Nearly One-Third of Democrat Caucus-Goers Give Udall Cold Shoulder

Earlier today, one of my fellow bloggers here brought attention to the demise of the faux candidacy of Democrat Mark Benner, "who was running aginst [sic] Mark Udall as a matter of form only." Benner received 1.2 percent of support from registered Democrat attendees of Colorado's February 5 caucuses.

However, after the initial post here, the Denver Post went back and expanded on the story:

Democrat Mark Udall, the five-term congressman, received 67 percent delegates in the preference poll, while the remaining 32 percent are uncommitted. The preference poll results released Tuesday are mostly complete, with a small number of counties left to report, said Pat Waak, Colorado Democratic Party chair. [emphasis added]

Strangely, either the writer or the editors thought the fact that more than 30 percent of the Colorado Democratic faithful chose "None of the above" over Udall was worthy neither of the story's lead nor of a follow-up question.

Well, here's a follow-up: If nearly one-third of Democrat activists think Boulder liberal Udall isn't worthy of support, where does that rank him among the state's mainstream independent voters?

Who Does Udall Want at the Top of the Ticket?

With a little time now for the Super Tuesday results to sink in, and a desperately close and hard-fought primary campaign in the cards for the Democratic Party, who is Boulder liberal Rep. Mark Udall's campaign secretly rooting for? The candidate who makes him look like someone with a wealth of foreign policy and military experience, or the candidate who makes him look honest as a Boy Scout?

Just wondering who Udall would rather have standing by his side at the DNC in Denver, and to campaign with him this fall. Inquiring minds...

Trouble in Udall Land

Mark Udall is about as far left as we imagine it is possible for a Colorado politician, even a Boulder Liberal, can get and still expect to be reelected.

He is so far to the left that we have a scoreboard feature that tracks the number of times his liberal blogging allies and the msm refer to him as a liberal, reliably left wing, and even extremist. That scoreboard is in the upper right corner of this site.

Now, PlagiarismNowAction has a post up whose only goal is to push Mark Udall even farther left. (Those who wonder why we call PlagiarismNowAction by that name are welcome to search this blog under that term for an explanation.)

He [Mark Benner ] plans to run on the issues. Issues important to him include the environment, torture, withdrawal from Iraq, and holding Bush and Cheney accountable with investigations and impeachment if warranted.

He is being pressured by Democratic Party elites not to run. He will need your support to buck the system. Call and encourage him.

I am a 42 year Democratic supporter. I am a (L)iberal. I believe a challenger could very possibly potentially siphon enough votes from Udall to force him to move left on the issues.

Unlike left wing blogs which are engaged in a never ending attempt to promote Republican primaries, we have much more class than to try to interfere in or promote this primary. It will happen or it won't happen completely independent of what we might do or say. We are merely reporting on it.