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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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
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
52%↑
48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
July 31, 2018 03:40 PM UTC
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MAGAt-nuttus. What's your real name? I want to make a donation to Jason Crow in your name.
Note: a comment purporting to identify another user was deleted. Please don't do that in this space, thanks all.
Coffman's allegiance to Trump is in 5th place ONLY if you are looking at the difference between the votes (95.6% agreement with Trump's position) and the district's "expected" vote. The expected vote is calculated as "Trump's share of the 2016 vote minus Clinton's share" — which in Coffman's district is a -8.9).
His actual voting is someplace down around 100th — or roughly the middle of the Republican pack. Lowest Republican I see in a fast scan is Walter B. Jones (R-NC-3) at 49.3%
3 others still serving (plus Ryan Zinke) show as having 100% agreement with Trump.
But isn't his actual voting record at 95.6%? I mean freaking 95.6% of the time. How is this not butt-kissing allegiance to all that is unholy and evil in the Republican Party? How the hell is Coffman not rated as an all-time toady for the shit-for-brains gang? He might have been immune to sentiment in the past but his voting record puts him at odds with the majority of his constituents.
Coffman has really good staff and PR people. Even now his constituents, like my kids who live in CD6, are being flooded with glossy mailers extolling how much Coffman has “done for vets”.
Which is ironic since Coffman was chairman of the Veterans oversight committee that blew 1.7 BILLION on the new VA hospital. I guess folks should thank him for blindly supporting our new wars which will make this hospital overworked when the cannon fodder in his district starts coming home.
Both the VA facilities (old and new) will be overloaded with incoming veterans from Trump's latest adventures in the Mideast and Africa. The new hospital only adds 19 beds to the mix. It'll be gorgeous and state of the art and all now that it finally opened this summer. They're transferring vets as we write this.
Yes, Coffman is to blame for using his committee positions to scold and posture, rather than problem-solve, over the years. He has gotten through some good legislation for veterans – help for vets suffering PTSD, male vets dealing with sex assault trauma, etc.
But where it would have really helped to have a credible conservative veteran's voice and leadership, he has been absent. For example, they have a horrendous opioid theft problem at the VA hospitals in general. Yet Coffman is securely in the pocket of pharma interests that don't want any restrictions on being able to sell and market opioids.
Coffman finally came out in support of veterans using CBD or cannabis for PTSD. Cannabis is one of the most effective and low-cost treatments for PTSD. But Colorado had legal marijuana on the books since 2012, and it's taken Coffman this long to start advocating for veteran's usage. He's had his finger in the wind all this time, I guess.
But he has been advocating for bariatric oxygen treatment for PTSD, which necessitates a trip to the VA hospital, expensive equipment, etc.
So he's still just pandering to his donors and to Trump, strutting his stuff, and not being an effective leader.
Crow should zero in on criticizing Coffman for his "Too little, too late, too partisan" approach to the VA hospital, and also on the 95% -with Trump record.
Wouldn't you love to see Coffman be a casualty of the Trump years. People finally wake up and see who he really supports and it ain't mom and pop.
Wonder if this is the New Mike who is receiving all the compliments in the current TV ads about his support for opioid legislation, but is hypocritically at odds with the Old Mike who has voted dozens of times to repeal the Affordable Care Act that would leave many opioid addiction victims unable to afford medical care.
95.6% (let's round it to 96%) agreement with Trump.
i suspect Coffman is the type of Republican that George Will was thinking of when he called on all voters to vote for the Dems.