By eking out 11 percent of the vote, Dan Maes managed to save the Colorado Republican Party from the ultimate ignominy of losing its major-party status. But the state's top GOPs lost plenty of other things in the debacle of the November gubernatorial election: the governor's office, which had looked like a lock just a year before, when incumbent Democrat Bill Ritter was still officially in the running; just about any claim to credibility; state party chair Dick Wadhams, who just decided not to run for a third term; and over a hundred bonus delegates to the Colorado Republican State Central Committee, which will choose a new party... More >>>