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John Hickenlooper: Colorado tough for Barack Obama
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jul 16, 2011 08:49pm |
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| Category | Speculative |
| Author | ALEXANDER BURNS |
| News Date | Sunday, July 17, 2011 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper predicted that President Barack Obama will have to fight hard to keep his state in the Democratic column in 2012, four years after Obama thumped John McCain there by a 9-point margin.
Asked whether Obama would hold Colorado if the election were held today, Hickenlooper said: ““It depends on who his opponent was. I think it’d be a very close battle. He’d have a hard time.”
“There’s such dissatisfaction over people who have been out of work, not just for a few months but for a year and a half or two years,” said Hickenlooper, a Democrat, who spoke to POLITICO at the National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City.
Colorado is one of several states that have tended to vote Republican in presidential elections that Obama flipped to the Democratic column in 2008. The Obama campaign has signaled that keeping Colorado in the Democratic column – along with emerging swing states of Virginia and North Carolina – is a top priority for 2012.
Hickenlooper, a former Denver mayor and restaurateur elected governor by a wide margin in 2010, suggested the administration could benefit politically if it gave state governments more room to experiment with big-picture policy solutions." |
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