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November 06, 2014 09:55 AM UTC

Both Legislative Chambers Await Final Count

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE #3: Denver Post's John Aguilar reporting, likely no result in SD-24 today as counting continues in Adams County:

The ballots continued to churn in Adams County Thursday morning and the state continued to wait for answers on which party will control the statehouse in January.

County spokesman Jim Siedlecki said there are still around 20,000 ballots to tally and completing the count could stretch into Friday, due to write-in ballots and duplicate checks.

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UPDATE #2: A press release from the Colorado House Democratic Majority Office:

"We are waiting for all of the votes to be counted in these districts, but we are optimistic at this point that Colorado voters have granted us a governing majority," said Speaker of the House Mark Ferrandino.   "We appreciate the confidence that Coloradans have in State House Democrats." 

"It looks like Colorado, despite the political headwinds, once again stood tall against a remarkable nationwide surge by Republicans,” Speaker Mark Ferrandino continued.  "The GOP wave lost its energy when it crashed against Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.”
 
With new results from Arapahoe County coming in late last night that put incumbent Daniel Kagan ahead of his Republican challenger by more than 400 votes, 33 Democrats are now winning House seats.  Additionally, there are votes — in some instances numbering in the thousands — still outstanding in other close races.     
 
 “The voters are sending us back to the statehouse to build on the progress Colorado made in 2013 and 2014, when we helped make our state safer, healthier and more prosperous,” said Majority Leader Dickey Lee Hullinghorst. "I'm extremely proud of the work all our candidates did.  Regardless of the outcome of these races, our House Democrats did amazing work, both at the capitol and in their districts during the campaign, and I am tremendously proud of and grateful to all of them for their tireless dedication to our state."

“I also want to congratulate my new and incoming Republican colleagues in the House and Senate," continued Rep. Hullinghorst.  "When the new session convenes next January, I look forward to working with an excellent class of legislators from both political parties, and of course our Governor, John Hickenlooper, to continue moving this state forward.” 

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UPDATE: FOX 31's Eli Stokols:

Tuesday night’s Republican wave has stopped just short of taking out Colorado’s Democratic governor and, it now appears, the party’s House majority as well…

Adams County is also likely to settle which party will control the state senate, where Democrats are still clinging to hope that they can retain their 18-17 majority.

The Senate District 24 race will likely be the difference maker, with Democrats and Republicans already having battled to a draw in the other competitive races.

At the moment, former Rep. Judy Solano is trailing Republican Beth Martinez-Humenik by 1,073 votes in the battle to replace the term-limited Democrat Sen. Lois Tochtrop.

It’s possible several thousand ballots have yet to be tabulated in Adams County, enough to leave the outcome of that race in doubt.

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Judy Solano.
Judy Solano.

As the Colorado Independent's Lisa Greim reports this morning:

By late Wednesday, Republicans had an unofficial 18-17 lead in Senate seats and Democrats a tentative 33-32 advantage in the House. Adams County planned to wrap up its count on Thursday, leaving two House races and one Senate race still too close to call.

Democrats breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday night when Rep. Daniel Kagan eked out a win in HD-3. “Thanks to Daniel Kagan the Colorado House will stay with the Ds,” former House Speaker Terrance Carroll tweeted.

There will be recounts. There may be surprises among ballots that need to be examined by election judges or sent back to voters to verify their identity or double-check a signature…

Three incumbent Democrats still trail their Republican challengers in Adams County, including Sen. Judy Solano in SD-24, who trails Republican challenger Beth Martinez Humenik by about 1,100 votes. Rep. Jenise May was behind opponent JoAnn Windholz by about 450 votes in HD-30.

In HD-31, incumbent Rep. Joseph Salazar was closing the gap with Republican challenger Carol Beckler, whose lead narrowed Wednesday night to 126 votes.

With Daniel Kagan pulling ahead in House District 3 and Su Ryden stabilizing in Aurora's House District 36, it's increasingly likely that Democrats will hold the Colorado House. In the Senate, with the SD-5 race on the West Slope called for Democrats it's a question of the extremely close Jefferson County Senate races and the SD-24 race in Adams County. The latest word we have is that Judy Solano is closing the gap slowly as the agonizingly slow count goes on.

We'll update as more information comes in–which should be later today.

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  1. Updates from Adams counts at 12:30 pm show the following

    Senate Dist 24 – Solano down 995 votes

    HD 30-May down 467

    HD 31 – Salazar down 51

    All three are improvements from their previous state.  Hopefully there will be enough ballots left to count so that these candidates can pull it out. 

     

    Right now, House 33-32 Dem, Senate 18-17 Republican

      1. Solano may still have a theoretical chance, but I think the other two in Jeffco are done.  

        It was a wash on guns:  the ammosexuals lost Heprin and Rivera to Merryfield and Garcia, but they gained a Neville (actually two, if you count the rep) and Waters-Woods.

        1. Is Adams County the only county in the state that has not finished counting ballots?

          When you look at the Secretary of State's website, it appears that something like 8 other counties are not yet finished. Or maybe they just haven't told Gessler the results yet.

          I ask because, last I heard, the state representative from Durango was down by a slight margin. Besides, I'm sort of interested to see the final margins in the gubernatorial and senate races. I think, when all is said and done, that Mark Udall won't have lost by more than 2 percentage points – a testament to how low Dem turnout was so costly.

           

  2. If Solano is down 995 votes, and there are "several" thousand ballots to count, is it realistic to think she will win?  Unless "several thousand" means something like five thousand and they are from a particularly favorable area, it seems like way too many votes to make up.

    1. But, these districts are in the new parts of Adams County the eastern and north eastern suburbs which will be more Republican that the areas west of I-25.

  5. New updated numbers from Adams County show the following:

     

    Solano down to -938

    May down to -347

    Salazar down to -5!!!!

    If there are indeed 10,000 ballots to count in SD 24, then there is at least a theoretical possibility that all three could prevail, though less likely with the first two.

    Also, on the two Jeffco, I am not aware of remaining ballots to be counted in Jeffco and besides, Nicholson is behind by 2,600 and Zenzinger is behind by 1,000.  Might have been better for Dems to have let the recall go forward and then run Zenzinger this year, in view of what happened in Pueblo and Colo Spgs.

    1. Maybe, or maybe RMGO was spread thin – they pinned hopes on several candidates, maybe too many and maybe they focused too much on Zenzinger, hoping to complete the "trifecta" in the recalls, 2 in 2013 and one in 2014. 

      I have to think this is bad, bad news for RMGO – they lost the two recall seats from a year ago, didn't get Hickenlooper out, didn't get the state house and the senate will be by just 1, and just barely and still a very slight chance Dems hang on. 

      1. Thin margins that will have to hold against a massive, massive campaign from the lobbyists (NRA, GOA, RMGO, etc) and ammosexuals. I remember Evie describing the insanity of holding a hearing while the hoards circled outside blasting their horns.

        The pro-gun safety groups will have to match it.

        1. Hopefully the electorate will be as sick of hearing about guns as they are about personhood, and Dems should put the focus on mental health and guns and ask the GOP to join them in adopting Calif's newly adopted gun violence restraining order that allows friends and family to alert police/authorities of an unstable person who may have access to guns. 

          The gun lobby and their GOP friends are always putting the blame on mental health – here's a golden opportunity to step up to the plate and show us you really mean it. 

           

          1. It's not the approach that sets off the gun humpers. It's simple fact that anyone is saying anything about guns, reasonable or not. The humpers never get tired of talking about guns or hearing about guns.

            It's guns, guns, guns 24x7x365.

        2. Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!  Trust me, won't even make it out of committee in the Senate if it's controlled by Reps.  Dems probably have no stomach for it either.  It will take an initiated amendment.  Is Bloomberg going to put up the money for that?

          1. He put up the money for a background check initiative in Washington state and won. Bill Gates chipped in a million, too. 

            I think initiatives could be the way to go on guns – politicians don't have to take as much heat from an angry minority of a minority.

            Let a statewide vote tell us what people really think about gun issues.  

              1. Big money has two things that most people don't – money, and time on its hands to fight never-ending battles against the things people actually want. They can buy up as many legislative seats as they can and constantly fight against whatever is threatening its bottom line.

      2. Trust me when I say that RMGO didn't just concertrate on Zenzinger.  All four of the Jeffco Dems had hundreds (and I'm not kidding about the number) of flyers sent out by both sides.  I live in Jeanne Nicholson's district and am an unaffiliate.  We got 14 flyers on the day the ballot dropped and the next day.  Nicholson had 11 in the first week of September.  It was a constant barrage and I am not kidding about the hundred flyers  Fortunately, I was on Jeanne's finance committee and the Democrats are sophisticated enough to get me off their call list.  We still got lots of calls for Neville, including two calls after we had turned in our ballots on back to back days that were the identical script.  I would guess that the nice lady from Keensburg who called the first day just wasn't satisfied with my answers.  I wasn't so pleasant the second day, but was consistent.

        Thank God, the nightmare is over.  At this point I would be willing to vote for a Constitutional Amendment that outlawed TV commercials and limited folks to what they could spent to $100,000 in a state senate race and completely did away with all the PAC money and the dark money.  I bet that would pass by greater than 80% after this year.

          1. Why can't the Dems go offense and make guns and mental health a central part of this session? The GOP is going to bring up guns – we know that. It's either playing defense to protect what we got – or offense on an issue that is very relevant to Colorado right now.

            Aurora and Arapahoe High both were about guns and mental health and they are just the type of situations a gun violence restraining order policy are meant to help prevent. 

            The GOP wants to bring up the issue of guns? 

            Let's bring up the issue of guns. 

  6. Update from Secretary of State, now over 2M ballots counted.  If it had been 2.2M we would probably only be talking about Udall losing.  But alas.

    I all for mail in voting, but it doesn't seem that it really greatly affected voter turn-out considering 1.8M turned out in 2010 and there's got to be at least 100,000 new people in the state since then.

    This really was a Udall inflicted loss with collateral damage.  Will Pueblo and Adams county ever come back.  In Adams, the County commission and all county wide offices are not held by Republicans.  Hal Shroyer must be dancing in his grave today.

  7. Updated numbers from Adams as of 6:46PM, 11/6:

    • Solano Down by 894 (another 809 votes counted this afternoon, has cut the deficit by another 35 votes)
    • May Down by 268 (another 413 votes counted this afternoon, has cut the deficit by 79, from 347 to 268)
    • Salazar UP by 19 (another 253 votes counted, cut the deficit from 5 to being ahead by 19)

    May and Salazar continue to make decent gains with Salazar finally pulling ahead.  Solano's gains have been modest.  Another race worth watching in Adams is the County Commissioners race for district 4.

    • O'Dorisio is down by 448 votes, has cut the deficit by over 500 today from 1049 to 448.

    1. Updated numbers from Adams as of 8:23PM, 11/6:

      • Judy Solano (SD 24) Down by 852
      • Jenise May (HD 30) Down by 237
      • Joe Salazar (HD 31) UP by 56
      • Steve O'Dorisio (County Commissioner District 4) is down by 289

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