Could it really be? From PolitckerCO.com:
If U.S. Rep. Mark Udall (D-Eldorado Springs) is successful in his challenge of U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Loveland), Allard would be just the sixth incumbent U.S. Senator from Colorado to lose a re-election race.
Since direct elections began in Colorado in 1912, there are only five instances of incumbent U.S. Senators losing to challengers. The first time was in 1918 when Lawrence Phipps (R) unseated U.S. Sen. John Shafroth (D). More than four relatively uneventful decades passed until Peter Dominick (R) defeated John Carroll (D) in 1962. In 1972, Floyd Haskell (D) narrowly defeated Gordon Allott (R) only to be unseated six years later by William Armstrong (R). Most recently, then-U.S. Rep. Wayne Allard (R) defeated incumbent U.S. Sen. Tom Strickland (D) in 1996.
Did I miss a “fantasy league” tag on that post, or is “Wally Edge” living in some kind of parallel universe where Wayne Allard is running for a third term? I’ll admit that Bob Schaffer is a bit of a doofus as a candidate, but are we all trying to pretend that he doesn’t exist months before he loses to Mark Udall in November?
Also: In what plane of existence was Democrat Tom Strickland an incumbent US Senator in 1996?
Someone might want to check the coffee over at Politicker’s HQ…
UPDATE: The Politicker has caught the error, and completely re-wrote the post — wiping over their original entry and making no mention of their update. (Lame.)