GOP fears losing majority party status in Colorado

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Source: AP / Washington Post

DENVER -- Colorado Republicans fear their party will become a minor party and lose fundraising advantages in the 2012 presidential election if its candidate for governor, tea party favorite Dan Maes, gets less than 10 percent of the vote on Nov. 2.

It's a stunning prospect for a party that has the largest number of registered voters in Colorado and is working hard to elect a Republican U.S. senator and regain at least one U.S. House seat this November.

"It probably will happen," said Republican state party chairman Dick Wadhams. "Voters are asking, 'Why would I waste my vote on Maes? '"

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101900391.html

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[bemildred]

1. Sounds like good fun to watch. nt

[pasto76]

2. Allah willing, this is how it will go down.

Maes is not popular our here at all. The Gov race is between Hickenlooper and Tancredo. Tancredo has run for all kinds of office since I moved here 10 years ago, and lost every time. Its like dude, go find something else to do - you're a republican in a crazy republican state and can't get elected to anything. Hickenlooper is in fact a republican kind of man. He has cut enormous amounts of spending for Denver, and reduced city government by 1000 jobs, actually runs things like a businessman, and is a successful entrepreneur.

The only reason anyone out here doesn't like him is because of that (D).

Allah reference thrown into the subject to drive the lurking freepers crazy.

sgt pasto

[ladywnch]

5. well, I've been here 13 years and I remember Tancredo getting

relected. His district is as crazy as he is so he's a lock in that area ( I think it was the Springs, but I can't remember) but the rest of the state, albeit conservative, is not bat shit crazy.

I don't see him getting elected either.

[pasto76]

7. pittsburgher as well?

[ladywnch]

9. how can you tell? ;-)

[happyslug]

17. Pittsburgh unique accent?

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/PennaDialMap.html


http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html#Heading2

Notice Western Pennsylvania has its own "Accent" even on the National Level. We are notorious for dropping inactive verbs (i.e. "to" "be" etc, Instead of "This room needs to be cleaned" in Western Pennsylvania it is spoken as "This room needs cleaned", Thus Hamlet's famous saying "To be or not to be" becomes in Western Pennsylvania spoken (but NOT written) English as "or not",

[ladywnch]

18. actually, I have very little (virtually none) of the hometown accent

my SIL and my nephews all have it very strong but none of my family or my parent's family have much of it. I can recognize it 100 ft away!!!!

I took voice and screech in college....studying Edith Skinner's, Non-Regional Stage Standard Dialect. we studied most regional dialects and where in the mouth they form..... I hated that class!

But yes, ..... we are.......unique. :-)


And you?....younz one of us?

[happyslug]

19. Grew up in Pittsburgh, right now In Johnstown PA

But I do NOT have the Accent. At about age 2 I went deaf, Recovered by the time I was Five. Never did learn how to say certain sounds. Had Speech Class all through Grade School, but did not affect my speech. I suspect I never had perfect hearing. I past hearing tests, that was never a problem. I suspect I never heard things how other heard them. Over the years I suspect my hearing has improved. For example I heard a song from the 1970s (When I was a teenager) that had the term "Women like a Sharped Dressed man", when I was a youth I heard it as "Women like a Shotgun man", Don;t know why, but that is what I heard when I heard that songs in the 1970s. I suspect I did NOT heard certain sounds, but sounds as a whole I did hear. Thus I passed hearing tests, but still did not hear correctly certain sounds.

Given the above I am always being asked where I am from, and people can not believe I grew up in Western Pennsylvania. My "Accent" to them sounds foreign. Thus I do not have the Western pa Accent, but the dropping to useless verbs in very strong in me.

[ladywnch]

20. Aliquippa born here........currently in Colorado.

I never really noticed the verb issue till you mentioned it. My hearing is starting to go from working rock and roll concerts. I suspect I'll eventually explore hearing aids if they'll help my type of hearing loss.

I'll be getting a crash reintroduction to it all next month when I go home to visit. I do miss it though.....the accent....the Pittsburghese....chipped ham...jumbo.....people doing the 'warsh' (wash)......visits to 'Sliberty' <sigh>....gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

nice to meet another 'homie' :hi:

[No Elephants]

14. Republicans do not cut spending or reduce government and plenty of successful entrepreneurs

are Democrats.

[treehuggnlibrul]

3. I wish the same could be said for CO's Bennet/Buck race

It really looks like Buck may win it. The very idea makes me nauseous. Mr "sounds like a sense of buyer's remorse" Buck is an embarrassment to this state. But then we had Musgrave... and she was a blight on the state too.

I'm just hoping Bennet pulls it out somehow. Hickenlooper will be some consolation though.

on edit: on a more positive note, it now looks like Bennet may be closing the gap according to some polls.

[tridim]

4. There's your motivation to vote CO Democrats!

Thanks Tom Tancredo. :rofl:

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Oh, that would be sweet.

[Hawkeye-X]

8. They lost their majority in 2006.

They've been in the minority for 4 years.

GOP here is so fractured, they're going to American Constitution Party fruitcake by the name of Tom Tancredo.

Hawkeye-X

[harmonicon]

10. please, please, please!! (nt)

[bc3000]

11. Does it really matter?

After the Citizens United ruling, do republicans really need to worry about money?

[happyslug]

12. Colorado CAN'T do this, In Colorado, Democrats are elected to be eaten NOT into office

At the end of Alfred Packer's Trial for Cannibalism the Judge is quoted as saying "Stand up, Alfred Packer, you voracious, man-eating, son-of-a-bitch. There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them." it is NOT in the trial record, but this was AFTER the jury had reached its verdict and a good possibility that the record was NOT maintained after the Verdict came in (Transcribing court hearings was a new practice in the Post-Civil War Era, not quite up to today's standards, thus a good possiblity it was said, but not recorded in the official record).

Just a comment on the long history of GOP domination in Colorado.

More on Alfred Packer, America best known Cannibal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer

Please note, I heard the line differently, that Alfred Packer was asking for mercy given the Conviction and the Judge said "Quit asking for mercy, There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them."

Just a comment on how Colorado has changed since the late 1800s, almost as much as the South.

[No Elephants]

15. In fairness to Packer's memory, Democrats then were like today's Republicons.

Remember, Democrats ran against Lincoln, controlled states that seceded from the U.S., founded the KKK, etc. And Lincoln spoke of how rich they were.

Given how much Democrats then were like today's Republicons, I'm surprised anyone could stomach them. (rim shot).

[ladywnch]

21. eeewwwwwww, that was bad! ( I loved it!) n/t

[Unvanguard]

13. *grin*

Just as long as Tancredo doesn't win...

[No Elephants]

16. Go, Dems!