CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
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State House Majority
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September 16, 2014 11:50 AM UTC
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Women want a real conversation about issues that matter, not their bodies, which don't.
When the going gets tough, the weak and clueless start obfuscating.
This latest Rovian crock is laughable and likely utterly ineffectual. Who will pay attention to this tired old tripe, other than the GOTP choir?
I predict we'll begin soon to see a withdrawal of the Koch/Rove machines and their megabucks from Colorado. Smarter to invest their loot in races elsewhere which they might actually still have a chance to win.
When the going gets tough, the weak and clueless start obfuscating.
This latest Rovian crock is laughable and likely utterly ineffectual. Who will pay attention to this tired old tripe, other than the GOTP choir?
– See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/62799/what-do-female-voters-really-care-about-the-keystone-pipeline#sthash.z3w8sdVr.dpuf
The Keystone Pipeline would be more aptly named The Poverty Pipeline.
I'm not in advertising, but have to say that I saw the women-in-the-kitchen-talking-about-Keystone ad earlier this evening. That is one LAME commercial. Crossroads GOP needs to fire its ad agency.
Personally, I don't have a problem with construction of Keystone. However, I may be semi-unique in that I actually read Trans Canada's SEC filings when the issue first came up. All Keystone does is improve access to overseas markets for a Canadian company. It does nothing to lower prices at the pump in the US and as for the jobs, TC predicted a need for 20,000 employment years. With a construction time frame of 4 years, that translates to a mere 5,000 jobs. And jobs only for construction. A few dozen employees would handle maintenance after completion. It may help keep a couple of Gulf Cpast refineries open.
Someday Republicans might realize that women aren't a different species and that men aren't the default for normal human beings. I'm a woman and I know lots of women and, this may come as a shock to the overwhelmingly white male GOTP, but women care about everything men care about.
Maybe it's to time for them to just try to figure out what most people care about. It's not that women can't be bothered about economic issues and only care about those things that relate directly to their ovaries. It's that most women think Republicans also suck at economics, human rights, voters rights, international affairs, tax policy. You know. Normal manly non-uterine stuff.
Bluecat strikes again!
I hope you don't mind, BC. I found a pic of a Russian blue cat, and the expression seemed appropriate for your vigilance and acumen.
Just wanted to second what you wrote – we do care about the ovaries issues – but we also care about the economy, human rights, voter rights, international affairs, education, tax policy, wage fairness… and we think Republicans kind of suck at taking care of that, because we are paying attention.
As far as the Koch Bros Keystone ad, with the four ladies chatting in the kitchen, give me a f-ing break. That is so lame. The kitchen is reserved for real talk.
When women chat in the kitchen, they are talking who's doing who, who said what, what their kids did, what color poop did the baby make, illnesses and ailments and cures, recipes, shopping and sales, what horrible things their dufus husbands said and did lately, etc. Politics may well enter into the discussion, but generally as it affects daily life. "The personal is political". Women do NOT chat about the Keystone pipeline.
Republican ladies might all agree that Obama is awful, but they're still more likely to not waste their kitchen chat on Obama. Democrats might agree that Cory Gardner is an untrustworthy hypocrite, but again,if there is a kitchen discussion of the Senate candidates, it will be on how specific policies affect their daily lives.
Thanks Mama but I guess I grew up with different women. Yeah we chat about the personal stuff, though I don't recall anyone being overly concerned about poop color or focusing over much on illness and physical complaints. But we also talk politics, current events, world affairs and we don't wind up segregated from the men at our social gatherings with women talking in one room and men talking in another.
Things like the keystone pipeline do come up in my circle. My 89 year old mom follows the news and we talk on the phone daily and always discuss what's going on in the world as well as what's going on with family. So, to me, the idea that you have to rope off some special area of concern for "the girls" or that "the girls", unlike men, are only capable of seeing political things as they affect the personal is a pretty foreign concept. If I do find myself at a party where the women are all in the kitchen talking about nothing but their own and their kids illnesses, I'm going to be hanging out with the guys.
BC,
I didn't mention parties or segregation by sexes – you're reading into it, and extrapolating things I'm not advocating, and that don't apply to me. I certainly grew up with articulate women who talked politics in mixed gatherings.
My point is that at all-women gatherings, that are not overtly political, women behave and talk as I've explained. And I was married to a man from a conservative small town, and yeah, at mixed gatherings, women did and do segregate into the kitchen and talk about the personal issues, pretty much as I've explained above.
But these issues are political, too. The sex issues, the health issues, the baby poop issues even, the kids in school issues, its all politics at its most basic levels. And women tend to see things at that grassroots level.
Nowadays,most of the women I hang with are either teachers or political activists, so we definitely talk politics or shop all the time. "Shop" for teachers is talking about students and teaching issues.
Still the baby poop and the other stuff comes up, and I'm not denigrating its importance. Those are the daily life issues for many people.
For people who live around pollution and environmental contamination, those kitchen table conversations are how knowledge that eeryone is affected by the same agent, and that it is not a personal or individual family problem, is how connections get made. Those may be the real "Keystone Pipeline" conversations if we are unfortunate enough to have it built through our communities.
I'm just saying it sets my teeth on edge to hear that women, unlike men, are only capable of being interested in politics if it's stuff that affects them personally. I also come from a liberal background, a big city metro area. Being from a Jewish family with mainly Jewish relatives at family gatherings, most of them liberal, pro-union and politically aware, and with a healthy sized liberal faction in my social world, my experience was a zillion miles away from a small conservative town experience. I went to schools, as far back as the 50s, with no prayer, no corporal punishment, science classes that covered evolution, and never heard a peep out of anybody's parents complaining about any of that. Itwas taken as a matter of course in the modrn world. Sorry if I misinterpreted what you were saying.
I will say, I've spent very little time discussing baby poop colors with my women friends in my lifetime, although my grandpa never could eat brown mustard because of his memories of full diapers.
…and facilitates the continued rapid destruction of the boreal wilderness.
Exactly. It's much ado about nothing much for Americans.
You missed some of the larger issues with XL…the biggest and more pressing problem, and should concern more folks, is the abdication by the gop governor of "eminate domain" to the Canadian Corporation…that is what is going on right now in the courts…that is the Koch boys ultimate goal…the land grab for power and oil…they will stop at nothing to acheive their goals…including illegal means…then there is the obvious problem of the tar sands oil being the worst of the worst when it comes to being "too dirty" to burn…and let us drift over to Detroit where they have a pile of "petkoch" blowing toxic dust all over Minnesota…that alone should change your mind….
If #SenatorQuidProKoch was really interested in lowering fuel costs, creating oppotunities in rural Colorado and moving us toward a sustainable, environmentally-benign energy future he'd have done things as a Congressman like support H.R. 2493 "The Open Fuel Standard Act of 2013" and promote the doubling of our national strategic reserves by focusing on our billion-plus tonnes of waste we generate each year and its conversion to advanced biofuels. By converting just one-in-six of these tonnes each year to fuel, we would produce three times the amount of energy proposed to come down #KXL, we'd create hundreds of thousands of American jobs – and add billions in tax base to rural America. And we'd be energy-secure.
But no – he believes our future shall remained chained to, and drenched in, dinosaur poop.