Fawcett and Lamborn are TIED!!-Denver Post

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

The unthinkable IS possible in the reddest of districts in Colorado! Can we now get some money down here????



SNIPPET:
Colorado Springs - In what may be the starkest depiction yet of the challenges Republicans face in maintaining control of Congress, a new poll shows the party is fighting to hold on to a traditionally Republican seat in Colorado Springs.

No Democrat has won in the 5th Congressional District since it was created in 1972, but Democrat Jay Fawcett is tied with Republican Doug Lamborn, according to a poll conducted for The Denver Post by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research.

Fawcett and Lamborn each have 37 percent of the votes, while 26 percent of voters in the six-county district remain undecided. The poll was conducted Oct. 3 through Saturday and included 400 likely voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

"It appears that Lamborn is now the first Republican who has ever had to fight hard to take that seat," said Bob Loevy, political-science professor at Colorado College. "A seat that should not have been competitive for the Democratic Party, as a result of a number of unusual events coming together - if the poll is correct - now appears to be competitive."
Kate Bedingfield, spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said she believes the scandal involving U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's sexually explicit e-mails to teen congressional pages may have influenced the poll results.

Foley, a Florida Republican, has resigned.

"Given the current climate, there is no such thing as a safe Republican seat," she said.

Bedingfield declined to say, however, if the party would pump money into the race. The DCCC has a policy of not commenting on how it will spend money, she said.

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[CanonRay]

1. We're holding 4 hosueparties for Jay in Canon City

on October 25 to help raise money. If only the DCCC would give him a lift...we can win this thing.

[rockymountaindem]

3. I read on coloradopols that the DCCC is going to help

Unfortunately, that means shifting resources away from the district four race, but still, more for Jay is great news.

[GardeningGal]

2. I donated yesterday. n/t

[DonMeyer]

4. Go Fawcett!

A win in Colorado Springs would be very sweet indeed. I think if we win there, we will win both the Senate & the House. It will show that America is totally fed up with the corrupt Republicans and the Bushites.