Hickenlooper leads Maes 50-38. If you add in Tancredo, he leads 48% to 23% for Tancredo and 22% for Maes.
The Colorado GOP has been in significant disarray ever since the plagairism scandal hit Scott McIniss and cost him the GOP nomination, which is how the impropable Dan Maes got the nomination in the first place. (Even then, he barely beat McIniss.)
Then, Tancredo jumped in. Is Tancredo pulling a Joe Lieberman? Is he mad at the Republicans for spurning him in 2008 as Lieberman is mad at the Democrats for spurning him in 2004?
In any case, he's doing his former party no favors. With Tancredo peeling off the right-wingers, poor Dan Maes doesn't have much of a chance. In fact, at present, he is running third.
Some of Maes' ideas appear to sound loopy even to his own self. He didn't like Mayor Hickenlooper's bicycle program because it was advocated by the United Nations. When called upon to explain his position, it was clear that he wanted to downplay, if not forget about it entirely.
People generally don't see bicycle-promotion programs as subversive, even if they come from that bastion of devil-worshipping socialists in the UN.
Nevertheless, Hick is right that the GOP will somehow find a way to come together and make a race of it, for which the Democrats need to be prepared.
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