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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
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Governor
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(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
60%
60%
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
40%
30%
Sec. of State
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(D) George Stern
(D) A. Gonzalez
(R) Sheri Davis
40%
40%
30%
State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%
30%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
50%
40%
40%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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5%
February 11, 2011 10:10 PM UTC
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Do you understand the concept of ‘plural’? Can I then surmise that ‘Republicans demonstrate they are all idiots’ by linking to one of your posts?
That’s what li’l Ricky just said, must be true of all of you.
George W. Bush nationalized AIG, caused the government chartered by privately owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that collectively own 50% of the mortgages in America and took an 80% government interest in them (essentially buying 40% of the nations mortgages), took equity stakes in nine of the nation’s largest banks, brokered multiple banking mergers and sales, caused a government run entity to enter the commercial paper market, provided major loans to GM and Chrysler, federalized an entire industry (the previously private sector airport screening business), supported a major expansion of socialized medicine in the form of Medicare Part D.
As the CATO Institute noted not long before the 2008 election:
“President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years. . . . Total government spending grew by 33 percent during Bush’s first term. The federal budget as a share of the economy grew from 18.5 percent of GDP on Clinton’s last day in office to 20.3 percent by the end of Bush’s first term. The Republican Congress has enthusiastically assisted the budget bloat. Inflation-adjusted spending on the combined budgets of the 101 largest programs they vowed to eliminate in 1995 has grown by 27 percent.”
Republicans prohibited voluntary accurate labeling of U.S. farm products or additional inspections of U.S. farm products that would increase the marketability of these products abroad when concerns about the safety of imports of food from the U.S. in the absence of these inspections and labeling has led to riots in the streets of Seoul, South Korea. And, the Bush Administration has also strongly favored protectionist prohibitions on importing prescription drugs from Canada, despite the fact that there are no genuine reasons to doubt the safety of Canadian drugs. Both Bush and McCain have proposed setting government targets in imports of oil to the United States.
Pro-government conservatives have become one of the main constituencies for the Republican party as the Pew Research Center has noted for several years. They make up 10% of registered voters, and are 58% Republican.
Sarah Palin is a pro-socialist Republican who favors collective ownership of resources and equal per capita distribution of this wealth as well. As one news report noted in 2008:
“A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist-Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine-that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
Is the most ‘socialist’ of all the states, receiving nearly $2 from the federal govt for each $1 they pay into the US Treasury. Other red-ribbed states, Utah for example, are not that far behind–in spite of all their bluster about the feds, wanting to provoke armed stand offs with the feds enforcing resource laws on federal land, for instance.
Like most such hypocrites, Palin may not admit it–pretending she ‘said no to that bridge to nowhere’–and the like, but, as was shown with that lie, her veracity is not in question, but indubitably in deficit.
Of the top 10 states receiving more in federal revenue than they paid in taxes, for 2005, 7 are solidly GOP.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/t…
#1 NM
#2 Miss
#3 Alaska
#4 Louisiana
#5 WV
#6 ND
#7 Ala
#8 SD
#9 KY
#10 Va
David Sirota’s comments on the Super Bowl make Obama, and every Democrat for that matter, a Socialist.
Congrats to Blow Job for finally fitting all the pieces together
I would prefer socialism than the christianist fascist plutocracy that the repubs are pushing.
… but if it’s a lie, it should be countered with the truth.
The Dems are a capitalist party all the way, just not laissez-faire capitalists.
person in the Senate that speaks for me.
That some people are absolutists until the end.
Ayn Rand, idol of free-market libertarians everywhere, partook of government social service when she needed it, too; apparently, it’s all bad until it’s not.
We could use a bit more socialism around here. In the meantime, I can quickly rattle off such socialist institutions as the entire military, the electricity running this netbook here in Austin TX, municipally owned like that of Longmont and Los Angeles, the Greenbay Packers, the removal of the Indians from lands that tough Americans wanted, the land surveying after that, the Homestead Act, and so much more.
But not enough. I prefer cooperation over competition and profits.
You see, BJ, words are only what we make of them. You hear “Socialist” and your hackles raise. I hear it, and I yawn.