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%
May 19, 2021 10:29 AM UTC
16 Comments
Bye-di!
And if this is the best they've got, 2022 is looking good for Colorado Dems.
The conundrum – In order to get any nomination in the Trumpublican party, you have to be a hard-core culture warrior, speaking out against Democrats' radical agenda. In order to win in a statewide election in Colorado, you can't be a hard-core culture warrior, and you definitely do not want to be tied to Trump.
Through gerrymandering and voter suppression, the Republicans may do alright in 2022, but longer-term, Trump is hollowing out the party like a nasty parasite.
Given that only 3 people in the entire state care about this, I don't see how it hurts her.
I don't agree at all. Lots of people are watching this.
As usual, Blue Lady, you’re right. There are many thousands of CU grads and we surely care about the grotesqueries afflicting our Alma Mater.
Yep, I was there for four years in the late '60's. It matters. My sons have degrees from CU Boulder and UCCS, and one daughter-in-law has a degree from CU, as did my sister.
Thanks V! My years of lurking around this joint are finally paying off. 🙂
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I’m not certain the Kennedy hiring, “resignation,” and lovely parting gifts decisions will be crucial in an election, though it certainly could be considered outrageous — after all, it sounds as if it sticks to the terms of the initial contract.
Kennedy’s contract terms began with an 80% increase over the previous President’s pay, with $200,000 potential “bonuses” for various tasks that would take compensation up to $850,000 (MORE than a 100% increase). After his first year, the salary rose to $850,000. His contract extends through 2022. It also included various other goodies such as “10% of his salary each year contributed to his personal retirement plan.” The contract also specified “If the regents voted to fire Kennedy without cause, CU would owe him his base salary for any time remaining on his contract, which runs through June 2022, minus any pay he would receive in a new position during that time.”
So, he’s working 2 years of a 3-year contract, and walking out with approximately $3 million from CU (minus whatever he may get at another job before June 2022) for the 2 years of work.
What SHOULD be disqualifying was Kennedy’s selection over others leaked as finalists. At htat time, Kennedy was an out of office US Rep (10 years prior) who lost a Senate race, a 3 year position at Accenture, and 3 academic jobs — the last being President at U of North Dakota [enrollment ~15,000, budget something like 1/10th of U of colorado system’s]. “Among the candidates who were rejected by the regents: former Gov. Bill Ritter, former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, former Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, the president of No. 10-ranked Penn State University, the former chancellor of No. 37-ranked Texas A&M, the chancellor of No. 36-ranked Rutgers University and the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.”
You guys are really reaching on this one – lol.
Polis is family to me, so I’ll be supporting the Governor – but I love Heidi. She’s a damn good candidate. She has a chance to revive and reestablish a gop presence in Colorado.
I really hope she stays positive and doesn’t go negative. Her best path is to run a solid campaign in 2022, with zero muddy attack. I don’t think she’ll win – but an inclusive, fiscal conservative campaign in 2022 plants the seeds, and then wins the governorship in 2026 (and I’ll be supporting her then).
Let’s not forget that Colorado continually votes to uphold TABOR. For all the talk of Colorado being blue, it definitely wants to maintain its fiscal conservatism. GOPers fail to capitalize on that usually because were incapable of articulating the issue – in Stapleton’s case, he went far too negative – he’s a good man, but the mud didn’t reflect well, especially since he had won 2 statewide races before without going negative; it was his finest quality. Glenn (senate campaign against Bennett) was also a damn good candidate, but ran with too much bigotry.
A fiscal conservative, who is not negative, and does not speak with bias against minorities, can win Colorado. Heidi has those qualities.
With that – if Heidi’s team is reading – be cautious. Don’t hire the same GOP consultants that tanker Glenn and Stapleton’s campaigns due to negativity.
And yet she said through the Trump era and the height of bias against minorities that they were on the right side of history.
The reason people like Boebert get elected is that R's vote for R's, no matter what – cf. Randy Baumgardner. It's the folks in the middle – or a significant portion of them – who can be persuaded either way. Statewide races are becoming bluer and bluer. Whatever Ganahl runs for, the Dems will have an excellent candidate opposing her.
I’m fairly confident that as long as the GOP continues to stamp out more “good men” candidates in the mold of Glenn and Stapleton and Bruce (and Ganahl), Colorado will remain safely blue . . .
. . . and Colorado rarely “upholds” Tabor anymore. DeBrucing is a common as table salt — even in red jurisdictions. (There hasn’t been an actual vote on “Tabor” because the asshole wrote the foolishness so that it pretty much can’t be undone in a vote.) But as more are more locales do DeBruce, Dougie’s abode and his legacy is more and more deep in the outhouse dungpit he dug.
" Fiscal conservatism". Good luck polishing that turd !
Yep, that right there is the hoariest of chestnuts. "Fiscal conservatism" exists only when someone proposes using public money to benefit real live human beings. Massive deficit spending is our friend when public money flows directly into the coffers of the uber-rich.
I like how she talks about "Democrats" and "CU students" in two different lights, even though >70% of CU is Democrats, and most of the Republicans are either libertarian or New England liberal Republicans. Only 1/8th of the faculty is Republican. It's another example of Republicans talking about Democrats as something other than legitimate members of society. They're not "real Americans" in the minds of fascists like Ganahl. The fact GOP insiders are dumb enough to think she's moderate just because she's female either shows how sexist, how radical, or both the GOP establishment has become.