Doug Lamborn seems to incite hostility from some of his fellow local Republicans. If he runs for statewide office, I don’t expect him to go very far.
There are some competitive races in Colorado, including in the Boulder-based 2nd. district represented by openly gay Democrat Jared Polis.
Wait, Boulder is a competitive race, since when?
What has Lamborn done to alienate local Republicans? He’s one of the rare “class of 2006” freshman Republicans elected during a big midterm Democrat year (Roskam of Illinois also holds that distinction) , he’s a member of the tea party caucus, and his record on the issues seems to be pretty reliably in that camp. I can’t think of a valid reason to primary the guy. Seems like another example of conservatives eating their own when they should be going after RINOs like the 8 cap n’ traitors.
Jeff Crank was a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 5th Congressional District Republican Primary in 2008 and 2006...
Jeff served on the Washington staff of U.S. Congressman Joel Hefley from 1991-1998
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Pollis’ seat got slightly more Republican, from 64% Obama down to 61%. So Geo Bush maybe got 44% in 2004 in the new district (41% in the old) so I guess it’s possible but it’s a hell of any uphill fight
He does face a strong Republican in State Sen. Kevin Lundberg.
The race to watch is CD 6, Coffman-R, whom the crap redistricting(court drawn?) left with a swing seat.
CD 7 got a tiny bit better but still leans rat, Joe Coors Jr. is our candidate.
The partisan balance of the close but GOP edge CD 3 changed little. I expect freshman R Scott Tipton to hold it over rat State House leader Sal Pace.
Our only big redistricting winner was Freshman Cory Gardner who’s GOP leaning CD 4 was made safe.
More on the Pollis seat, GOP winner Lundberg narrowly beat a social liberal in the primary.