Ken Salazaar

[jiacinto]

Why is he able to win in CO but other Democrats there can't?

[jenm]

1. cuz

he's really a republican in disguise

[paulk]

2. There are two reasons

He gets out the Hispanic vote.

He's pretty conservative - he was ranked by the DLC as one of the 5 best "up and coming" Democrats in an article I saw awhile ago.

He's not my fave - but I'm hoping he takes on Ben Asshole Campbell -
he'll bring the "Spanish" vote, and that will be good for everyone else running. Those folks stayed home in 2002, and it's part of the reason Strickland lost.

[jiacinto]

3. Yeah

I wish that either him or Mark Udall wound run.

[paulk]

4. I think Mark Udall would have a hard time winning

They'd pin him with the "Boulder liberal" tag, and it would be all over.

I wish Gary Hart would run!

Fat chance, though....

[jiacinto]

5. Ok

nt

[denverbill]

6. Ditto. Gary Hart would stand a chance.

Was it Campbell, the Democrat, who took over Hart's Senate seat 10 years ago?

[jiacinto]

7. Tim Worth held it from 1986 to 1992

nt

[Kanary]

8. I sooooo much

miss Tim Wirth!

I think part of Ken Salazar's pull is that he has taken on some high profile issues, and stuck with it. If it hadn't been for his determination, the state's "No Call List" wouldn't have been so successful, if at all. It all depended on enforcement, and he stuck with it.

Kanary