Primary day in Colorado, Nevada, and Connecticut
Did you know it’s primary day in three states today? Some bellwether results will be due out later tonight from Colorado, Nevada, and Connecticut. High turnout expected in battleground Colorado. If you’re casting votes in any of these races, let us know.
Voters go to the polls Tuesday for primary elections in three states, including Colorado, where the winners of highly competitive races in three of the Rocky Mountain state’s congressional districts are expected to coast to victory in November’s general elections.
While the general election battle between Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and former Republican Rep. Bob Schaffer for Colorado’s Senate seat has generated considerable attention, the three-way Democratic race for Udall’s 2nd District seat has been fierce.
Former state Sen. Joan Fitz-Gerald and businessman Jared Polis, a former chairman of the state Board of Education, have been targeting each other while environmentalist Will Shafroth has tried to stay above the fray, snagging the endorsements of both the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News…
…Elsewhere in the state, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., who emerged from a bruising 2006 primary to claim the 5th District seat, will again face down businessman Jeff Crank in the heavily conservative district. Lamborn defeated Crank by 892 votes in 2006. But standing in Crank’s way to victory Tuesday is another candidate from the 2006 contest, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Bradley Rayburn.
…Other primary elections will be held in Nevada and Connecticut, including a surprisingly bitter primary fight that has been brewing in Connecticut’s 4th District, long a target of Democrats hoping to unseat the GOP Rep. Christopher Shays, New England’s only House Republican.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has backed Greenwich Democratic Party Chairman Jim Himes, who had over $1.3 million cash on hand at the end of July. Himes is the heavy favorite over activist and substitute teacher Lee Whitnum, who petitioned her way onto the ballot after boycotting the state party’s nominating convention.
In Nevada, Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley and GOP Reps. Jon Porter and Dean Heller are all expected to easily dispatch their primary opposition. Porter is expected to face state Sen. Dina Titus, a heavy favorite in the Democratic primary.
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Reader Sylvia, “a soccer mom from Castle Rock, CO who never voted for Bill Clinton,” e-mails:
“I voted this morning and it was pretty quiet but a little early. The polling place for me is across the street from the elementary school which goes into session tomorrow so I expect people will trickle in to vote through the day. I am supporting Bob Schaeffer since he has long been a good guy for CO.”
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I voted this morning in the Republican congressional primary for Steve Ward. I was the only voter there and had to wait fifteen minutes for the tech support to figure out how to work the electronic voting machines.
Oh, that was in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
The Democrats primary race in the Colorado 2nd congressional district (includes Boulder) will interesting. The race is between a very wealthy Jared Polis who is using his own money in an attempt to buy the election, Colorado state senator Joan Fitz-Gerald and Will Shafroth (endorsed by the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News). So far it’s been positive ads on TV and radio by Will Shafroth and a TV ad mudslinging battle over who supports big oil between Polis and Fitz-Gerald. The Democrat who wins this race will win in November because CO-02, like CO-01 in Denver will always be a Democratic seat. I hope Shafroth wins today because he appears to be the most reasonable of the three.
too bad it’s not one to oust Harry “tommy” Reid out of office from Nevada.
The nation responds with a resounding SNORE!!!!!
Yeah. The rude awakening will come in November.
You aren’t kidding michelle, but for now the issue has been decided as far as the primary goes. Having earned my right to vote the hard way, i ALWAYS vote reguardless but I know I am in the minority. Todays primary will be mostly ignored.
i try to keep abreast of what is going on in other states when it comes to voting. i can only hope that conservatives will pick up some seats. we cannot afford a veto proof congress. i can’t help but think the nation snores, because the media dictates what is news as only part of the problem, the other part is the US of Entertainment fascination.
Sad..
Milquetoast Republican Representative Christopher Shays is running unopposed here in the CT 4th District primary.
CT has been trending left since 1992. If Shays gets unseated on November 4th, CT is gone.
Don’t forget, the WA primary is Tuesday 8/19.
Incumbent Christine Gregoire(D), despite her ability to raise money far longer than opponent Dino Rossi(R), she has barely more cash on hand than he does. Her dinner with Michelle Obama barely helped. They are in a dead heat in the polls. If there are any fellow WA residents here, please make sure you vote next Tuesday. Call for an absentee ballot if you have to.
Position where one can and strike in November.
Early voted Monday, Ariz. Congressnal Dist.8, doubt we’ll be much help, this is such a pro illegal, entitlement grabing area. Boy, I hope I’m wrong.
I voted in Las Vegas last week, and sorry I have to wait until Harry Reid comes up in 2011, to vote his sorry behind out!!!
When I think about Nevada politics, I just have to laugh, we have a governor having trouble getting his ex out of the mansion, and an embarassing judge falling asleep & buying dinners for jurors, and still fighting 11 complaints, wanting to know why the voters won’t vote for her anymore…
(We WISELY still elect judges!)
We modified the constitution to force term limits, and 23 of them just found out, whining, threatening, posturing…
(bunch of crying prima-donnas…)
Hilarity ensues…
You aren’t kidding.
Faithfully departed Ronald Reagan, Pray for us!
Extremely quiet in Denver. No heated primary battles for the open Senate seat, but the Dem primary in CD-2 and the GOP primaries in CD-5 and CD-6 will determine the next representative from those districts, as the respective parties hold nearly insurmountable majorities.
Michelle,
there is, however, Initiative 100 in Denver, which would:
The Dem-controlled City Council opposed the measure 10-1, and we’ll see what the voters decide tonight.
I’ll keep you updated.
Lucky to live in CO-6, Tancredo retiring, and Armstrong or Coffman will do fine as a replacement.
I mentally flipped a coin and voted Armstrong.
Only problem with Coffman winning the bid will cause him to leave the only state-wide office held by the GOP, and put an unelelcted Dem appointee in charge of the election process, eaving it wide open to partisan manipulation.
Coffman should have finished his term, and fired up for a run at the shale-oil obstructing flip-flopping open-borders Sen Salazar.
But either way, we are OK.
I am hoping that Shafroth pulls it off up in CO-2 in Boulder. I loathe Jared Polis, who is a rabid homosexual activist and has been the weasel behind some of the worst smears the state has seen, hiding behind 527’s that he funds to run the smears. He is fundamentally arrogant and dishonest, and he is still arguing to pull the troops out immediately (fool). Joan Fitzgerald is just another Liberal Dem Pol. Shafroth seems to be the only one up there willign to at least listen and learn before he acts.
::sigh:: I think we all know what is coming. Is it too late to start over again?
“Then it comes to be that the soothing light
At the end of your tunnel
Was just a freight train comin your way “
Looks like Coffman will win in CO-6 (And vace CO Sec State, leaving the full state govt in the hands of Dems), Lamborn has won thanks to that retired AF guy splitting the opposition against him.
On the Dem side, too soon to tell if that jack*ss Polis was able to buy/smear his way to a win.
Our only hope is to insure conservative seats filled in both houses of congress.
Regardless whether bho or jmccain is elected POTUS, taxes are going up. We have to have enough conservative representation in both houses to stop the tax increases due to their views on global warming and immigration.
Great song from a great album. I think I’ll throw that on now!
I proudly voted in our primary yesterday because my son voted for the first time with me. When he was little, I would always take him with me when I voted and he was very excited to vote. Most of the votes were on non-partisan judges and he skipped over those only voting in two races.
When he said he didn’t know enough to vote on the judges, I told him don’t worry, I would just mark his sample ballot for him. He was having none of that though. So, I’m so proud he voted but I didn’t get my second vote like I wanted.