2020 Senate Map

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Anonymous wrote:What are everyone’s opinions on the Markey-Kennedy race?
As a progressive, I am a huge fan of Markey and confused why Kennedy can’t wait in line. Kennedy is slightly to the right of Markey so he doesn’t really have a reason to primary him other than age. But a Kennedy name is powerful so im not sure.

I like(d) Joe Kennedy. He is young, good looking, and had good, decently progressive politics. I could definitely see him running for Governor or Senate in 2024/in a special election if Warren goes to the White House. But running against a sitting, popular Senator takes a lot of cockiness and doesn’t makes sense politically. I really have been unimpressed with him. His campaign is also poorly run as Kennedy can’t figure out a message.

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I actually like Kennedy. He is charming and we need more youth in the Senate. Kudos to him

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https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/708658?unlock=XZMW5BGIJVUT6MJF
This was a good read.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/708658?unlock=XZMW5BGIJVUT6MJF
This was a good read.

Great article, Thanks for sharing

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Wow, when Senator Perdue is this desperate...

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, when Senator Perdue is this desperate...

Gross. He pulled the ad down after the outcry.

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Damn.

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Former CO resident here. I wish Colorado had nominated a better candidate than Hickenlooper. He is boring, awful on the environment, and despised by most of the younger residents. I hope he is only serving one term and someone more dynamic replaces him.

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Anonymous wrote:Former CO resident here. I wish Colorado had nominated a better candidate than Hickenlooper. He is boring, awful on the environment, and despised by most of the younger residents. I hope he is only serving one term and someone more dynamic replaces him.

Also, I forgot to add his awful comments on race.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, when Senator Perdue is this desperate...

This is really disgusting and of course crickets about this open antisemitism from the four jackboots on this site.

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Anonymous wrote:Former CO resident here. I wish Colorado had nominated a better candidate than Hickenlooper. He is boring, awful on the environment, and despised by most of the younger residents. I hope he is only serving one term and someone more dynamic replaces him.

I expect he will only serve one term because I don’t think he really wanted to be a Senator in the first place. Ditto Bullock. I think Schumer, DSCC head Cortez Masto, Obama and others convinced them this time because the situation was so dire - recall six months ago it looked like Trump had a good chance of being re-elected and these guys had the best chance of flipping those seats (in Bullock’s case the only chance, Colorado was certainly more likely with another candidate but not necessarily Romanoff.) It was CRITICAL that a re-elected Trump needed pushback from both houses of Congress. I also think they helped clear the path for Mark Kelly so he wouldn’t have a primary.

I recognize that not every Democrat loves these guys but they’ve won statewide and can do it again. And they make up for some recruiting failures - Ds could have had stronger candidates in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and North Carolina although they’re doing pretty well there anyway due to the cataclysmic fall of the polls for the GOP.

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Anonymous wrote:Former CO resident here. I wish Colorado had nominated a better candidate than Hickenlooper. He is boring, awful on the environment, and despised by most of the younger residents. I hope he is only serving one term and someone more dynamic replaces him.

I expect he will only serve one term because I don’t think he really wanted to be a Senator in the first place. Ditto Bullock. I think Schumer, DSCC head Cortez Masto, Obama and others convinced them this time because the situation was so dire - recall six months ago it looked like Trump had a good chance of being re-elected and these guys had the best chance of flipping those seats (in Bullock’s case the only chance, Colorado was certainly more likely with another candidate but not necessarily Romanoff.) It was CRITICAL that a re-elected Trump needed pushback from both houses of Congress. I also think they helped clear the path for Mark Kelly so he wouldn’t have a primary.

I recognize that not every Democrat loves these guys but they’ve won statewide and can do it again. And they make up for some recruiting failures - Ds could have had stronger candidates in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and North Carolina although they’re doing pretty well there anyway due to the cataclysmic fall of the polls for the GOP.

Agree. Remember that as recently as August/September, Hickenlooper was refusing to run for the Senate seat since he said he "wasn't cut out" to run for or be in the Senate.

Likewise, as recently as December, Bullock was declining to run for Senate.

Both of them are running for the sake of the party, to overturn the Republican majority and get McConnell out of the Majority Leader position. He's arguably more destructive to the country than Trump is. And even if Biden wins the presidency, McConnell could block a lot of Biden's plans from the Senate. I think that both would take the position and then would work with the party to find good replacements for them in six years, replacements that could be groomed to work with the two of them and get valuable credentials and connections to help them get elected in 2026.

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Anonymous wrote:Former CO resident here. I wish Colorado had nominated a better candidate than Hickenlooper. He is boring, awful on the environment, and despised by most of the younger residents. I hope he is only serving one term and someone more dynamic replaces him.

With Trump et al, can be hard to remember that some elected officials will run for other offices at the request of party elders and for the sake of state/nation.

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