Tom Wiens looks like big loser in Republican Senate primary; he only got 35% of Douglas County votes

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 8:24 am, March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment

Tom Wiens needs to get smart about how he invests his fortune. In Tuesday's Republican caucus preference poll for U.S. Senate, Wiens lost his home Douglas County 35.9% to a combined 60.1% for Ken Buck (27.4%) and Jane Norton (32.7%). That's a landslide rejection of Wiens anyway you look at it. Time for him to buy another ranch or start a new business that he knows how to run. Wiens has some political talents, but he's in the wrong race at the wrong time. While the caucus preference polls don't mean much, it's pretty clear that Douglas county Republican activists who know Wiens well have sent him and the GOP a message. Norton won her home county, Mesa, with 64% of the vote. Buck won his home county, Weld, with 75.8% of the vote. And gubernatorial candidate former U.S. Rep. and Colorado House Majority Leader Scott McInnis won his home county of Mesa with 77% of the vote. Indeed, in McInnis' landslide win over Dan Maes, it looks like he also won his old third Congressional District by a big margin. The activists who know McInnis best like and respect him.

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