Democrats chances of holding gubernatorial seat in Colorado look much better in a new poll from Scott Rasmussen.

GOVERNOR – COLORADO (Rasmussen)
John Hickenlooper (D) 49%
Scott McInnis (R) 45%

McIniis has lead by 3% in a poll taken just last month by Scott Rasmussen, a 7% swing in a single month. This poll was done February 4th among 500 likely voters.

We had another poll out from Scott Rasmussen, this for the gubernatorial race in Nevada showing Harry Reid’s kid trailing the top Republican by double digits. Harry Reid’s kid does manage to lead the incumbent Republican Governor who will hopefully lose in the primary.

GOVERNOR – NEVADA (Rasmussen)
Brian Sandoval (R) 45%
Rory Reid (D) 33%

Rory Reid (D) 44%
Jim Gibbons (R-inc) 35%

Rory Reid (D) 40%
Michael Montadon (R) 36%

This poll was done February 3rd among 500 likely voters. Another poll for Colorado from Rasmussen should be out after 3pm.

Things getting back to normal around here. We did get a new poll from Scott Rasmussen this morning for the state of Ohio showing Republican Rob Portman with a 4% lead over the top two Democrats.

US SENATE- OHIO (Rasmussen)
Rob Portman (R) 43%
Lee Fisher (D) 39%

Rob Portman (R) 42%
Jennifer Brunner (D) 38%

A rare two-day poll from Rasmussen as this poll was done February 5-6 among 500 likely voters.

One final gaggle of snow pictures before everyone heads off to their respective Super Bowl parties. We finally did get out for a drive through Columbia to check things out.

For the most part, the main roads were clear, but in some locations lanes just disappeared like this right-turn only lane from 175 to Thunder Hill Road.

I still love the look of untouched snow over a large area. It just looks so peaceful.

The parking lot for the American City Building and General Growth Properties had been plowed and could easily be used tomorrow.

The Lakefront looked beautiful in the snow, but none of the sidewalks had been shoveled out yet.

The Mall in Columbia was open for business, but as you can see from the parking lot, not a lot of people made it over there despite the wide open parking lots.

Now for some random photos I found interesting driving around. I found another tree that gave in to the snow.

And remember the car stuck in the left-turn only lane I showed earlier? It is still there.

Finally, after someone spends all the time digging out their car and wants to take a drive somewhere, there is a simple security device to make sure no one takes their hard-earned spot.

Too funny. The public schools in Howard County are already shut down for Monday. The local weather people claim we could a some more snow on Tuesday, so we get to this all over again.

Now before I head out for the Super Bowl, you should know the Saints will win 34-24. More importantly, I ended up with 4’s for both the Colts and Saints in my Super Bowl Squares pool, so I don’t care what the final score is as long as every quarter ends with the Colts and Saints having 14, 24, 34 or 44 points….

Enjoy the evening….

It is the day after the big snow storm and a lot people who hadn’t bothered to touch their cars yesterday were out in force today. Since we cleared out our cars yesterday, we decided to take a small walk. Our county road has some mixed results. In some areas, the road is clear down to the pavement.

And in other areas, not so much.

And because the road has only been clear for about a lane and a half, when two cars are trying to pass, it can be a little tricky, as they two cars were finding out trying to pass the same point at the same time.

But at least their cars are moving, unlike these three cars that appear to have gotten stuck on Friday night and decided to walk the rest of the way home.

I actually came home Friday night around 9:00pmand had to pass by this section. Even then, the road was already becoming difficult to drive in. If they got to this point as little as an hour later, my guess is they had trouble making it up the hill in this spot. It appears they just left their car behind and went to their house. We walked out a little further to the main state road (technically it is a county road too that changes to a state road a half mile away). As you can see, there is still a decent layer of snow still on the road.

There were a few cars on the road, although all the cars that passed us were clearly taking it easy and not nearly reaching the speed limit of the road.

Now the funny one. Check out this car that is just about buried in snow. What is humorous is that the car is currently sitting in what is a left-turn only lane. Like the cars earlier, he clearly got stuck on Friday night and decided to abandon his car in place.

What sucks is that this car will probably be there for a while and make it that much more difficult for the snow plows to fully clear the road. This was about the only sidewalk that I found cleared in my nearby neighborhood.

Hopefully no one has a fire because getting to this fire hydrant might be a tad tricky.

And to finish things off, a shot of the Oliver Carriage House in Town Center.

My prediction for tomorrow is schools will be closed, but most employers will be open including the Government with Liberal Leave policies in place.

Maybe will have some more snow pictures later today. I am so glad that I did my digging yesterday as the temperatures around here have dropped dramatically and will make shoveling that much worse, even with the sun being out. Watching the local news, it appears that many of the side streets still have a lot of work to go on them and even the main roads do not have their full lanes open as of this morning.

Sorry for this mix up on the URL last night for the New Orleans Mayoral race. Regardless, Mitch Landrieu easily won the primary with 65%+ of the vote and will become the next mayor of New Orleans to, I am sure to the hopes of many, pick up for the failed administration of Ray Nagin.

Meanwhile, Brandon in the comments found a new poll from Fleming and Associates for the state of Rhode Island showing former Republican US Senator Lincoln Chafee leading the race for Governor as an Independent in a three-way race.

GOVERNOR – RHODE ISLAND (Fleming and Associates)
Lincoln Chafee (I) 34%
Patrick Lynch (D) 23%
John Robitaille (R) 18%

Lincoln Chafee (I) 31%
Frank Caprio (D) 30%
John Robitaille (R) 13%

This poll was done January 27-31 among 501 registered voters.

Okay, back to politics. Despite the blizzard-like conditions in the Mid-Atlantic, Louisiana held elections today for a variety of races. The marquee match up concerns the primary race in New Orleans to see who replace the failed Mayor Ray Nagin. The polls have now closed.

The official election results can be found here at the Louisiana Secretary of State website for the mayoral primary.

What’s this I see on horizon? Is that blue skies?

Thank goodness. It appears the snow has basically ended, much earlier than many weatherpeople were predicting on TV, and our neighborhood roads has basically been cleared.

And since the snow had stopped, our neighbors and us decided to get our cars cleaned off. We had to leave a wall of snow between our cars since we just flat ran out of space to put the snow.

Part of cleaning of the cars was selfish on my part because I wanted to make sure I had a place to put the snow before my neighbors tried to clean off their cars. Unforutnately the main county road is still covered in snow, so I think we are in for the night.

Finally, I thought I’d finish with this shot, which I thought looked rather cool.

That’ll be it for snow updates for today. Maybe will have some tomorrow if we manage to get out and drive for a little bit tomorrow.

Since my Villanova Wildcats were getting their ass handed to them by Georgetown, I decided to head back outside and found our neighborhood Bobcat had finally made it to in front of my house and car.

Check out how high that pile of snow is just next to the Bobcat. I told my fiance she needed to give me the ring back because I wanted to marry the Bobcat driver for clearing out the front of my car.

Of course the problem is I still haven’t actually cleaned off my car and there is just about no place to put the snow still on everyone’s car…like these people.

Yes, those are cars under those lumps. This once 25-foot tall tree succumbed to the weight of the snow.

So we finally headed out to check things out and thanks to Bobcat man, our road in our neighborhood was rather clear.

Unfortunately, while our neighborhood’s road are clear, we are not going to get much farther as the main road still has close to six inches on the road.

The only was you are getting around today is on foot, like this guy.

Here are two snow plows that are trying to figure out the best way to move all this snow around.

Finding the entrance to my neighborhood is going to be somewhat difficult shortly as our entrance sign is about to be buried.

The local news says we still have five more hoursof this stuff to deal with. It was getting cold out there again so we decided to not venture out any further yet. Maybe when it stops snowing tonight, we will try to make it out to the state road to see how things are. Of course, we will do it on foot….

I ventured out for a second time and clear apath next to my car.

I’ll wait to actually brush off my car until later when there is a faint possibility of actually leaving. My neighbors are also trying to dig around their cars.

Our neighborhood Bobcat is now helping clear out the road as well and is about thirty minutes from getting to the spot in front of my house. As you can see on the right hand side of the picture, getting mail in the near future will be problematic.

Once he gets over to near our house, I’ll go out for Round 3 and head out to the main road to see what’s up. For now, I think I’ll stay warm inside and watch my Villanova Wildcats take down Georgetown on ESPN, which somehow is still being played in DC despite this ridiculous snow in the DC area…