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
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 30, 2015 11:21 PM UTC
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Are the Dems still a national party?
Can't field a candidate for Congress in New York?
ROLL CALL: Democrats Lose Candidate and Hope in New York Special Election. “The date hasn’t even been set, but Republicans have all but won the special election in New York’s 11th District. The Staten Island-based district has swung from being a top Democratic target in the midterms all the way across the competitive spectrum to Democrats punting the opportunity to win the seat in a special election.” Fallout from the Garner case?
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/201708/
Dubious right-wing source that once had Jeff Gannon/Jeff Guckert on their payroll.
Wasn’t Jeff Gannon the man whore on HotMilitaryStud.com who pretended to be a conservative blogger?
GOTP talking points are getting sillier every day. How many times have you won our one national election, the presidency, even with the help of an electoral college system that allows you to win without winning the popular vote? Which party is the only party in living memory to "win" the presidency without winning the national popular vote? Yeah right. It's the Dems who are in danger of not being a national party.
Oh BTW, AC. Checked out RCP lately? Another day another uptick in Obama's job approval ratings. Your Republican congress? Not so much.
Are you talking about the national party that has won a majority of national votes in the last two Presidential races? Or the 46-member members of the Senate Minority that received 20 million more votes than their Republican counterparts in the last election? Or the party that, in 2012, only got 48% of the national vote but won a lopsided majority of House seats? That national party?
when it comes to apportionment of House and Senate seats, land and cattle are just as important as people are.
. . . and corporations! Don't forget the corporatioons, sheesh!!!
Once again, AC, another day and still another uptick in Obama's RCP average approval rating.
Boston Globe is reporting on Jeb Bush’s prep school years: he was apparently a bully and a big pot head. He’s admitted to smoking weed (an effort at making CO and WA competitive?) but denies the bullying.
If Bush's National Guard hijinks didn't prevent him from getting elected, this won't hurt Jeb. I don't think he makes it for other reasons.
Correction; didn't prevent him from making it close enough to steal a win.
The Denver Post is reporting that Lang Sias has been chosen by vacancy committee to finish Libby Szabo's term in House 27. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27432807/lang-sias-picked-fill-colorado-state-house-seat?source=rss
One travesty of justice made right – Marissa Alexander has been freed. She was arrested in the same year and the same state in which Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman, who then walked free to continue intimidating his neighbors and girlfriends.
Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot into her apartment ceiling. No one was killed or injured; but she was put in jail for three years.
Somehow, the Florida legal system decided that George Zimmerman justifiably stood his ground against the unarmed teen Trayvon, but that Marissa Alexander's warning shot did not qualify as standing her ground against her abusive estranged husband.
Because of unceasing pressure and advocacy, Alexander was finally freed this month. In an interview with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry, Alexander speaks of how she tried to maintain her connection with her children while imprisoned, and the changes she'd like to see in the criminal justice system.
If she were white and killed the man instead of just firing a warning shot, she'd have been celebrated as a heroine and the NRA would have thrown her a parade.
Sad, but probably true. I have yet to see any "second amendment protection" propaganda which upholds the rights of Americans of color to own and use guns, although some of the "Constitutional Sheriffs" are black or hispanic.
This does an excellent job of laying out a major barrier to a more equitable tax code – The Upper Middle Class Is Ruining America
One of the almost invisible ways this political pressure manifests itself, politicians spend most of their fundraising time talking to people in this group. Which means most of their discussions listening to the concerns of "the people" is the concerns of this class.
This is why when I get asked for a donation, I never bring up any issue with the candidate.
Spot on
I got in to a Facebook tiff with a doctor from residency who cited this article about Obama's DOA proposed plan to tax 529 college savings plans. It calls it Obama's "new college tax", and "wealth distribution."
I pointed out the exact opposite, that letting a family that could afford to pay out of pocket for their kid's education at an elite college to save the $300K in a 529 plan and pay no tax on it costs the treasury $90K at their high marginal rate, compared to the working schlub who saves $50K to send their kid to a state school, which costs $7.5K in tax breaks for the lower earner in the lower tax bracket. Like the mortgage interest deduction, these tax breaks are wealth distribution, UPWARDS.
It's no secret that our politics is owned by the rich, and laws are written for the rich, and the upper middle class is included in that group. The thing is, we're really acting as the tools of the oligarchs, since they know we vote and contribute, and make our voices head. They'd gladly throw our interests overboard, so long as they get theirs.
Rootin' for the Patriots to win Lombardi #4! 🙂
Oh…you mean the "tainted forever" Lombardi #4?
Business leaders say that Obamacare's not so bad after all http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2015/02/obamacare-s-not-so-bad-after-all-business-leaders.html?ana=yahoo
A real American sniper speaks http://www.salon.com/2015/02/01/i_was_an_american_sniper_and_chris_kyle%E2%80%99s_war_was_not_my_war/
Garett is a really special soul. (He grew up just outside of Woodland Park; his grandad was a WW2 vet and his dad served in Vietnam) Don't know if you saw him on The Last Word but he said he has (and he is) "devoted Himself to bringing light into the world since his return from Iraq, because he extinguished so much light as a sniper".
I'm always grateful for the voices of veterans. Politicians create wars and soldiers fight them. After and during the Vietnam war, it was the vets who told the "ground truths" that became the conscience of the American people. However, many still repeat the meme that "Our cause was just". We made the PTSD-crazed Vietnam vet a box office archetype, while denying mental health and basic services needed to deal with the physical, mental, and moral injuries of a decade of unjust war.
The "moral injury" that Garett R writes of is real, as real as PTSD, missing limbs. and the effects of Agent Orange. Somehow, soldiers have to try to reconcile in their own minds all of the bloody tangle of rationales, corporate interests, conflicting ideologies, the people's struggles for freedom. Soldiers get lied to, and some never stop repeating and echoing the lies, because it's so fucking hard to admit that all of that courage and trauma was not for Freedom, but for profit, resources, and market share.
It's rare for someone to grow enough to be able to simply say, as Garett does, "I was there, and his (Chris Kyle, the American Sniper's) war was not my war."
Here's the last half of his interview with Lawrence O'Donnell: http://on.msnbc.com/1BBCYlf