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%
February 09, 2009 08:04 PM UTC
43 Comments
Stay out of small rooms.
Just book the stadiums. It’s worked for Democrats in Colorado before.
Obviously not, or they wouldn’t have voted for Obama and Udall.
🙂
Me wonders whether woman pretending ignorance is backing another horse?
I knew exactly who I was voting for when I voted for Obama and Udall.
Then again, I’m not a Dem.
Sen. Bennet came to the Arapahoe Co. Dems re-org Saturday too.
He is doing his first steps of meeting his party. Somehow he has to do this at the same time he is in session. Tough situation.
His election in 2010 will depend on the people he is meeting right now.
I did not get a chance to talk with him at re-org; I do look forward to talking in the near future.
can’t be a coincidence
There goes the conspiracy theory. 🙂
every time more than a couple “Mike”s are gathered in his presence …
Not sure that’ll take him through 2010, but it’s a start.
On Friday, January 30, 2009 I was invited to attend a gathering of Arapahoe County Democrats at a private home. There were forty people at that event and Senator Bennet spoke. Everyone, and most of them were Democrats, knew who he was and he gave a short good speech about the stimulus package. He was articulate and well received.
He certainly needs to get around the state but he is doing that. On January 31, he spent the entire day in Greeley meeting local party people and community leaders.
I think its way too early to write him off.
know you’re really a “true” Republican?!?!?!
at a private home in Cherry Hills where everyone around me certainly knew who he was and all were pleasantly surprised by his appearance as we were expecting only CD1’s Diana Degette from our congressional delegation. It appears that he understands his “who are you” problem and is working hard to make himself more widely known.
I am shaking my head at the idea of “active” Dems be who don’t follow Senate appointments or stimulus package news in which both Udall and Bennet have figured prominently as among the 20 who forged the deal acceptable to Collins, Snowe and Specter. They’ve been featured prominently in the media including local papers and including phot ops. Bennet has a big recognition hill to climb here if even “active” Dems are so oblivious.
As to the deal, the more I read Krugman and others the more tempted I am to say to hell with it… lets go to nuclear option and get the best stimulus package we can passed even if it’s with just one Senate vote! I’m stepping back and taking deep breaths before making up my mind.
and she is actually quite informed — and totally incensed at how the appointment was made, and not pleased that Bennet has joined the “Gang of 20” which is eviscerating jobs in Colorado.
Not saying all active Dems should like him. Just startled that a person can be considered an active Dem without following little things like Senate appointments and the stimulus bill shenanigans. I was for Romanoff myself.
Hell, he SHOULD be known in Denver.
Cherry Hills is no more a part of Denver than JeffCo is.
SHOULD be part of Denver. I say annex it and Greenwood Village as sweet revenge on Freda Poundstone. Then we can talk.
…see the post below re: bitches trying to rile me up….and succeeding!
Does anyone else find this peculiar? Is he positioning himself for a potential senate primary perhaps? Hmmm….
It makes more sense than Senate, though it’s still a suicide mission.
I think based on the coy words I heard from Romanoff in his speech in Denver’s reorg that he’s definitely running.
but for what? Hell if I know.
I have some guesses (and that’s ALL they are), but they are kinda far fetched and would take some dominoes to drop first. So we’ll see.
There are a lot of races in ’10 and you never know who may decide to not run. Plus he’s now an attorney and so there’s AG.
Ritter gets an appointment in another year, the Lt. Gov. ascends but announces she won’t run for re-election. Voila!
Or David’s scenario, but I don’t see Romanoff challenging a sitting attorney general.
Can’t he be a regent or something until something worthy of his stature opens up?
Deep down, Romanoff is made for the Senate. He’s doing this ‘thank you tour’ of the various counties to basically foreshadow his Senate run, and that’ll put massive brakes on any fundraising Bennet would ordinarily do during that time. Then Romanoff jumps into the race big time with a well organized campaign at a time of his choosing.
He strikes me as the kind of Democrat who can win in a fairly moderate state like Colorado.
I think Romanoff would be stupid to try to primary him. Why doesn’t he wait and run for Governor when it is open in 2014? It seems like this would be a better fit for him.
With Democrats in Colorado, Romanoff is beloved, and I don’t use that word lightly.
or more about the JeffCO Dems. I mean, how can you not know who Mike Bennet is?
I agree that Bennet is in trouble, but PCPs and people higher up in the party should really know who their Senators are.
From what I saw on his road trip with Ritter, Bennet carried himself well. If he lacked charisma at the reorg meeting, then I might chock it up to being tired.
Neither he nor Ritter seem to be in election shape yet. That is very troubling.
Sure, you can make a good case that Ritter is weakened and Bennet is unknown.
But as Ralphie often says, you can’t beat somebody with nobody.
The Republicans don’t have anybody.
But I can’t take credit for it.
The source was my good friend Bob, a Reagan Republican, who died last December.
God I miss him. There is much to talk about. And I so miss talking to him.
…so, rather than ask someone next to her, quietly and politely, who the speaker is, she makes a big fuss of demanding the speaker ID himself? Sounds like a plant, not a genuine question.
No way an active Dem doesn’t know who was just appointed as U.S. Senator
Just another East Coast carpetbagger-came here to make money (did that!), amuse himself with politics (did that!), dabble in public school administration (did that!), and finally, tiring of life in the flyovers, convinced our not-very-sophisticated governor to give him a really good government job (did that!). But life in the Senate is no fun-you’ve gotta raise money, suck up to party activists, raise money, deal with hundreds of giant washington egos, raise money, fend off ambitious, better qualified pols who want your job, raise money, suck up…repeat until you drop dead on the job, or get Daschled by Dickie Wadhams. Bennet has options, unlike the rest of us hicks-look for him to take a better, more challenging, and more satisfying job than that of the 100th ranking galley slave in the Senate-actually, 99th, pending the arrival of Al Franken!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Ritter, Perlmutter, Bennet (introduced by Cary Kennedy), and Romanoff spoke at the Adams re-org meeting on Sunday.
…why she dropped out of the running for Senator from NY?
But some may have been thinking it. Few people know who she is. They probably think she’s related to JFK so she is safe in 2010.
now, you, with Poundstone! Anyhoo, given your demonstrated interest in trivia (i.e., politics), you may be interested in this map:
http://www.denverinfill.com/bl…
random insertion alert! (oh…dirty)
this post wasn’t designed to go here; crazy republican gremlins in the machine
What hath Freda wrought? The horror … the horror …
the red and blue Obama poster?
Coincidence?
Or conspiracy!!!!!!