By K.M. Spence
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – After a grueling 10 months of campaigning for governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper has seized the title. His largest competition came from Tom Tancredo, a member of the Constitution party, and Dan Maes the Republican candidate. Hickenlooper won by a large margin of 51% and jumped right in to informing the public that there is still a lot of work to be done.
“I am honored by the challenge you have entrusted in me to lead our state of Colorado,” said Hickenlooper. “But as we said right along from the beginning this is not the end of our journey, it is just the beginning.”
His acceptance speech was given in Denver to a large crowd of supporters. He gave his speech once it was announced that he had clutched the win. All news outlets at once announced that he had a large lead and declared him the winner.
Tancredo was the runner-up in the election. He had grabbed a large number of supporters through-out the election once Dan Maes was declared the Republican candidate. Tancredo has been involved in politics for many years, and even he was surprised by the amount of supporters that he had. He lost with 39% of the votes going towards him.
Maes did not have a large amount of supporters throughout the election. This problem went back to the primary election when he won by a slight margin against Scott McInnis. He lost with only 10% of the votes going to him.
Governor-elect Hickenlooper, addressed many issues, but the one that he focused the most on was, jobs. “Too many Coloradoans are out of work or are at risk of losing their job and are struggling to keep their families up. The political campaign might be over, but the work to help Colorado families has just begun.”
Hickenlooper tried to maintain a positive campaign throughout the past 10 months. He ran political ads that attempted to show him in a positive light and said nothing negative about his opponents.
“Now, I may have had to take many showers with my clothes on, but I can proudly say that we won the support of Colorado without one single negative advertisement.”
Though the campaign was hard, Hickenlooper tried his hardest to win over voters and that was seen Tuesday night.
“We care about moving Colorado forward. We care about getting over the economy back on track…and solving the big problems that we face by bringing people together,” said a boasting Hickenlooper. “These problems that we face cannot just be solved by politics, but by the entire community.”
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