Colorado Governor: Ritter (D) 43%, Beauprez (R) 38%

Bill Ritter (D) 43%
Bob Beauprez (R) 38%

Bill Ritter (D) 47%
Mark Holtzman (R) 33%

Still, Colorado has been trending toward the Democrats. And Republicans have been bogged down recently by in-fighting, having to do partly with the nationwide Republican malaise; partly with the passage last November of a measure, Referendum C, that weakens the state's tax-capping TABOR law; and partly with voting procedures at last month's assembly.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/May%202006/ColoradoGovernor.htm

Good news, but a hell of a change since I lived there (92-96). Back then, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council seemed ready to take oer the world, much less the state they were in.

I've been hoping for a turn to blue, and I hope Ritter can keep riding this trend.

Dobson's Fungus on the Family group in Colorado Springs just burned a lot of cash on large ads in several U.S. newspapers in an effort to intimidate "pro-gay" senators.

Since the initiative failed pretty soundly and pretty swiftly, despite David Vitter's proclamation that the amendment to ban same-sex marriage was the most important issue of our epoch, Dobson and the people who vote to his badly tuned fiddle have had a kind of bad week. They appear not to have a choke-hold on voters elsewhere, or national trends anywhere. Roy Moore, as unbalanced an ultra-conservative as you could possible expect to find, got his xeophobic hindend whupped good by Riley in their Alabama gubernatorial race.

Go, Bill Ritter out there in the beautiful Rockies.

Ritter 46%

Holtzman 34%

Diebold 85%


Wherever Diebold goes, polls become meaningless. Hope I'm wrong.

When I see Allard, the Repub Senator that Diebold put in over Strickland, I'm reminded of that election in 02. Strickland had a good lead in the polls before the election, but none of that means anything when you're put up against Diebold, which controls a large percentage of the vote.

Ritter should make plans to contest the election if and when he loses because with those kind of poll numbers, he should win handily, that is, in the real vote.

Diebold was around for those elections, but we still won.