CO-SEN Megathread: Cory In The House

[Blair]

Can anyone with experience/knowledge of CO politics explain why any decent democrats aren't jumping into the field?

Senate races are nearly always the easiest to recruit for, and whilst I know absolute no-name state senators can win, it just seems strange.

[Blair]

Eh the lesson from 2016 is that in a presidential year you don't need to 'excite the base'. People like Toomey and Burr didn't win because they excited the base- they won because the top of the ticket pulled them over.

There's a long list of extremely average, and boring senators who won through the dumb luck of either running in a wave year, or a positive presidential year.

However Hickenlooper has been dumb for three reasons.

1.) He should have (like Bloomberg) realized their is no-lane, or route to winning the nomination

2.) Realizing 1 he would have been given a more clear field, and open run.

3.) Rather than running as a popular ex governor, he'll be forced to run in a primary as someone who's on record A.) Not wanting the job B.) Bashing extremely popular policy proposals like Medicare for all/Green New Deal.

He now faces a primary against well funded opponents, who have two big sticks to beat him over the head with. However people are stupid to suggest that he's DOA; sometimes this stuff very rarely matters in the grand scheme of stuff (see Rubio 2016)

[Blair]

Warren endorsing him isn't really a surprise; Romanoff isn't exactly a progressive icon despite his recent conversion.