In this edition of weekly Winners & Losers, Mr. Irrelevant stays irrelevant, while a superdelegate does a super job in timing. We also poke some fun at our favorite Marine colonel, wonder how hard it is to get 6,000 signatures or even 1,000 signatures to make the ballot. So don’t miss this week’s cliff-hanger edition of Winners & Losers, by Wally Edge, who week in and week out, many of you think is always a loser.

Winners

Losers

Bob Barr

Barr gets the nod to run for president under the Libertarian banner. That makes him the most relevant candidate the Libertarians have ever fielded. OK, but that Libertarian label still makes him an irrelevant candidate. Congratulations Bob!

Steve Ward

Ward get weird with some funky math claiming he actually won the assembly despite his opponent, state Sen. Ted Harvey taking a majority of the delegates at stake. Hope Ward doesn’t want to serve on any budget committees.

Wil Armstrong

Armstrong turns in a lot of signatures, over 6,000 signatures. Whether those signatures were harvested by paid petition circulators or volunteers, it’s still a lot of signatures. And Armstrong enjoyed a strong mail piece by outgoing U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard.

Rafael Gallegos

Gallegos can’t make the ballot by petition. "Not enough time, not enough signatures," Gallegos explained to PolitickerCO.com. How does a state representative not get 1,000 signatures to make the ballot?

Pat Waak

Waak jumps on the winning horse as it crosses the finish line and makes national media in the process. That’s bound to leave a nasty bruise on the Clinton campaign.

Jared Polis

“Loser” is a relative word when you have money like Polis does. But when you badly spend $3.6 million of your own money on an anemic campaign, it is unfortunately the only way to describe the week he had. Just be thankful it’s not your money.

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