Polls have now closed in Colorado, where we’ll be following the results in the CO-02, CO-05, and CO-06 primaries. Polls have also closed in Connecticut as of an hour ago; results for CT-04 are available here.
RESULTS: Associated Press | 9News
1:31AM: Polis declares victory. And it only cost him $5.3 million.
12:02AM: Sorry for the lack of updates; I just sliced a thumb in a kitchen mishap and decided to tend to that. Polis is still up by 1300 votes with 27% in. Lamborn (lucky bastard) and Coffman appear to be winners. Looks like the CO SoS will be turning blue in 2009.
10:54PM: 15% reporting in CO-02, and Polis is producing a bit of daylight: 43-39 (1400 votes).
10:51PM: That’s more like it. With 93% reporting, Mike Coffman leads Wil Armstrong by 42-32 (5600 votes). Looks like he has this one in the bag.
10:38PM: 10% reporting in CO-02, and Polis leads by 500 votes.
10:29PM: I think it’s ganja break time in CO-05 and CO-06…
10:23PM: Michael Phelps wins Gold #10!
10:18PM: 29 of 457 precincts reporting in CO-02 (6%), and Polis’ lead is trimmed down to 450 votes.
9:49PM: 4% reporting in CO-02, and Polis leads by 600 votes. And just in case you missed it, the AP called CT-04 for Jim Himes.
9:43PM: Thousands of votes are pouring in now. In CO-02, Polis leads by 42-40 (570 votes), while in CO-05, Lamborn has pulled ahead to a 46-29-26 (Crank-Rayburn) lead. Over in CO-06, Coffman is up big with a 42-32 lead.
9:36PM: Polis now leads by 42-38.
9:27PM: Some early numbers from CO-05: With a single precinct reporting, Lamborn leads Crank by three votes.
9:21PM: Coffman is leading Wil Armstrong by a 41-36 margin in the early ballots. With 0% of precincts reporting, many more votes are yet to be counted, of course.
9:17PM: Over in CT-04, SSP favorite Jim Himes is crushing loon candidate Lee Whitnum by 91-9 with 39% in.
9:15PM ET: The early votes are in, and Polis leads Fitz-Gerald by 41-38 in CO-02. This could be close.
Polis leads Fitzgearld 41% to 38%, my candidate, Shafroth, is in last place with 21%.
Whitnum is only getting 9%, that’s still 9% too much. 369 votes for her so far with 39% reporting. Who the hell are the other 368 people that actually voted for this loon?? My Left Nutmeg shows that only the candidates’ names were on the ballot, so there wasn’t anything like “educator” after Whitnum’s name (which was how Marta Jorgensen beat two better-funded opponents in the CA-24 primary in May).
Mike Coffman is ahead of Will Armstrong 41% to 36%, my candidate, Harvey, is in third with 12%, Steve Ward has 10%.
Lamborn is ahead of Crank in early vote counts 41% to 36%, Rayburn has 23%.
is he the son of the former Senator Bill Armstrong?
Coffman still leads Armstrong by a small margin, but Harvey, my candidate, is in last place behind Ward by a 2% margin.
At this point, the combined vote for Crank and Rayburn beats Lamborn by 8 points. Oh, if only those two worked out that deal they had…
Speaking of 46%, that’s within my margin of prediction 🙂
Go Jared!
And looks like Coffman will pull it out so go Fitz-Gerald (or Polis if he loses) for appointment as Secretary of State!
Coffman and Lamborn will win so I guess I support them now.
It seems Polis has had the most publicity on the liberal blogs, so I’m assuming he’s the best candidate running.
Those CO-02 numbers are just rolling in like gangbusters. I just don’t know how on earth I’m containing myself.
Glad to see Jared doing well. He had received some bad press over some of his investments and what not. I figured that would hurt him and it still might.
Still a lot of votes to be counted but I’m starting to get exited!
… how are you doing?
Polis won, Yessss, I cannot believe it, I love this.
Yes he is
Another crash and burn for Emily Malcolm and the rest of the paleo-feminists at EMILY’S List.
What are the differences between the candidates?
A Coffman win means Dems will pick up the CO Sec of State office and leave the GOP clinging to only Atty Gen as their last statewide office (assuming a Udall Senate win in Nov).
all your candidates are going to lose.
Seriously.
The only one with any shot of winning is Crank, and I still give him only a 20% chance of doing it. Harvey has no chance in hell against Coffman and Armstrong, and Shafroth likewise has no chance in hell against FitzGerald and Polis.
Specifically, Harvey raised almost no money at all, while Shafroth raised quite a bit, but didn’t put up any TV ads at all until after early voting had already started. He moved too late.
Don’t trust me, look at the predictions on ColoradoPols. They’re a pretty astute bunch of people over there… the editors, anyway. The “Big Line” on the left has been tracking these campaigns since about June of 2007.
Anyway, I’m not saying this to crush you, but it looked like there was some extensive lamentation coming and I wanted to at least not have it dragged out across multiple hours.
He will be a great replacement for Udall!
I’ve been following this race at ColoradoPols for a while, and I think there’s going to be some fairly strong regionality to the returns. Meaning people are expecting Polis to run really strongly in Boulder city and County, but for FitzGerald to dominate in much of the rest of the district, including the ski country parts. Anyway, depending on which counties and parts of counties are reporting, one or the other could easily build up a “lead” that isn’t real.
The campaigns are using precinct-level returns to predict out the rest of the vote, but I don’t know of any blog with that kind of campaign sources (the Colorado Pols guys have plenty, but they don’t actually post that kind of stuff, they’re more of a quasi-mainstream-press blog).
So, sure, I want Polis to win too, but let’s not assume he has it in the bag when he’s up by 4 with 16% of the vote in.
Unless you know more about the details, in which case, spill it!!
So far, Coffman, Polis, and Lamborn are winning. This is SE-779 signing off.
Fitz-Gerald won the CD-2 convention rather handily so she may have comeback potential. Still votes to count although the CO results have moved surprisingly little over the course of the evening. Colorado Pols seemed like a better info source for this primary than Square State or the Denver papers. Didn’t look beyond that.
Now for the other primary: Nevada. It’s Berkley, Derby and Titus for the Dems by a comfortable margin early and re-nomination to Dean Heller and Jon Porter. NV-1 is the only semi interesting race of the night with Kenneth Wegner leading a 7 person Republican field with 34%. The Secretary of State has the results allegedly available at http://www.silverstate08.com. I can only seem to get results via the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s link to the sos. For the lazy,like me, that’s available via Politics1 and their list of newspapers.
Good. Then they can do something about their slow counting of votes and/or reporting of results.
There have no been updates forever in CO-02.
Get your act together AP! It’s closing in on midnight.
Please don’t remind me of the failures of my candidates.
http://www.openleft.com/showDi…
Seems he has better sources than the AP. Or does he? Strange.
I didn’t know. But hey, they’re Republicans and this year I think everyone expects them to be failures regardless.
His steady lead looks promising!
with a 1400 vote lead at 27% reporting
I just hope he can hold on to it
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Sucks for her; she put in her time, was good in the State Senate, and would have been a good Congresswoman.
But it fucking rocks for Polis. I’d give a hundred bucks to see James Dobson’s face right now.
And Polis is frickin young. At 33 and already a congressman… if he doesn’t make any big mistakes, is careful with money/contributions/etc, doesn’t do any crooked earmarks, and is pretty sensible about where he puts his dipstick, then he could have an interesting career.
His choices are 1) House leadership, 2) statewide? (doable in 16 years, I’d say), 3) get bored, get sloppy, make mistakes, flame out.
I wonder who are the youngest congressfolks right now. Tim Ryan is 35, Chris Murphy is also 35, and I don’t know of anyone younger offhand.
Hopefully an act of God will prevent Aaron Schock from ever having a congressional career.
Hoooooooooooray!
Fitz-Gerald for Secretary of State!
You may recall Bruce was the Colorado state representative who called immigrants “illiterate peasants“, and wouldn’t back away from his remarks.
Well, tonight, he lost to newcomer Mark Waller. This is somewhat similar to the Phil Kline race in Kansas, where ANY Republican is better than having that scumbag Republican stay in power.