Live-Blogging Colorado Results [UPDATED] Surprise Win

by em dash, Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 11:09:52 PM EST

Colorado Confidential.com is live-blogging primary results in a variety of races including:


7th CD (JeffCo+Arapahoe+Adams Cty) This is an open seat vacated by Bob Beauprez (R)

11:00pm MDT Democratic primary results

7th CD (JeffCo+Arapahoe+Adams Cty)

Ed Perlmutter -- 13,741

Peggy Lamm -- 9,730

Herb Rubenstein -- 2,246

CD-7 winner faces lobbyist Rick O'Donnell (R)

5th CD (El Paso+Fremont+Park+Teller+Lake+Chafee) This is an open seat vacated by Joel Hefley (R)

10:48pm MDT Republican primary results

Note from a Colorado Confidential reporter on the ground. With 99% votes counted, the absentee ballots pushed Lamborn over the top.

Doug Lamborn -- 27.32%

Jeff Crank -- 21.94%

Bentley Rayburn -- 18.43%

Lionel Rivera -- 13.73%

John Anderson -- 12.41%

Duncan Bremer -- 6.18%

CD-5 winner faces Fighting Dem Jay Fawcett (D)


More results and color commentary at Colorado Confidential.com.




Tags: Colorado, 2006 primary, C0-05, CO-07 (all tags)

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Ha ha, a Republican named "Crank" (none / 0)

That's great.  Like a mortician named Digger.


by MJB on Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 11:28:24 PM EST

Only in the land of Fort Dobson (none / 0)

5th CD (El Paso+Fremont+Park+Teller+Lake+Chafee) This is an open seat vacated by Joel Hefley (R)
9:10pm MDT Republican primary results

Bentley Rayburn -- 666

FYI, Grover Norquist's candidate was Lamborn.

Jeff Crank was a former legislative aide to Joel Hefley.  


Unbossed and Colorado Confidential--pursuing truth over balance.
by em dash on Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 11:53:22 PM EST

This puts forward the religious right (none / 0)

Lamborn barely squeaked past Hefley's anointed successor Jeff Crank in a five-way. Lamborn has many years of conservative service in the Colorado Legislature.

This district polls strongly to the Republicans. Voter registration is D/R/I = 22-46-31, so we would need virtually all the Independents to vote democratic to pull off a win.

Jay Fawcett is a fine candidate to put forward in a district with so many military. Perhaps enough moderate republicans are tired of the Focus-on-the-Family dominance to abandon Lamborn... but we haven't seen the GOP in open civil war in district CO-05.

Colorado Confidential reports that Lamborn has had a lot of success pursuing donations from conservatives around the country.

That's right, retired conservatives across the land have come out in droves for Lamborn, egged on by the Club for Growth, the Washington-based outfit that wants to drive out the moderates. Club for Growth has endorsed Lamborn, and so have plenty of other ultraconservative groups, leaving his list of contributors reading like a who's who of the world of anti-government, anti-union, anti-choice, anti-immigrant. On a lighter side, Lamborn seems to like a gamble now and again.


There's more of us than there is of them.
by MetaData on Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 02:35:33 AM EST

Re: Live-Blogging Colorado Results [UPDATED] Surpr (none / 0)

The only way to win is to get 20% of the Republicans.  Can Fawcett do it?  All the "moderate" Rs lost in Colorado tonight, it seems.

If the Dems are ever going to get CD-5 under the current maps, this year is the year.


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by pacified on Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 03:20:00 AM EST


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