Colorado Anti Gun senators Recalled

[jagbender]

Public Policy Polling, a noted and widely-followed polling firm, said Wednesday it made a ?rare decision? last week to not release poll data predicating anti-gun Colorado state Senator Angela Giron would lose her recall election.
?We did a poll last weekend in Colorado Senate District 3 and found that voters intended to recall Angela Giron by a 12 point margin, 54/42,? director Tom Jensen wrote on the firm?s blog.
?In a district that Barack Obama won by almost 20 points I figured there was no way that could be right,? Jensen added. ?It turns out we should have had more faith in our numbers becaue [sic] she was indeed recalled by 12 points.?

Democratic state Sen. Angela Giron hugs a crying supporter after giving her concession speech after she lost in a recall vote in Pueblo, Colo. , Tuesday Sept. 10, 2013. Two Colorado state lawmakers who backed gun-control measures in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut last year have been ousted in recall elections. (AP)​

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Colorado voters decided Tuesday evening to recall both Giron and Democratic Senate President John Morse after their support for stricter gun control laws earlier this year.
But that?s not to say the firm doubted all of its polling data. Jensen said PPP ?didn?t find the gun control measures that drove the recall election to be that unpopular.?
In short, PPP believes Giron must have lost for a reason other than gun control because Colorado?s new laws aren?t that unpopular.
?Expanded background checks for gun buyers had 68/27 support among voters in the district, reflecting the overwhelming popularity for that we?ve found across the country,? Jensen wrote. ?And voters were evenly divided on the law limiting high capacity ammunition magazines to 15 bullets, with 47 percent supporting and 47 percent opposing it.?

He said those numbers don?t square with Giron being recalled by a 12-point margin.
And here?s another interesting bit of information presented by PPP: voters in Giron?s district have a favorable opinion of the National Rifle Association by a 53/33 margin.
Jensen went on to argue that the NRA helped defeat Giron by making it about gun rights as a whole and not about the ?pretty unobtrusive? anti-gun laws she helped pass.
The NRA ?won the messaging game and turned it into something bigger than it was ? even if that wasn?t true ? and Giron paid the price,? he said.
It?s worth noting that although Jensen cites the NRA?s superior messaging tactics, anti-recall advocates outspent recall supporters by a whopping 7 to 1 margin.
The NRA must have really, truly excellent messaging skills.
A spokesperson for PPP didn?t immediately return TheBlaze?s request for comment.
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[jagbender]

[h=3]Colorado Did It![/h]?We may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks....? -- President George Washington, October 3, 1789
What a startling upset. The voters of Colorado have done it!
Yesterday, Colorado booted two unprincipled, back-stabbing, arrogant legislators from office.
This was truly a historic effort and the first time in Colorado history that there has ever been a recall election -- let alone a successful one.

Democrat Senators John Morse and Angela Giron lost their bid to hold onto their seats in districts that heavily favored Democrats. (In fact, Giron represented a district where only 23 percent of registered voters are Republicans.)
In Morse?s race, 51% of voters pulled the recall lever to eject him from office, while 56% of voters sided against Giron.
The effort to recall Morse and Giron began as a genuine local effort, although the prospects of beating two entrenched Democrats attracted big bucks from out of state. Anti-gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent hundreds of thousands of his own dollars in an attempt to help Morse retain his seat.
But it didn't work. And now the handwriting is on the wall for other legislators.
Morse especially angered constituents earlier this year when he, as the Senate President, helped slam several unconstitutional gun control bills through the legislature and onto Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper?s desk -- legislation such as magazine restrictions, bans on private gun sales (without a background check), etc.
Gun Owners of America stepped into the fray during the spring and summer, and did its part in rallying the troops to get Colorado voters to the polls.
And so, to the voters of Colorado, we at Gun Owners of America want to thank you all for your efforts to send a powerful message to the rest of the state -- and the rest of the country.
As stated by the New York Times this morning, the recall has given ?moderate lawmakers across the country a warning about the political risks of voting for tougher gun laws.?
Your activism in Colorado has truly been a model for the rest of us to follow!


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[DOMS]

People crossed political lines to punish shitty politicians? I hope that this becomes a trend.

 

[bio-chem]

Fuck bloomburg and his money. What a cunt

 

[Zaphod]

Just spent 15 minutes looking for the news article about the recall outcome I had found yesterday but can't find it today. Part of it said that this recall was a bad thing because they were targeted not for corruption or malfeasance, but for voting their conscience. They weren't elected to vote their conscience. They were elected to represent the people in their districts. They got what they had coming. Hopefully this is the beginning of a trend; Recalling those that fail to hold up their oath of office and represent the people who elected them.

 

[jagbender]

Fuck Bloomburg and his money. What a cunt

Bloomburg and his cronies paid 7 times the money in advertising and still lost! American's are finally getting mad enough to do something!