fuck Merrifield
the district he won (Morse's) covers southern Colo. Spgs and Manitou Spgs.
Manitou is a lot of lib hippies and the southern side of the Spgs has a lot of minorities, mostly Hispanic.
in the article he says that at the door he had to argue the gun debate. In his ads he didn't bring up the gun debate,
his ads were all - I want to work for you, we need better schools, more jobs, etc. the typical Dem template ad.
Merrifield has held a state office in the past - State Rep? and I think he was term limited. the Dems pulled him back in to run for the State Sen office. He is a practiced, polished, smooth talking politician that ran against a weak candidate - Bernie Herpin.
In reality, we may not have won the recall against Morse if we had used the voting methods that are gaining in popularity today.
because of all the legal wrangling in the courts about the recalls and election deadlines, they couldn't use a mail in vote and we had to go to polling places and vote with paper ballots.