President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(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%
April 05, 2012 05:53 PM UTC
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is easily the biggest problem facing the long-term viability of the state.
Is now used in California and Washington, with disastrous results in my opinion. It leads to lots of monekey business. For instance, as DKOS just pointed out, the primary for US Senator in California now has Feinstein leading with 51% and her nearest Republican competitor (there are many) at 2%. As pointed out, if the Dems had just put up some Democrat with name recognition as a stalking horse, that person could have gotten more of the vote than the Republicans and then just let Feinstein coast to re-election. I don’t see any advantage to this (except getting rid of the political parties, which have already been rendered useless by Citizens United) and think there is a lot of mischief that could be had.
is what our well-monied republican friends are up to. They continue to use the principle of disaster capitalism, founded on the notion that if you wreck it, you can rebuild it YOUR way.
They are counting on election day mayhem.
Pleeze, please, puh-leeze, support the League of Women Voters, of which, I am a member.
Fairly certain Colorado “fair” campaign act is a violation of the law, specifically the entire first amendment.
and not make any kind of case to support it.
If you want to eliminated the caucus/primary system, you have to go to Condorcet (e.g. Ranked Choice) voting – do not stop at IRV, do not collect $200. IRV suffers from a similar flaw as the top-two general election system; only something as complicated as Ranked Choice accounts for multiple candidates of very similar ideals.
Otherwise, keep the primary election. If you need something in the middle, consider New York’s open endorsement system and a reasonably open ballot access requirement for minor parties.
But I wouldn’t call the proposal nutty. It’s a very reasonable question to put before the voters.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, Pols. Conservative ballot initiatives must be breaking the law? All proponents of conservative ballot initiatives are Doug Bruce?
Why not judge these initiatives on their merits instead.
The Dead Guvs aren’t saying that the ballot initiatives are breaking the law. And they are in fact saying that they’re hoping this isn’t a repeat of our last fiasco regarding ballot initiatives where conservatives did break the law (and not just Bruce – those who helped him, too…).
But now that you brought it up… The initiative to change the State Senate distribution has been considered illegal by the US Supreme Court for 50 years or so.
The merits of killing the property tax are that, thanks to TABOR and decades of Republican indoctrination, many school districts in this state would go bankrupt within a year were the initiative to pass. Personally I’d love to have this discussion; it could drive a permanent Republican minority in the state in the same way California Republicans shot themselves in both feet…
Not much to discuss about Eggmendment III: “What? Another Death Star? The first two worked so well…”