McInnis Loses, Maes and Tancredo to Face Hickenlooper for Gov

By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 08:29:00 AM EST
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In a very close race, businessman Dan Maes has beat Scott McInnis for the Colorado Republican Gubernatorial election in November. The Post says Tancredo will run against both Maes and Hickenlooper. Best thing that could happen. Maes and Tancredo will split the Republican vote and likable Mayor Hickenlooper will sail to victory.

There could be a required recount in the Maes-McInnis race.

There still remained a possibility the primary may drag through another week. If two candidates finish within the margin of half a percentage point, it triggers an automatic recount in Colorado. A candidate may also request a recount if the margin is larger, but has to pay for it.

At midnight, with 100% reporting, the votes were Dan Maes (196,560) 50.6
Scott McInnis (191, 209) 49.3

Maes "ran as the underdog, the non-establishment candidate, backed by Tea Party supporters but without much money." He explained his platform tonight:

He said that if he becomes govenor, he plans to "eliminate the influence of unions on state employees, stop subsidizing abortions." He added that he also will reverse Gov. Bill Ritter's increase in vehicle registration fees and will "enroll the state in a program that deports illegal alien criminals."

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Maes can say goodbye to the Latino vote -- and the vote of just about every other intelligent group in the state. He's got less political experience than Hickenlooper, and the Dems will be lining up to give Hickenlooper money for November. Republicans can blame the implosion of their party on McInnis, and they need to rebuild, but whether they can do that before 2012 is anyone's guess. I give it very long odds.

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Anyone else (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by CST on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 10:02:43 AM EST

find it ironic that the "kick out the Mexicans" crowd is also the anti-union crowd?

I thought the whole "problem" with immigration was that it drives down wages. Frankly, it's this type of thing that makes me think it's all full of $hit and it's really about too many brown people.

If it were really about the wages and opportunities of the working-class - there wouldn't be union-bashing in the same breath.

: It's just all about hate (none / 0) (#4)
by magster on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 10:09:34 AM EST

If the Dems can hang on this fall, I really think this might be the GOPs last hurrah. It just makes me so mad thinking about Obama's potential with all the enthusiasm from his election to go Wall Street and demoralize his base. The GOPs last hurrah should have been 2004, not 2010.

I'll bet Scooter... (none / 0) (#1)
by MileHi Hawkeye on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 10:00:33 AM EST

demands a recount. The question will be if he can afford it or not, having just paid back the 300K he got for his plagiarism scam.

The State party doesn't want either one of these losers and is trying to get the founder of ReMax to run against the Hick.

Trying to find out more about Ken Buck... (none / 0) (#3)
by magster on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 10:05:38 AM EST

... apparently he chaired Marilyn Musgrave's failed reelection campaign two years ago.

The Colorado GOP definitely has its crazy hate thing going on for the general election.

Hickenlooper's running mate (none / 0) (#6)
by christinep on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 03:09:08 PM EST

Speaking of the antidote to the hate-mongering in this state and elsewhere: Our gubernatorial candidate, John Hickenlooper, recently named the president of Colorado State University @Pueblo as the lieutenant governor candidate to run with him. Joe Garcia, a previous member of Gov. Romer's administration, is widely acclaimed as an administrator. In the Republicans' zealotry regarding Latinos/as, the Hickenlooper-Garcia team--without saying more--will stand in sharp contrast.