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nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
Tue Jul 28, 2020, 06:32 PM Jul 2020

2020 CO US Senate Election- How would other Democrats have done in the General Election?

CO Democratic US Representatives
Neguse(CO-2)
Crow(CO-6)
Perlmutter(CO-7)
Neguse-D would be the perfect candidate if he ran instead of Hickenlooper and Romanoff. Neguse would become the first black US Senator from CO. Neguse ran for CO Secretary of State in 2014 against Wayne Williams-R but lost by a less than 3 percent margin. Neguse-D is in his 1st term serving in the US House of Representatives. US House members that ran for the US Senate after serving 1 term in the US House.
Cotton(R-AR) 2014 defeated incumbent Democrat Pryor-D.

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2020 CO US Senate Election- How would other Democrats have done in the General Election? (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 Jul 2020 OP
Not a great comparison, Pryor ran on his daddy's reputation. VarryOn Jul 2020 #1
Mark Pryor got elected to the US Senate in 2002 by unseating a Republican incumbent Tim Hutchinson. nkpolitics1212 Jul 2020 #2
 

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
1. Not a great comparison, Pryor ran on his daddy's reputation.
Tue Jul 28, 2020, 06:42 PM
Jul 2020

It didnt convey beyond one term. As loathsome a person Cotton is, he ate Pryor's lunch.

nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
2. Mark Pryor got elected to the US Senate in 2002 by unseating a Republican incumbent Tim Hutchinson.
Tue Jul 28, 2020, 07:04 PM
Jul 2020

Hutchinson lost support for divorcing his wife and marrying a young staffer.
In 2008, Pryor-D did not get a Republican challenger- if Huckabee-D had ran in 2008, Pryor would have lost.
In CO- Gardner-R got elected in a 2014 Republican wave by a narrow margin against a Democratic incumbent that ran a one issue campaign.
Gardner-R would lose re-election to Hickenlooper, 3 of the 4 Democratic US House member(Neguse,Crow,or Perlmutter-D).
It would have make sense if Jason Crow ran for the US Senate and Andrew Romanoff ran for the CO-6 US House District. Crow got elected to the US House from CO-6 by unseating a Republican incumbent Mike Coffman by a double digit margin.

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