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Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper launches campaign for Senate

tres borrachos said:
Hickenlooper was the most moderate of the bunch, which is why he appealed to me.

Cindy McCain wrote a piece published by Wapo this morning about her husband. He was a partisan to his core, but he also knew that compromise was critical, and being in the middle was best for the country. Hickenlooper was like McCain in that regard.

I don't want extremists, and I don't want anyone who won't compromise. The best Presidents of my lifetime were the ones who would work across the aisle.
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I hope this trend continues, of the people actually wanting those who reach across the aisle. For the first time since she won her first Senate race in 96, I feel like Susan Collins might actually have a fight on her hands for re-election.
At this point I would be happy with her not being declared the winner, the minute the polls close. But there are a lot of angry women up here who have been speaking out, loudly.
 
Obscurity said:
I find this sort of commentary hilarious, and it's based in the moronic notion that the US exists in a vaccuum.

For example; MFA is not radical, at all. Only in this country is it considered irrational. Seeking viable alternatives to finite fossil fuels is not radical. Investing in the future of a greater america via public funded secondary education is not radical. In fact, most proposals are only labeled radical by two types of people; centre right people, and right people. That's it.

Why is it, for example, 60 cents on every dolllar taken in taxes by the government has to go to the military? As an american, I find it extremely disturbing that advances that would promote and enhance the common good for all of our people are seen as radical, but our extreme military budget and investment in inhumane, extremist wars, are something we just sweep under the rug.
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It all comes down to messaging and how it is handled.
Do you think that most people who hate the ACA know that its seeds and some of its features are from the Heritage Foundation? Of course not, that was not part of the messaging.
Say what you want about Republicans, they all get behind the Mule and push. Democrats, not so much, and they suck at messaging. I would have been all "You guys hate this? You ****ing wrote it." And I would have said it every day.
 
tres borrachos said:
Hey Pero,

I know you are thinking CO flips. What are the other 2 Democratic Senate pickups you're assuming - and what is the loss?
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Maine and Arizona. Alabama reverts to the GOP. Net loss of two seats for the Democrats leaving the senate 51-49 GOP. Although one needs to keep a close eye on North Carolina and my home state of Georgia. With the right candidate they could switch too. Way too early to tell. The rest at the time look like no change. Nothing official here until I start my forecasts. The house, the GOP gains 8-10 seats, not a threat to retake the house. Just some Republican districts coming home.
 
Lovebug said:
I don't correspond with people who are argumentative and rude.
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This is a debate forum, not a consensus forum. Moreover, nothing I've said is directly rude; except of course, your refusal to discuss the valid points I've made.

To each their own - can lead a horse to water, and all that jazz.
 
Perotista said:
Maine and Arizona. Alabama reverts to the GOP. Net loss of two seats for the Democrats leaving the senate 51-49 GOP. Although one needs to keep a close eye on North Carolina and my home state of Georgia. With the right candidate they could switch too. Way too early to tell. The rest at the time look like no change. Nothing official here until I start my forecasts. The house, the GOP gains 8-10 seats, not a threat to retake the house. Just some Republican districts coming home.
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They keep calling NH a seat that may switch to the GOP, but I don't see it at all. The competition Shaheen will face would have given me the willies even when I was a faithful Republican voter.
 
Lovebug said:
What would happen if everyone lit one up?

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We’d run out of Doritos
 
tres borrachos said:
They keep calling NH a seat that may switch to the GOP, but I don't see it at all. The competition Shaheen will face would have given me the willies even when I was a faithful Republican voter.
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Shaheen is safe. I don't see anyone that can beat her.
 
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