CO-6: Tancredo Will Not Run For Re-Election
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« on: October 29, 2007, 10:10:24 AM »

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) announced he will not seek reelection to the House but will continue his presidential race, the Rocky Mountain News reports.

Said Tancredo: "It's the fact that I really believe I have done all I can do in the House, especially about the issue about which I care greatly (immigration)."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/10/29/tancredo_will_not_run_for_reelection.html

CO-6 voted 59%-40% for Tancredo in 2006.  Bush won the district 60%-37% in 2000, John Kerry narrowed his margin to 60%-39% in 2004. 
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2007, 11:01:11 AM »

Could get interesting as an open seat, but still a likely Republican hold.
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2007, 11:16:02 AM »

Good.  My opinion of him really took a dive when he called Miami a third world country last year.

Based on those numbers, I would expect it to remain Republican fairly easily.
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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2007, 11:39:27 AM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2007, 12:01:33 PM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.

We hope... we don't know whose running in the primary.  I would say that it couldn't get any worse, but Colorado did produce Marilyn Musgrave, so we know it can.
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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2007, 01:00:18 PM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.

We hope... we don't know whose running in the primary.  I would say that it couldn't get any worse, but Colorado did produce Marilyn Musgrave, so we know it can.

The entire GOP Colorado delegation to Congress Sen. Allard and Reps. Musgrave, Lamborn (and Beauprez before him) and Tancredo must rank among the nuttiest of any state of the Union. There isn't a moderate Republican among them in a state, which is far from heavily conservative

No wonder the state has moved in a Democratic direction in the most recent election cycles. At the presidential level, it's not among my favored states to switch in 2008, however, despite recent Democratic statewide success

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« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2007, 01:33:13 PM »

Unfortunately, this just makes it all the more likely that he'll launch a third party bid after he drops out of the Republican race in early January.
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« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2007, 01:51:30 PM »

Could get interesting as an open seat,

No. No. No. Never. Not a chance. Not a hope in hell.

H-U-B-R-I-S

What word does that spell?
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« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2007, 01:55:54 PM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.

Indeed.
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« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2007, 02:26:32 PM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.

Indeed.

Its probably ultimately safer for the Republican Party without Tancredo rather than with him. 
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« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2007, 03:31:15 PM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.
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« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2007, 04:10:28 PM »

It'll stay in republican hands, but I'm glad he'll be out of the House. One less nutjob.

Indeed.

Its probably ultimately safer for the Republican Party without Tancredo rather than with him. 

That could be true, but like somebody said, Colorado GOP has some of the nuttiest delegation in the country to the Congress.
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« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2007, 06:03:55 PM »

Could get interesting as an open seat,

No. No. No. Never. Not a chance. Not a hope in hell.

H-U-B-R-I-S

What word does that spell?

Take a pill.  Could is the operative word there.  Could/will are very different.
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« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2007, 06:16:08 PM »

challenging Salazar in 2010.  hahaha.
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« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2007, 06:22:58 PM »

Could get interesting as an open seat,

No. No. No. Never. Not a chance. Not a hope in hell.

H-U-B-R-I-S

What word does that spell?

Take a pill.  Could is the operative word there.  Could/will are very different.

Since you're a newbie, I'll point it out once.  Do you know who "Al" is?

He's the poster who knows a lot more about voting patterns in various places across the United States than most posters here put together, and certainly knows more than even I do.

In fact, you were just talking to him.

Tancredo perennially underran Prez numbers in the area, that he was always a somewhat weak candidate.  And his opposition was never more than third-tier.

This CD has very little in the way of historic Democratic voting patterns to make me think that some will suddenly start developing legs.  I guess if the Dems put up a top-notch candidate, I'll put it in Likely R, but otherwise the fight's gonna be on the other side.

Oh, and good riddance to Tancredo.  I never liked him one bit.
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« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2007, 10:22:11 AM »

Iraq War veteran and Secretary of State Mike Coffman (R) is quickly laying the groundwork for a likely run, and is viewed as the prohibitive favorite for both the primary and general if he jumps in. Several other Republican office holders are also looking at the race. While Dems will make a run at this open seat, the GOP should be able to hold this seat by a comfortable margin.

http://www.politics1.com/
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