3rd Party Did NOT Give Hick the Election

[Mtn.man]

So the Dead vote is still coming in!

[Bailey Guns]

The people of Colorado chose the republican nominee. Blame them...no one else is responsible. I voted for Kopp but it wasn't meant to be.

[bryjcom]

The people of Colorado chose the republican nominee. Blame them...no one else is responsible. I voted for Kopp but it wasn't meant to be.

Yep..... The typical republican can't get their head out of their ass and actually nominate someone that is new, refreshing and exciting.

Just look at the last too republican presidential nominees and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Bailey Guns]

Yep..... The typical republican can't get their head out of their ass and actually nominate someone that is new, refreshing and exciting.

Just look at the last too republican presidential nominees and you'll see what I'm talking about.

And I disagree with your assertion. I think Romney would've been an outstanding president and possibly the next Reagan. He was uncannily accurate about what another Obama term would mean for America. Even if you disagree with that I'm betting you wouldn't disagree that you would've enjoyed a Romney presidency far more than another Obama term.

[muddywings]

The people of Colorado chose the republican nominee. Blame them...no one else is responsible. I voted for Kopp but it wasn't meant to be.

ditto and sad but true.
Of all the wins that night, this loss crushed me. By 2016 we'll be solidly blue again.

[Bailey Guns]

[OneGuy67]

Bryan, your stats are disingenuous. The argument is, the third party votes caused another four years of hickenlooper, even though the goal was to remove hick. You cannot add the green party into hicks vote. If you do, you need to add the lib, dunafon and fiorino votes to his tally as in a sense all voted for him and against BB.

The goal was to remove hick, which failed due to the third party vote.

[bryjcom]

Bryan, your stats are disingenuous. The argument is, the third party votes caused another four years of hickenlooper, even though the goal was to remove hick. You cannot add the green party into hicks vote. If you do, you need to add the lib, dunafon and fiorino votes to his tally as in a sense all voted for him and against BB.

The goal was to remove hick, which failed due to the third party vote.

Not sure what you're really saying????

The point was that if there was NO 3rd party candidate then who would those people vote for? I'm sure some would not vote at all, but its a safe bet that the most of the green party votes would go to Hick, while most of the other 3rd party votes would go to Bob, being as those voters are "conservative".

When you tally them up Hick still wins.

If you have no 3rd party candidates and all those people who voted 3rd party did not vote, then Hick still wins.

No matter how you look at it, Hick still wins regardless of 3rd party votes or not.

[Teufelhund]

I find it irritating that some conservatives get their panties in a twist when Libertarians want to vote for the Libertarian candidate in the Presidential election, and tell us "win some local races first, instead of going straight for the White House." Then when the local elections happen, they start crying because somehow the third-party votes kept the Republicans from winning.

I always vote a straight R ticket in every election, including this last one, except for POTUS. I know it isn't realistic to expect a third-party to actually win in our current system, and it was much more important this time around to unseat the Dems after what they did to this state over the last few years.

That said, screw you guys. Offer up better candidates and stop catering to the hard-right leaning conservative base - they're going to vote for the R anyway. It's the middle-ground you need to appeal to if you want their support.

[Great-Kazoo]

ditto and sad but true.
Of all the wins that night, this loss crushed me. By 2016 we'll be solidly blue again.

Not if we could get Bob Scheaffer out of retirement.

[QUOTE=Teufelhund;1765729
. Offer up better candidates and stop catering to the hard-right leaning conservative base - they're going to vote for the R anyway. It's the middle-ground you need to appeal to if you want their support.[/QUOTE]

Agree but disagree.

Middle ground appealing to, yes. The Staunch Conservative base doesn't always vote R. They stay home or don't check the box next to the R's name. it happened in 12 with Romney. My uncle, a staunch conservative said he wasn't voting for Romney because he wasn't conservative enough, as did thousands of other conservative voters. A lot of them readers of NR which he was senior editor of till retirement.

IMO the 2 party system is on life support. This election cycle was a vote against Obama, more than a vote for R's . Who will the R's choose for 16 ? Who will the D's choose? The Hillary 2016 wagon is rolling, yet Warren who is left of Hillary has a fair amount of supporters in the DNC. Could she upset the D apple cart? Especially when the media and just about everyone believed Hillary was a lock in 08.
Who will try for the coveted seat of CIC?