If The State Election Were Today

[cowboykjohnson]

Glad we had a poll!

[roberth]

I may end up changing my vote from Tancredo to the Republican candidate.

Traditionally 35 to 40 percent of the voters vote Dem and 35 to 40 percent of the voters vote Repub. This is why third party candidates almost NEVER win, they just can't get the votes.

20 to 30 percent of the voters actually decide who gets elected and I am in that group even though I am a registered Republican.

I do not want hickenlooper to win so I will probably close my eyes and vote for the Republican candidate even though Tancredo is my preferred choice.

We cannot allow Hickenlooper to win, this would be the equivalent of having obama governor and we're seeing how well that is going.

[Bailey Guns]

roberth, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I'd simply say it's the undecided/independents who actually pushes a candidate over the top, though, rather than decides who gets elected. Semantics, probably.

But you gotta figure Hickenlooper is going to get 40-45 percent of the vote without even working for it. That's a pretty formidable obstacle for any other candidate to overcome. It doesn't take much of a split on the other side to ensure a Hickenlooper victory.

[Ranger]

But you gotta figure Hickenlooper is going to get 40-45 percent of the vote without even working for it.

That's why I wanted to put this poll up, just a very informal and non scientific polling to see how split just we at CO-AR15 are over this election. It certainly gives me a very clear view of things.

[roberth]

roberth, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I'd simply say it's the undecided/independents who actually pushes a candidate over the top, though, rather than decides who gets elected. Semantics, probably.

But you gotta figure Hickenlooper is going to get 40-45 percent of the vote without even working for it. That's a pretty formidable obstacle for any other candidate to overcome. It doesn't take much of a split on the other side to ensure a Hickenlooper victory.

Thank you.

That is why true conservatives may have to swallow hard and vote for the Republican candidate.

We cannot afford to let hickenlooper win. If the looper wins I hope we can give him a Republican State House and Senate so that he won't be able to move his agenda forward.

[Jer]

I may end up changing my vote from Tancredo to the Republican candidate....This is why third party candidates almost NEVER win, they just can't get the votes.

It's because SO many people have this same bassackwards thinking. If they guy is the better candidate then VOTE FOR HIM. My vote is MY vote. I'm not voting on behalf of an entire party so I could care less but at the end of the day I know that I voted for the right guy... whoever that may be.

[Irving]

I have yet to see anyone say why they would vote for McInnis other than "so hickenlooper doesn't win." Not one single reason why anyone would want that guy.

[Jer]

I have yet to see anyone say why they would vote for McInnis other than "so hickenlooper doesn't win." Not one single reason why anyone would want that guy.

Exactly, yet people are still voting for him. How can these people sleep at night when there's a 'better man for the job' and they will even admit it. Wonder why our country is in such a bad state? It starts here.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Dan Maes

[Zundfolge]

I have yet to see anyone say why they would vote for McInnis other than "so hickenlooper doesn't win." Not one single reason why anyone would want that guy.

If Hickenlooper wins then Colorado is dead and we will now be East California. Period.

This state CAN NOT SURVIVE another term of a Democrat governor.

Based on these polls its pretty clear to me that Tancredo is going to cause Hickenlooper to win. So the death of a once great state is on his head.


Y'all can be third party idealists or ideological purists and vote for the guy you think would be best as governor (but has no chance of winning), but it will just mean a real hard left leaning Democrat in the highest executive office in the state.


Maybe someday in the future after we've instituted strong term limits and broken the backs of the entrenched interests in Denver and DC we can start voting for third party folk, but until then a vote for a "conservative" or "libertarian" third party candidate empowers the Democrat candidate.


But I'm pretty sure I'm wasting my breath (er ... fingers) yammering on about this ... for too many conservative/libertarian types The perfect has become the enemy of the good. And because of this I suspect that in Denver, DC and the rest of the country we're not going to be able to get rid of the bad in time to save the Republic.



EDIT
Ok, I have a question for you Tancredo supporters ... If Tancredo were to decide to drop out of the race would you vote for Hickenlooper or just not vote at all?

Ok, I posted a poll on this http://www.co-ar15.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26461