President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
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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%
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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
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48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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August 22, 2019 10:47 AM UTC
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What a load of horse manure, Alva.
You are better than this.
Actually, I get where Alva is coming from. Do any of these other candidates have a realistic prayer of beating Hick? Are they raising money and Johnston's corporate ed money DOES NOT COUNT? If the answer to either of those questions is no and they're still talking shit, they're helping Republicans.
Yes. Some of the candidates are raising substantial money. The former governor isn't as popular as you think, I believe. He has made a lot of enemies…
Why don't we just wait for a couple of real polls to hit the street. Not just push polls from Republican lite groups who desperately don't want a progressive senator. Let's let Hick actually compete for the job, before we tell everyone else to bow out and clear a path for the anointed one.
Frankly, I don't think he can win the nomination…even with the full support of COGA.
Duke – I’m a stranger to most west slope politics so I’m curious about this editorial from The Sentinel. Why/How did the Sentinel editorial board ever sign off on this?
My bad. Scratch the question, Duke. I somehow missed there is an Aurora Sentinel, not to be confused with the GJ Sentinel. Now it makes (more) sense.
Michael: Sentinel newspapers are a chain of small suburban newspapers. There also is the Lakewood Sentinel.
Who'd have thunk one would have to leave the burbs to find diversity in names?! The Wray Gazette, Holyoke Enterprise, Burlington Record, Flagler News.
Sadly, Michael, western slope politics
is pretty simple. Rs rule, and always have.
To me, the real story is the systematic way the Local Republicans are turning Mesa county into a gun, god, and drill, baby, drill enclave.
Mesa College is becoming the fiefdom of Tim Foster, who now relies on an ever increasing team of oil and gas guys on his staff and faculty. For example, the former director of COGA, David Ludlam, is now the PR Director for Mesa. Professor Soychack is another inflential transfer from the petroleum lobby.
The gunnys are everywhere. They now have the taxpayer funded Cameo Gun Club at which to hang out and pretend to shoot whomever they dream about while teaching the kids about the joys of AR-15 ownership.
The media here is as sold out and one sided as they can be. Just this morning, in announcing Hicks' senate bid, the CBS affiliate left Corys' statement about Hick being just another left wing nut case( something to that effect) up in print while the announcer sat silently waiting for the slow readers to let it sink in. It is typical of the completely Republican media here. ( I will add there is one, low powered liberal station KWSI and we get cable, of course. But when it comes to local media with significant impact…the GOP owns it.
There was a day when some of those Republicans were great men: Tillie Bishop, Mike Strang.
Bud Moellenberg, Bev Bledsoe, Fred Anderson.
This might be a good time to remind everyone of the breadth of Andrew's endorsements. We have a fine stable of candidates in the primary – and I'll be solidly behind the winner. I'm not taking the bait that there is only one person, man or woman, who can beat the man from Yuma.
Meaning no disrespect, Michael, there are a lot of "former this" and "former that" on Andrew's endorsement list. Sort of reminds me of the old saying about the South Platte River in spring time: "a mile wide and a foot deep."
Wonder how many of those "ex's" will stay on board now that the Governor is in the race. As for the fine stable of candidates, there are some good ones in there; but also people in the wrong place at the wrong time. How many in that "stable" would be able to withstand the onslaught of the far right wing, dark money PAC, ads?
I don't get to vote in your primary (no, I'm not changing my registration as I hope I can vote for Governor Bill Weld for president). Hick has my vote if he's the nominee; maybe Johnston.
Fair point, but they are still a presence and influence in a wide swath of communities around the state. I'm not suggesting everyone in the barn is up to the task of a general election, just that we sufficient talent and legitimate reasons to push back on the "there's only one man" theory with the new contestant. I'll gladly vote for JH if he is the victor. I get R&R's point on the arithmetic of having dollars for Iowa or South Carolina if it wasn't being spent in CO, but again that could be a false flag, too.
Let's have a primary worthy of the talent that it holds and may the best candidate win. I'm pro-Andrew, not anti-Alice, anti-Angela, anti-John, etc.
When the state's biggest oil company blew up two people in their homes, Gov Hick declined to levy a single penny of fines against that company. No criminal case, either. Instead, he turned over enforcement of the Firestone explosion to the Trump Administration. Cory Gardener will never make Hick answer questions about how this happened. Shouldn't Dems?
Perhaps the Green Party will field an environmentalist candidate in a race between Gardner and Hick.
Um, no, Alva. Definitely not going to shut up and let y’all crown Hick Senator without being very clear and vocal about why we have better choices. And if you think I’m a tool of the NR SC, then they must be as bad about choosing tools as Hick was as a Presidential candidate.
If Democrats weren't fighting among ourselves, we wouldn't be Democrats.
We tend to kiss and make up after the primaries, unlike Republicans. They keep grudges, feed and water them and nurse them with care.
Beg to differ, Gertie. Remember the GOP love fest after Little Marco, Lying Ted and Looser Kasich lost the nod to You Know Who?
Gertie’s point (in my opinion) is valid for state party comparisons (unless Moddy’s dress was recently stained by Steve House?) I don’t think Tanc and Beauprez have much of a love-fest going on. Anybody seen Dan Maes lately? When was the last big fight for us that left lasting wounds? I’m as far from a party insider as there is but from the outside looking in we appear to be relatively harmonious (and functional) at the end of the day.
You're correct, Michael. Just look at the Mesa County Republicans are shunning Dan Thurlow. I still hear far-gone RWNJs putting down Tillie Bishop. He wasn't conservative enough.
Good point. Locally they do tend to nurse their resentments. Who can forget to Out House 3 incident?
You're right, Gertie. And so are you, Michael. Here in the state, after the primaries are over, we understand that the goal is to defeat the Red team. Beating up our fellow Blues only puts gas in Team Red's tank.
Five Thirty-Eight thinks a coronation is not in order quite yet:
Realistically, the field is Hick, Romanov, Madden and the dreamers. My heart is with Alice, my money is on Hick.
That's my read on the field as well. I think Hickenlooper does have the establishment and name recognition behind him – but I also think Romanoff and Madden have a chance to beat him. It frankly will probably come down to how the unaffiliated primary voters break.
Curious, Voyageur — don't you think Johnston, current money leader and prior candidate, is going to be in the field? I figure he's going to at least be on the ballot for the June primary.
With the weirdness of a Presidential primary happening on March 3 and the precinct caucuses which will start the "other" primary on March 7, anyone expect a Presidential campaign organization either officially endorsing or unofficially cooperating with a Senate campaign?
Johnston finished in third place in the gubernatorial race. His money support seems mostly out of state and the teacher union hates him. He may buy his way to the ballot — as he did last time — but I just don't see finishing third and charging to victory.
On the proverbial other hand, it’s not likely hick, romanoff and madden each get the 30 pct of the convention necessary for the ballot. I’m not sure Alice would try to petition on.
If either romo or madden consolidates the liberal support they have a good shot at beating hick. Stay tuned.
I guess I just think at least one woman ought to make the primary and that Alice has the best record of the many well-qualified but not well known women running.
My first election as a Colorado Democrat was in 1976. This may the most interesting and important election in my lifetime.
If Hick wins the senate nomination, Democrats will get behind him…including me, Michael, mama, cookie and all the rest. We will take down the slimiest politician in the state…Cory Gardner (R-Koch Industries).