President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
December 06, 2008 05:57 PM UTC
11 Comments
…that Wadhams would love to find plenty of pretenses for both his and his candidate’s abysmal personal performances.
Why are we still counting in a Senate race in blue Minnesota? Quality Republican candidates won, or came very very close, in this election.
Just look at Bernie Buescher who was an incumbent and had a lock on becoming Speaker – and a Republican challanger beat him.
Schaffer, Musgrave, & Wadhams just sucked. They can talk around it all they want but they were a crappy product poorly sold.
Short of turning CD-6 and CD-5 blue too? I’m worried that we have two paths now: we can either plateau for as long as possible, or our success begins to wane.
hope for a John Salazar move to Ag.
The statistics are undeniable. But, perhaps the interpretation is a bit off. It is my opinion that Shaffer lost by the biggest margin in 24 years, and that he and the Republicans were more responsible for that margin than were Udall and the Democrats.
Republicans ran against Bush’s negatives. It should be easy to come back, except the GOP is split, demoralized, broke and old.
If John Salazar joins Obama cabinet, an R could win the congressional seat in a special election. Unless they put up another bad candidate like Schaffer. A moderate, thoughtful Republican might get the unaffiliated vote there. There are very few D’s that could win in that district. It would take a bad campaign and candidate from the Republicans to lose that one I fear. Look what happened in Georgia in the runoff. CD3, I believe has more R’s then D’s.
Do we have any gun toting, tree hugging Dems out there that could excite the D’s enough to show up again? I consider myself a gun toting, tree hugging progressive, but, I don’t live in CD3. Bernie better find a cowboy hat fast! I think Curry may have a couple.
For us political junkies who love campaigns, this might be just what the doctor ordered for those of us who are going through withdrawals. Minnesota can’t have all the fun.
Udall ended up winning by a larger margin in Colorado then Obama. Athough McCain’s campaign was not near as good as Obama’s, Schaffer’s was just horrible.
Udall 53% Schaffer 43% 4% other (10 points)
Obama 54% McCain 45% 1% other ( 9 points)
…the GOP will put up a true-believer on the far right, and we’ll keep CD-3 blue.
a far rightie couldn’t win a special election there.
Maybe. This isn’t rocket science. Pretty simple stuff actually. We dems need to hope for an extreme rightie on the R side that will appear partisan and hope the dems in CD3 are wise enough to put up a dem that can win in a fairly conservative district. The democrat running for CD3 will need to articulate how we get out of this horrible economic mess, appear to be above partisan politics and voters will have to “like” the candidate once they are introduced to the voters. Everyone that has been mentioned both on the R and D side will have to introduce themselves to most of the district because none in the obvious stables will be widely known outside their current/former districts and will have to look good in front of small gatherings and TV appearing very comfortable in his/her skin. Remember, this is a very large district. The dems can win this thing but it will take a great campaign, consistent message and very good candidate that fits the district.
Agree but that’s a pretty tall order. Would rather see Salazar stay for now.