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Battleground Shrinking Even Further

by Chris Bowers, Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 08:10:08 PM EST

Sen. John Kerry has scaled back his television ads in Colorado this week and scrapped a planned campaign stop in Denver.

The Democratic presidential candidate will refocus his time and ad dollars on more hotly contested swing states such as Ohio and Florida, although campaign officials insist that they will continue to fight for Colorado.

That is not to say that Colorado is hopeless, just that it is not something of a longshot, despite Zogby showing Kerry ahead there. Many third-party groups, such as MoveOn, will continue the fight.

Earlier, Kerry pulled out of Virginia. In case you were wondering, Bush has pulled out of Oregon and Maine recently, after previously pulling out of Washington.

Tags: General 2008 (all tags)

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Senate Race (none / 0)

Any effect on the Salazar/Coors race? Or is that compartmentalized from President?

by BigModerate on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 08:36:41 PM EST

Pity (none / 0)

I'm not surprised; it makes more sense for Kerry to make sure he gets to 270 than try to run up the score. I mean, we think Ohio is in the bag, but the Bushies may still have an extra bullets and we may need money to stop the supression effort in Ohio.

by niq on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 08:57:14 PM EST

Kerry has actually come back into Virginia... (none / 0)

a little bit. According to the Post on Sunday, Governor Warner's staff asked the Kerry campaign for $25K to buy some (relatively cheap) media time in rural areas; the Kerry campaign made it $50K. It's not what they were going to do a month ago; but combined with the likely large margins in Northern Virginia, it could give Kerry a chance here.

by sjberke on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 09:46:33 PM EST

Not to mention (none / 0)

that ballot initiative which could wind up netting the winner one net electoral vote

by clawed on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 10:06:28 PM EST

I love the fact (none / 0)

That we can advertise this and then the 527s help pick up the slack. The best way to coordinate the uncoordinatable groups is to use the media. Brilliant. PA, OH, and IA or WI. And the White House

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/ McCain Sucks!

by yitbos96bb on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 10:07:03 PM EST

What does "pulled out" mean? (none / 0)

As far as I know, all of the Kerry staff is still here. All of the organizing and planning for GOTV are going ahead full steam. Actually, the television advertising has so saturated the airwaves that frankly I think it is a waste for Kerry to be on the air much more here.

And Kerry and Edwards have been here plenty. 12,000 folks turned out for the Pueblo rally. Frankly, I don't know where else Kerry, himself, could go to campaign here. Denver-Boulder is about as solid as it can get. The Pueblo trip was a smart trip to turn out the voters in that Democratic area with a historic low participation rate.

So, I think this terminology of "pulling out" has too downcast a tone to it.

Colorado is a tough place for a Democrat, but Kerry could win here. If he doesn't it's going to be close and the Kerry effort may help elect Salazar to the US Senate.

by earthside on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 10:31:22 PM EST

Re: What does "pulled out" mean? (none / 0)

Yeah, how can you say he's "pulling out" when he was just here Saturday and 300,000+ Coloradans have already voted? They're putting Colorado on cruise control, realizing that most of the work is already done and it is more important to focus on the bigger tossup states in the last few days.

by Colorado Luis on Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 11:01:40 AM EST
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Feels Blue to me (none / 0)

I have no evidence of this, but living here in Boulder, CO, it sure doesn't feel like we're losing.

The GOTV efforts are in full swing and there is a lot of anti-Bush angst here.

That, and Salazar has this really great new radio commercial with a fake New Zealand phone call help desk handling Coors bear customer service calls representing the 1500 jobs Coors recently outsourced to New Zealand. With all the techies out of work in the Denver metro area, outsourcing is considered a 4 letter word. Salazar can easily win here!

by davidscott on Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 10:43:43 PM EST

Coalbed methane, water contamination and Cheney (none / 0)

I am not a Coloradan, but for any Democratic media folks in CO, WY, MT and NM, here is a link to a story in the LA Times on how a Federal whistleblower from the Denver EPA office has disclosed that Cheney's office was instrumental in skewing an EPA study on the possible contamination of underground sources of drinking water by the fracturing fluids produced by Halliburton and used by the coalbed methane extraction industry.

A PDF file of the whistleblower's letter and analysis is also available at the LA Times site.

by borealis on Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 01:54:00 AM EST

ziggin and zaggin (none / 0)

Last week, an email from "Michael Whouley" to 600,000 supporters shares the "secret" strategic decision to "go for it" in Colorado. Today the local press reports Kerry has "scaled back", despite no specifics.

Folks, its a lot of smoke and mirrors designed to confuse the opposition.

by desmoulins on Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 02:00:11 AM EST

Re: ziggin and zaggin (none / 0)

Or fill that blessed empty newsprint.

Lord knows, some story about Iraqi weapons isn't worth the ink.

by Dan Hartung on Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 05:08:49 AM EST
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Pulled out (none / 0)

You can't trust the Rocky. When I worked there, the employees even used to call it the Mucky Rotten News.

by Carol on Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 11:50:47 AM EST

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