Hey DC, there's still a primary in Colorado

by Jerome Armstrong, Tue May 25, 2004 at 06:50:43 AM EST

On Saturday, Mike Miles won "a mild upset by drawing 51% of the delegates at the State Democratic Convention", posts Colorado Luis.  Well, it shouldn't be mild; instead, it should wake up DC. About a month ago, I complained that the DSCC wouldn't even list Mike Miles as being in the running on their DSCC Senate roundup page, (Colorado Atty. General Ken Salazar (D) v. Pete Coors or former Congressman Bob Schaffer). Then while in DC this last week, I found out that two well-known Democratic organizations had already backed Ken Salazar for the General nomination. Now, these organizations are privately funded, and can do as they please; but the DSCC is funded by Democratic Party members like us throughout the nation, including Colorado, and of those Democrats there, 51% of them at the state convention just said that Mike Miles should be their nominee.  

Doesn't, at the least, Mike Miles warrant a mention on the DSCC's website?




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Wishful thinking! (none / 0)

It's nonsense to predict a Kerry blowout.  If the economy were really tanking and the stock market was heading south, then the omens for an overwhelming Kerry victory would be much clearer. Furthermore, Bush has the unwavering support of 80-90% of Republicans.  For many of these people, voting for Bush is part of their religion.  The primary key to winning the election is getting a high Democratic turnout and motivating the anti-Bush vote.  Secondarily, winning over more independent voters will matter.  Bush is doing much more to achieve these goals than Kerry is!  It is also crucial to have a high Democratic turnout (and a turnout of progressive who even plan to vote for Nader) to elect more Democrats to the House and to the Senate.
by Anonymous Citizen on Tue May 25, 2004 at 09:45:32 AM EST

No (none / 0)

Ken Salazar will win!
and with the Senate and the Supreme Court at stake a majority in the senate is more important than  letting democratic activists in Colorodo nominate a loser.
by Anonymous Citizen on Tue May 25, 2004 at 11:57:06 AM EST

Miles (none / 0)

Miles is another Ralph Nader, a hopeless cause forcing Dems to waste valuable resources that could be spent against the Republicans. Miles has as much a chance winning a US Senate general election in CO as Jesse Jackson
by Anonymous Citizen on Tue May 25, 2004 at 12:47:31 PM EST

Don't you think its possible (none / 0)

That treating left-wing Democrats simply as drains on the party and dreamers with lost-cause agendas that do not even deserve consideration is not exactly the best way to keep them in the party? Miles was running for this seat two years before Salazar, and he's just supposed to quit because of perceived notions of (ugh0 "electability?" That doesn't strike me as the best way to build a coalition.
by Chris Bowers on Tue May 25, 2004 at 01:05:56 PM EST
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Is Miles all that leftwing? (none / 0)

I read his website stuff a while back, besides oppossing the war (which seems to be the right position, ahem), what was so left wing about him?  I find it hard to believe that people would embrace Salazar so readily, just because the guy won the AG spot over a hapless Republican.
by Jerome Armstrong on Tue May 25, 2004 at 01:11:29 PM EST
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Miles (none / 0)

I actually don't know much about Miles, but he is often treated as a big lefty in the blogopshere. I guess I went along with conventional mythos rather than investigation.
by Chris Bowers on Tue May 25, 2004 at 01:15:12 PM EST
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Medical Marijuana (none / 0)

After 60% of Colorado voters amended the State Constitution to protect medical marijuana patients from prosecution, Salazar asked John Ashcroft to step in and initiate Federal Prosecutions. This isn't mainstreaming, or reaching to the middle, the middle had already shown solidarity with the patients.

If Salazar's nominated, expect Green and Libertarian candidates to pull a large part of the otherwise Democratic base.



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by benmasel on Wed May 26, 2004 at 07:41:01 PM EST


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