Rayburn to have another go at defeating Rep. Lamborn

"Ah, your post positively drips with patronization."

Obviously you have some anger issues and don't seem to be interested in a logical or rational discussion. As for me, I'm rather tired of slack-jawed yokels that think nobody outside their burg knows anything of their woes and the PC red herring bullcrap they spew, which is designed to silence folks that want to offer some perspective that is larger than themselves and their area. If you don't think your district matters to others outside of it, you're sadly mistaken, sir. In any event, you have a nice day.

21 posted on 10/05/2007 3:14:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))

>>>>Lamborn won the Republican primary with a 27% plurality in a 6-way race.

Six way primary races have a habit of producing plurality winners and not majority winners. The fact that Lamborn didn't get Hefley's endorsement, yet still managed to receive almost 60% of the vote in the general election is testament to his staunch conservatism. Jeff Crank brought in the RINO Hugh Hewitt from California, in a futile effort to improve his standing with 5th district voters. Didn't help him one bit. Lamborn still won!

22 posted on 10/05/2007 3:47:06 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Go Yankees!!!)

To: fieldmarshaldj; colorado tanker; jan in Colorado

Crank and Rayburn might be able to unseat the flaky Doug Lamborn in a two-candidate contest, but with both running, the anti-Lamborn vote will be hopelessly split. Lamborn is guaranteed another term now.

23 posted on 10/05/2007 4:09:27 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)

still managed to receive almost 60% of the vote in the general election is testament to his staunch conservatism.

Pshaw.... 60% is positively awful for a Republican in El Paso County. He got that amount for being a Republican in an overwhelmingly Republican district. By comparison, Joel Hefley routinely got over 70% of the vote in the same CD.

Where did that 12% of the vote go?

24 posted on 10/05/2007 7:21:50 PM PDT by r9etb

To: fieldmarshaldj

LOL! You’re amusing, but not impressive.

25 posted on 10/05/2007 7:23:17 PM PDT by r9etb

Lamborn didn't attain Hefley's vote level because of three reasons. First, Lamborn wasn't a 10 term, 20 year House veteran like Hefley was. People were just not familiar with Lamborn like they were with Hefley. Second, Hefley`s not endorsing Lamborn cost him some votes.

The biggest reason Lamborn didn't get a higher vote total, had to do with the Democratic National Committee`s nationwide election strategy for Congressional races in 2006. If you remember correctly, the entire Democratic Party power base made a big effort to find veterans who would appeal to Republicans disenchanted with the war in Iraq. Lamborn faced a Democrat nominee named Jay Fawcett. Fawcett was an Air Force veteran and he appealed to 40% of Springs voters. In case you didn't know, only about 40% of registered voters in El Paso County are Republicans.

60% is still a solid vote total for any Republican. I'd wager a bet that Lamborn's election totals in 2008 will be higher. How much higher? I don't know. And I expect Lamborn's American Conservative Union rating for 2007-2009 term will be right up there with Hefley's lifetime rating of 95.

26 posted on 10/05/2007 9:42:05 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Go Yankees!!!)

I smell the evil hand of Dobson in this.
Just like the OP ED hit piece by the Focus on the family employees.

27 posted on 10/10/2007 5:17:30 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)

Dobson Offers Insight on 2008 Republican Hopefuls

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070328/28dobson.htm

28 posted on 10/10/2007 5:37:15 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)

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