Former GOP congressman Bob Beauprez announced tonight that he will not be running against Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo).
“Having been presented with the potential to serve in the United States Senate, Claudia and I considered it very carefully. However after significant reflection, I will not be a candidate for the Senate in 2010,” Beauprez said in a statement.
A recent PPP poll had Beauprez beating Bennet by three points, but his favorability numbers were way underwater (30-40) — evidence of a lingering hangover that voters are having with the Beauprez brand after an embarrassing gubernatorial campaign in 2006. But it’s also evidence that Bennet will have to campaign hard (a new concept for him) even if the GOP selects a ham sandwich as its nominee.
ColoradoPols takes the news as a good sign that former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton (who served for a term under Bill Owens) is in. Norton’s husband said last week that she’ll make a decision on the race “in 30 days“.
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So . . . what kind of contender are we looking at here? Does anyone know anything about her? Her Wikipedia page is quite sparse (not even a picture)
It seems with the relatively unknown profiles of the two remaining GOP contenders, and Bennett’s new-ness to Coloradans, this could come down to a close race like Gary Hart had in 1980 or Tim Wirth did in 1986.
Bennett may only win by some 10,000 plus votes, so he definitely has to play up to his party’s recent strengths in the Denver suburbs and down the central parts of the state.
has to be the luckiest SOB out there; he keeps dodging bullets inexplicably (or, rather, people with a good shot choose not to fire).
Everytime I read something about Bennet I want to find Ritter and punch him or something. What the hell was he thinking picking this guy with such a strong bench?
before he was governor of Colorado. It sounds like he has no political experience and just got elected in a complete democratic wave.
colorado senate race but i didnt want to post a 2 sentence diary just to ask a question.
i’m working on a diary about redistricting and reaportionemnt and i’ve been looking for a document that i have seen before which shows the priority number for each seat after computing the population data using the huntington-hill method for 2000, it’s an offical document, the one they used for reaportionment in 2000/2001, there used to be a link to it on the wikipedia page about reaportionment but it isn’t there any more, i cant seem to find it on the census.gov website either, if anyonce can help me find it i’d be really greatful.
thanks!
because the only way I can see Bennet being chosen is through some conflict of interest.