The winning streak is intact.

Holtzman clearly showed in the Referendum C campaign he was willing to go scorched earth. Bitter fights leave scars.

History is made by those who do things for the first time.

Denver is politically and culturally out of sync with the rest of the state. It's very urbane. It's more heavily minority. It's a place that passed a liberal marijuana law and voted for John Kerry by 2 to 1.

I caught everybody off guard and ended up winning that one. I'm not really sure what everybody else was doing.

It is really a downer. All year we've been working for this. And we had a great shot at winning it again.