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Because the joy of living\u00a0in a "bellwether" congressional district is a steadily escalating series of phone calls (from both sides, plus pollsters) from now until November.<\/p>\n

(Sigh.)\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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GOP incumbent in Colorado 6th CD in a race with implications for 2016<\/a>
\n The Coffman-Romanoff race offers what could be an ideal experiment for the Republican Party and its ambitions of winning the White House in 2016.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because the joy of living\u00a0in a "bellwether" congressional district is a steadily escalating series of phone calls (from both sides, plus pollsters) from now until November. (Sigh.)\ufeff GOP incumbent in Colorado 6th CD in a race with implications for 2016 The Coffman-Romanoff race offers what could be an ideal experiment for the Republican Party and … Continue reading “Oh, boy, I love being in the electoral cross-hairs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30790,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/why-are-elections-in-the-us-on-tuesday.html","url_meta":{"origin":44020,"position":0},"title":"Why are elections in the US on Tuesday?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 6:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Like so much else in the US, it's all about the Nineteenth Century. 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