not their "ground-game, messaging, what-have-you" that they're blaming this time, that we did as well as we did.

Now of course, that's just my opinion, and that and half a buck will get you a cup of coffee in most places, or $4.50 and a tip in Starbucks.

[Big John]

It blows my mind that damn near the whole state is red, we are able to boot folks out of office, yet we can't get the votes to get this garbage out.

[cstone]

It blows my mind that damn near the whole state is red, we are able to boot folks out of office, yet we can't get the votes to get this garbage out.

Land doesn't vote. People do, and most of the electorate in Colorado live between the Springs and Ft Collins with the major concentration around Denver.

The same is true of the nation. Most of the population lives near an ocean or a Great Lake. The land in between is called fly-over country for a reason.

Does anyone care about Wyoming or Idaho in a national election?

[Wulf202]

This is what happens when the other guy is just as big of piece of crap.

[Bailey Guns]

This is what happens when the other guy is just as big of piece of crap.

That is a completely lazy, totally uninspired argument...along the same lines as the "two evils" nonsense.

[bryjcom]

That is a completely lazy, totally uninspired argument...along the same lines as the "two evils" nonsense.

Thank you so much for that insightful attack on someone else, instead of offering your opinion on why Bob the Bozo lost. Maybe the Bozo wasn't "moderate" enough?????