Here’s how you celebrate Halloween at CMC…Look familiar? <Indeed, we did this ourselves. “Clearly, we should be more worried today, actually, about Iran and North Dakota than we are-North Korea- than we are about Iraq.”- Pete Coors, brewer and Senate Candidate in Colorado on Meet the Press, NBC October 10th. I’m wondering why Pete recently threw in $500K of his own cash in the past three days? Obviously, you know where I will be this weekend… That’s right. The Centennial State- Colorado, campaign for my Ken Salazar. Therefore, this will be my post for the election week. CO Politics Nationally- I’m going to bet wildly on this, Democrats take the Senate, and Bush wins the national election. Either that, or… Republicans keep the Senate and Kerry wins the election. They obviously aren’t contingent, but they are my predictions. To all the undergraduates who thought that I would publishing info, think again. Next week. Have you Voted? If you have, enjoy these websites as a token of my gratitude for participating in democracy: The American Conservative on Why to Vote for John Kerry
My predictions about the races:
Colorado Legislature. The Colorado Senate is going to swing Democrat; no matter how much Senate Majority Leader John Andrews wants it to swing back. The efforts of State Senator Ken Gordon and State Senator Andrew Romanoffhave been phenomenal in turning the tide toward the issues that matter: education, healthcare, infrastructure, a balanced budget, etc. I hope to continue their fine work in making Colorado a better place.
Congressional District 1- Diana Degette (incumbent)
CD2- Mark Udall (incumbent)
CD3- John Salazar, brother of Ken Salazar, he’s going to take this place, most definitely take it.
CD4- Unfortunately, I think it will be the mean, hateful Marilyn Musgrave
CD5- Joel Hefley (incumbent)
CD6- As much as I want it to be Joanna Conti, it’s going to be Tom Tancredo
CD7- Sadly, I think it will be Bob Beaupreuz, Dave Thomas is a great guy and a courageous man, but he didn’t run a strong campaign, the numbers are working in his favour, but he needs to have the right magic to win this race. That magic has to defeat incumbency and that isn’t happening.
US Senate- If I was betting on Colorado’s US Senate Race, without thinking of what ideally is good for Colorado, I would still bet on Ken Salazar.
Article by Carla Seaquist from the October 20, 2004 CSM, about how to get good political discussions from divisiveness
You’ve heard of CheapTickets, now there is also Qixo.
Calculate a Roadtrip- how else will I get to CO?
Fuel Cost Calculator- Same thing.
So you haven’t voted, let’s determine your political leaning <www.politicalcompass.org> and your presidential preference <www.presidentmatch.com>.
Let’s say you do vote, make sure, your machine doesn’t do this. You can’t call in your vote, so don’t give me the excuse that you called the Lie Girls.
Lastly, remember… these things matter. Just like this baby seal, whoever those brutal and evil people were, I hope they know that God has a place for them and they better bring some more of their cigarettes because where they’re going there will be plenty of places to light them. Happy Halloween and Happy Voting!