November 03, 2010 10:01 AM
Colorado Senate Race: Close Results Threatened Recount -- But Bennet pulls it out
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It sure was a weird finish in Colorado. Late last night, Ken Buck led Michael Bennet in Colorado by 400 votes or so. At least, I think that was the case. After holding a small lead all night, Buck suddenly surged about the time Boulder County results were coming in. According to the video here, there may have been a transposition error by the AP or by the Colorado Secretary of State.
Later the AP asserted there was no error. Which meant that the Colorado Senate race was headed for an automatic recount.
But then this morning, Bennet was declared the winner. The remaining votes to be counted, it seems, are from precincts where he was already running strong.
I guess when Bennet pulled it out, Buck felt inept.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Man....I'm almost longing for the days when we would rip up the trolls that popped up here. Good Times.
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
But was it rammed down his throat?
I'm kind of curious how all the Teabagging jokers did as a whole and how "Palin's picks" did. I'm guessing as a whole they didn't do as well as the Teabaggers would have thought but at least Christine O'Donnell thinks she is going to be able to tell the new Senator of Delaware what to do since she only lost by 17 points and has so much power now. Hehe.
Buck was a loser Teabagger wasn't he? No need to answer.
Here:
Corruption favors the wealthy.
... to support candidates who represent one's RATIONAL-INFORMED views .....
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
...there have been few times, if there ever were any, when I've been more ashamed to be an American citizen as I am today and this is why.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
Here's an idea: We ought to make an Act of Congress that permanently rescinds your right to vote if you sit out two elections in a row. How one can call oneself an American while refusing to vote yet whining about who gets in, who gets tossed out while accepting federal benefits in a countless variety of ways is loathsome, despicable and ought to be grounds for a recission in citizenship or at least some of its benefits.
Yes. Plus, punishing the Democrats does not work when the Republicans and press can change the narrative so easily. They will sell this as the people rejecting progressives, and most people will see it that way. The 'punishers' are just clever trolls.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Its guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, & and want to show up at the next one....
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100-best-s...
Probably needs its own thread today...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Frog found in frozen vegetables?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The Colorado Democratic Party is the best. Better than the other states in my opinion. I'm glad they got the victory. They deserve it.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
WAY better than the other option.
I hear the other guy is a crazy Buck!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Just as in most previous nation-wide elections it appears that the left and right coasts are blue and the red is in between. It is my opinion that the red states are, as a whole, less educated than the blue states. This opinion I have gathered from what the denizens of the red states attempt to articulate, and that the only thing most of them understand is 'tax cuts', and immediately say 'yes, that's for me', and they don't understand that the country and the states and the counties and cities need revenue to give us all the things that [used to] make this country great, but no longer is this the case.
Then there are those who like the idea of 'get the government off my back', we are already over regulated. To those I say: Ask any motorcycle rider who had his hear run over by another vehicle, the bicycle rider who crashed he head into a wall or a tree, the automobile driver/rider who was saved by air bags. Ask those whose bank went under but their money was safe due to the FDIC.
I couyld list a myriad of other items, but you get the idea.
Tax cuts [if any] must be tempered by the requirement of governments to function properly, and there are many things ONLY a government can do - properly
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
America also has more democrats that republicans. If a straight up majority were to win, the Republicans would not stand a chance.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Not so unsubstantiated after all. There's a post on this site that's about a year old that has hard numbers.
Iron Law of Birtherism
...the fact that the race was so close -- to the point that a state like Colorado with a fair-sized progressive population nearly sent a rabidly neo-Libertarian right-winger to Washington -- doesn't strike me as a particularly good sign.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
voter fixing, just when did we ever had an election that the vote wan "NOT" fixed.....
Buck, Bennet, Colorado. Senate.
I know all about this race, but some people reading this might not - just think party affiliation should always be mentioned for the sake of clarification.
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...that liberal county Boulder would deliver 30 - 40K votes to Tea Party nutter Buck. Somebody screwed up somewhere and it wasn't Boulder county voters.
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