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State House Dist. 49 Representative Kevin Lundberg received 68% of the votes from the Republican Party vacancy committee to replace Senator Steve Johnson in the State Senate. The committee consisted of 128 Republican precinct captains from all the precincts in State Senate District 15.

State House Dist. 51 Representative Don Marostica lead the effort to appoint Loveland businessman Mike Lynch to the vacant Senate seat. However, Marostica’s recent comments to a statewide newspaper disparaging “Christians” and their values and blaming them for costing votes in the last election changed the tone of the contest.

Does the party need to abandon or embrace its conservative values became an issue in the two forums where the candidates seeking to replace Johnson appeared. Read the complete story on the vacancy committee meeting in Loveland on LovelandPolitics.com and see pictures of the event.

Cordial and without controversy, the vote was counted and Lundberg was announced the winner with 86 votes and Mike Lynch receiving only 42 votes.

Did you support or oppose Lundberg for this position?

Over 163,000 voters in Larimer County cast ballots in November’s election but just under 10,000 ballots cast were only for the presidential ticket while approximately 15,000 voters decided not to vote in the Larimer County Commissioner’s races. About 16,000 new and younger voters asked for absentee ballots in Ft. Collins.

It is typical to see the highest profile offices on the top of the ballot receive the greatest number of votes while the further one goes down the ballot the less number of votes are recorded as some impatient voters don’t bother to completely fill-in their ballots. However, the massive surge in registration since last July (40,000 in Larimer County) meant a larger number of younger more liberal voters from CSU participated in the election than ever before in Larimer County elections thus greatly skewing the results.

Do you believe the 25,000 students at CSU will continue to make an impact in Larimer County or was this a one-time surge for Obama’s campaign?

In anticipation of Steve Johnson winning his bid to be a Larimer County Commissioner, Mike Lynch has mailed local Republicans asking for their support of him in replacing Johnson.

However, Larimer County received 40,000 new registrations since July with a vast majority being Democrat or unaffiliated. Will a surge of CSU students registering to vote for Obama impact county races? See the full story at LovelandPolitics.com.