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Is Perlmutter responding to media worries?

by | 4:34 pm, June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment

Two separate stories in the media give an interesting view of the 7th Congressional contest this fall, and it almost makes one wonder if Ed Perlmutter isn’t looking over his shoulder, at least just a little bit.

Start with this article from the AP, a flattering profile of Republican candidate Ryan Frazier:

With an anti-incumbent mood running nationwide, Ryan Frazier, a 32-year-old up-and-coming GOP city councilman and Navy veteran, is hoping to surprise Permutter and become Colorado’s first black member of Congress.

Because it was an AP article, and because it was released over a slow news weekend, the piece got wide circulation, being picked up by several outlets.  But the real importance of the article was two-fold.  One, the article virtually acted as if Frazier already has his party’s nomination when he doesn’t.  590 words went by in the AP article before any mention of Frazier’s primary contest with Lang Sias.  Sias made a good showing at the CD-7 assembly, coming in second to Frazier. Second, the article emphasized the anti-incumbent mood, a sentiment that only a fool could be ignorant of at this point in time.

Keep those two things in mind, however, when looking at this article from the Colorado Independent, “Perlmutter embraces incumbency, says real war pits GOP against GOP.”

Despite a recent Rasmussen poll showing 75 percent of mainstream voters would prefer to see all members Congress voted out this year, Perlmutter said he’s not concerned. He said it has been primarily Republican incumbents who have been ousted by divisions among the party ranks.

It’s almost as if Perlmutter tried to kill the two issues I pointed out above with one stone.  He downplays the anti-incumbent sentiment by simultaneously resurrecting what the AP article virtually ignored, namely that Frazier is still going to have to win a primary.  For heaven’s sake, even the headline to the Independent story seems like a one-sentence response to the AP-Frazier story, and the Perlmutter article came out one day after the Frazier article.  Sure looks like a ‘response’ article to me.

Adding the two articles together suggests Ed is perhaps paying closer attention than he’s been letting on, and that he may not be taking as much for granted as either Frazier, Sias, or the GOP hopes.  We won’t see Martha Coakley giving Perlmutter campaign advice anytime soon, if you know what I mean.

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Comments

  1.   Tom McAdam
      June 15th, 2010 @ 6:27 pm

    First of all, I am a Frazier supporter. That said, let me comment on the article by the AP reporter.

    I have been at numerous events where Ryan was in attendance and have walked several precincts on his behalf and have never, ever, had the subject of race brought up. Why does the media (Moreno)have to inject a racial component into this contest. We are looking at a primary with two good candidates, and the outcome will pit a strong conservative against an inside-the-beltway, Nancy Pelosi clone Democrat. It’s not about race, Moreno!

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