Republicans went to court to get mail-in balloting stopped and when the higher court overruled the original decision there was only four days of mail in Ballots left.
The Right has launched an all out offensive against the Voter supression charge. Fox News, Twitchy BIZpac,, and I am sure Brietbart are shoving back:
Colorado’s first ever successful recall wasn’t about money. It wasn’t about partisan politics. It wasn’t even about guns.
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s historic recall election, a lot of people are re-writing history.
Some say it was bought and paid for by the gun-lobby, but if elections can be so easily bought and paid for why didn’t the recall fail? As the Washington Post noted, the anti-recall effort bolstered by billionaire Eli Broad and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg outspent the pro-recall effort by a 5-to-1 margin.
Others are saying it was partisan politics at its worst. But that doesn’t explain why more Democrats and Independents signed the recall petition than Republicans. That doesn’t explain why in State Senator Angela Giron’s district, where Democrats enjoy a 47-23% registration advantage over Republicans, the recall passed by double-digits.
You see, for the people of Colorado, the recall was about something much more fundamental and personal - their right to be heard.
Laughable... One of the two races wound up 51% to 49% the other race ws 56%-44% ,
But here's the thing: only 20% of the electorate showed up which means about 11% of the electorate ousted these two Dems.
There is a big problem Dems have with Special Elections . We saw it in the Sanford-Cobert Race in South Carolina. We saw it in Wisconsin with he drive to Recall the Union Busting Legislators. We saw it in Massachusetts when Scott Brown won. We saw it a decade ago when Republican recalled Governor Gray Davis and replaced him with Ah-nold.
Despite throwing tons of money at these campaigns, Democrats simply did not turnout. What are we spending money on? Media? High Falutin' campaign consultants?
We lose these elections because we are either inept or lazy. Yes Mail-in voting was stopped.. But Come on... our GOTV effort was terrible... again.
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