Bob Beauprez, Chris McDaniel, Colorado, Curt Clawson, Doug Lamborn, Elise Stefanik, FL-19, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Gov. Martin O'Malley, Kathleen Rice, Ken Buck, Lee Zeldin, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Maryland, Matt Doheny, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Patrice Douglas, Rep. Charlie Rangel, Rep. James Lankford, Rep. Richard Hanna, Rep. Scott Tipton, Rep. Trey Radel, Sen. Thad Cochran, Steve Russell
In Governor, House, Senate on June 25, 2014 at 10:22 am
Mississippi
Defying all pollsters’ projections, veteran Sen. Thad Cochran rebounded from his under-performance in the June 3 primary election to win the Mississippi run-off campaign. State Sen. Chris McDaniel came within one-half percent of claiming the Republican nomination in the primary vote, but failed to capitalize on his early momentum.
Virtually all published polling projected the 42-year congressional veteran to be falling significantly behind his Tea Party-backed Republican challenger. Yet, the actual results gave the incumbent a 51-49 percent victory, a margin of 6,373 votes out of the 372,000-plus ballots cast, some 60,000 more than were recorded in the primary. Therefore, the secondary election campaign defied not only the pollsters who almost unanimously predicted a McDaniel win going away, but also voter history that virtually always sees an incumbent lose a run-off election when forced into one. Additionally, this run-off produced more Continue reading >
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Andrew Romanoff, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Bentley Rayburn, Bob Beauprez, Colorado, Cynthia Coffman, David Cox, Don Quick, George Leing, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Ken Buck, Martin Walsh, Mike Kopp, Rep. Cory Gardner, Rep. Douglas Lamborn, Rep. Jared Polis, Rep. Mike Coffman, Rep. Scott Tipton, Scott Gessler, Scott Renfroe, Sen. Mark Udall, Steve Laffey, Tom Tancredo
In Governor, House, Senate on April 15, 2014 at 10:21 am
Senate
Colorado’s US Senate general election battle is already underway as Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO-4) won the Republican nomination outright at the party’s official state Assembly meeting this past weekend. By capturing 74 percent of the convention delegate votes, and with no candidates petitioning for access to the ballot, the two-term congressman officially assumes the role of Republican senatorial nominee against incumbent Sen. Mark Udall (D). Democrats also met in convention, and all party incumbents were nominated for another term.
House
The Republicans, however, provided more drama in addition to Gardner’s victory. Two federal GOP primaries have now formulated, in the 3rd and 5th Congressional Districts. Farmer David Cox secured 34 percent of the vote, four points more than the minimum requirement, to advance to a primary contest against sophomore Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO-3).
To the south and east, former Air Force Major General Bentley Rayburn, who ran for the House in both 2006 and ’08, secured 37 percent of the delegate vote in the 5th Congressional District, and will again challenge Rep. Douglas Lamborn in the Continue reading >
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