In an ABC television interview on the program THIS WEEK Governors John Kasich and John Hickenlooper, Republican of Ohio and Democrat of Colorado respectively, declared the apparent imminent end of the dominance of the two-old, two party system in the US.
Kasich told ABC TV’s White House Chief Correspondent Jonathan Karl,
“I don’t think either party is answering people’s deepest concerns and needs .… Read more ...
From the Denver Post via TPID:
“I went to dinner at 6 o’clock and kept thinking ‘This is really going to work,’ ” Tancredo said in an interview with The Denver Post on Thursday. “And of course it didn’t. I’m content in the fact that it’s part of God’s plan.… Read more ...
According to a comment by Kimberly Wilder on our Results coming in page,
For Colorado Governor, with 5% of precincts reporting:
John Hickenlooper (Dem) at 57%
Tom Tancredo (AMC) at 31%
This is late breaking news. See the PPS:
First, I want to tell you the latest. With one day to go we remain in a statistical dead heat with the tax and spend, pro-amnesty Hickenlooper. It’s just remarkable! Hickenlooper has spent over $4 million in his campaign and we just broke $1 million last week.… Read more ...
From The Business Word. H/T Cody Quirk:
… Read more ...…David Flaherty, president and CEO of Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, a Louisville, CO, pollster that works for Republicans around the country. In a phone interview, Flaherty said polls that show John Hickenlooper winning the gubernatorial race are using demographics and turnout numbers that incorrectly skew their results in favor of Democrats.
LifeNews.com reports
… Read more ...The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Colorado shows Hickenlooper with a 47% to 42% lead over Tancredo, a former GOP congressman.
Maes, the failed Republican candidate whose campaign has died due to scandals and other problems, gets the support of 5 percent of voters — just enough to prevent Tancredo from tying Hickenlooper.
Jessica Fender in the Denver Post:
Would-be governor Tom Tancredo and his surrogates have run a full-court press on GOP rival Dan Maes in recent weeks, snaking supporters out from under the struggling candidate and upping pressure for Maes to exit the three-way race.
With the former Republican congressman within single digits of Democrat John Hickenlooper in a few public polls, some of the pressure has been overt.… Read more ...
More polling news from the Tancredo campaign:
Another poll has been released and the news just keeps getting better.
This time the poll comes from the left-leaning Public Policy Institute Poll and it has us within 3% points of Hickenlooper: 47% to 44% with Maes dropping to an all-time low of 5%.… Read more ...
This is from the VERY ACTIVE Tancredo campaign:
We are now within one point of Hickenlooper!
This is amazing news and I wanted you to have it as soon as possible.
The latest poll results are: 44%-Hickenlooper, 43%-Tancredo, 9%-Maes.
And we have all the momentum! After a year of campaigning and four million dollars, Hickenlooper just cannot move his poll numbers.… Read more ...
Several stories at TPID today about the Constitution Party:
CO-Gov: Progressives Debate Import of Tancredo’s Third Party Candidacy
… Read more ...Over at The Huffington Post, liberal blogger Jessica Corry is making “The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo.” According to Corry, Tancredo’s victory “could mean a handful of policy goodies long championed by liberal progressives.” She believes that Tancredo’s “strong libertarian foundation…when communicated the right way, is both moderate and pragmatic.” .
Faith Mangan at Fox News Blog reports that, with Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo polling within 4% of frontrunner Democrat John Hickenlooper and Republican Dan Maes now at 10% and dropping, numerous elected Republicans are now pulling their support from Maes and switching to Tancredo.
If Maes ends up with less than 10% of the vote, the Republican Party will lose major party status in Colorado.… Read more ...
The following is from the Tancredo campaign:
At midnight tonight, my Road to Victory Money Bomb comes to an end.
Tomorrow morning, my campaign manager – Bay Buchanan – will make our final media purchases.
My campaign a still far away from her original goal, but I have some wonderful news:
Due to a technical issue, the Money Bomb ticker did not count a large number of donations.… Read more ...