John Aloysius Farrell thinks that the 2006 election could see much trouble for Repulicans. Here's his article from today's Denver Post [October 30, 2005, "Republican agonistes"]. He writes, "It's a good thing, if you are a Republican, that your annus horribili arrived in 2005. 'If this were October 2006 ... yes, the Republicans would lose their House majority,' says GOP pollster Frank Luntz. The Republican Party's troubles have left next year's mid-term election looking like a donnybrook, with perhaps double the expected number of fiercely contested House races. And while it might take the political equivalent of drawing an inside straight for Democrats to seize control of the Senate, the outside party is raising money by the bucket and beating its foe at candidate recruitment. In state after state, GOP governors, popular state officials and House stars are declining to run for the Senate in 2006, wary of a Democratic wave."
While not part of Denver elections (Diana DeGette seems safe), it looks like Bob Beauprez's open seat, Marilyn Musgrave's seat and John Salazar's seat are all going to have strong challengers in 2006 from both parties. That should be fun to watch.
Pro-choice Democrats are still trying to recruit a primary opponent for Bill Ritter, according to the Denver Post [October 30, 2005, "Pro-choice Dems seek a candidate"]. From the article, "When Joan Fitz-Gerald announced that she will not run for governor in 2006, she left a well-organized group of powerful political activists deeply disappointed. Sure, the same grizzled old buzzards in the Colorado Democratic Party who underestimated Gail Schoettler in 1998 had spent weeks dissing Fitz-Gerald's chances. Still, the state Senate president was fielding endless calls from savvy, well-heeled Democrats, checkbooks at the ready, saying, 'Run, Joan, run.' It was not to be. Running for governor would be 'a tremendous honor,' Fitz-Gerald said Wednesday, but she felt compelled to finish her term in the Senate. For the pro-choice community, which by most polls represents more than 60 percent of Colorado voters, Fitz-Gerald's announcement was a blow."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
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