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
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State House Majority
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December 09, 2012 11:37 PM UTC
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This irrational radicalization of the grassroots right wing
It’s not a question of will voters change their views. That will continue but most of it has already occurred. The big change is due to demographics – every day old people die and young people reach age 18 and can vote. And that shift over the next several year will decimate the percentage identifying as Republican.
of Republicans polled definitely want their states to remain in the United States of America? That’s pretty stunning.
I’ve seen this voter fraud claim before but I haven’t seen it accompanied by specific allegations of specific cases. No allegations that voting machines in specific places were tampered with or boxes of uncounted mail-in ballots from R leaning precincts were found in a landfill, etc.
I suspect their proof of voter fraud goes something like this. The lying mainstream and Dem leaning polls said Obama would win and they always lie. Our polls were fair and balanced and said Romney would win. Since Obama did win, it can only be because the election was stolen.
No wonder Republican identification is shrinking. Almost half of what’s left has already seceded, not yet from the country but from reality. So much for the effort to broaden the party’s appeal. The base appears to be doubling down on driving out minorities, young people and women.
They expected to win this time by suppressing the Dem leaning vote and just can’t believe all those “urban” (minority) voters were successfully “pulled out of their apartments” (where they imagine all minorities live) to vote and actually stayed in line for hours to do so. So they’ve decided it didn’t really happen that way.
As demographic change continues and their voter suppression strategy proves ineffective, how do they expect to win next time and the time after, outside of their safe gerrymandered CDs? Rejecting loyalty to country and denigrating everyone but a shrinking pool of angry white men is no way to attract the votes they’ll need to survive as a national party. On the other hand, losing the crazies now means losing most of their base. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of monster creators.
I don’t really care if there is a “new party to represent the half of America with ideologically conservative predispositions.” Calling BS, Guvs. The fact that Republicans have engineered their own destruction cannot be separated from their whole movement’s essential moral bankruptcy and lack of redeeming goodness. It is one and the same.
The true GOP agenda has strayed so far from the interests of the majority that maybe it’s just time for them to burn, then exist as a semi-permanent minority for awhile. Maybe fuck ’em.
Like a tax incentive to denounce their citizenship? Anyone that no longer wants to be an American because their side lost an election needs to know they have the opportunity to make that happen, and I say we should help them.
Call it as Twitty’s job stimulus program.
Give the sorry losers (for want of a better term) a tax write off for the expenses it takes for them to leave at the earliest opportunity (excluding any oversea expenditures), thus injecting money into the U.S. economy and opening up employment opportunities.
Well, I mean unless its all just talk. Then it wouldn’t work.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/dan-froomkin/republican-lies-2012-election_b_2258586.html?icid=hp_search_art
Run! It’s the Zombie CORN!
This is yet one more example that despite how smart we are as a species (at least relative to most other animals), despite our technologiws,and art accoimplishments, we can be stunningly stupid.
Making up the “fact” that ACORN, a tiny, defunct activist group, could steal an election – without leaving a trace – is just like religion. Making up “facts” without evidence.
And these unfactual facts are impossible to let go of. People die to prove that their hallucinations are true and yours aren’t. People, humans, discuss these unfacts with passion and duration, yet there is not one shred of evidence.
And people wonder why I’m a cynic?
What’s happening to the Democratic Party?
It seems to me that the words “progressive” and “liberal” are no longer considered frightening labels in the party at large. Maybe the tenets of this “fringe” are becoming more mainstream in the party? Or have Democrats who hew to the left, and have always been there, lost their fear of “coming out”? (If Bill Clinton were to declare today, “The era of big government is over.” he’d be showered with demands to, at the least, explain himself.)
It’s commonly accepted that the Democratic Party is more unified–in its diversity, yet–than ever before. Why? It can’t be only because Republicans are silly.
Did the Occupy Movement touch our guilt and awaken our more progressive instincts? Have liberals finally worked through their battered spouse syndrome? Why are blue dogs no longer as handsome as yellow dogs?
Besides my jealousy that Republicans are having so much fun navel picking, it seems to me Democrats too should be studying themselves, so down the road we can replicate this seeming reincarnation–say, in about 20 years when the Republicans, whatever they’ve become or named themselves, come slithering back.
… that poll wasn’t exactly fair.
Look, if you’re an average voter and get a poll question asking whether ACORN helped steal the election, you’re going to assume that there must have been some credible evidence to that effect, or else you wouldn’t be getting the question in the first place.
This is the flip side to those polls asking whether Obama was born in Kenya, or is a Muslim. The mere fact that the questions are being asked lend the point of view some (unfounded) legitimacy.
And as for Republicans believing that there was “some sort of” vote fraud in 2012 – well hell, I’m a Democrat and I’m sure that there was SOME vote fraud – if miniscule – going on. It just stands to reason.
What does disturb me, though, is that 25% of Republicans favor seceding from the Union, and only 56% of Republicans oppose (while the rest don’t even care!). That is absolutely disgraceful for the party that regularly cloaks itself in the flag and cheap, tawdry displays of patriotism.
Dinesh D’Souza is our next contestant on Hypocritical Family Values Conservatives!
D’Souza, author of “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” (basis for the box office smash hit “Obama: 2016”), is out as President of King’s College this week. Why? D’Souza went to an evangelical conference in South Carolina with mistress in tow. D’Souza being married and King’s College being an evangelical university didn’t mesh well with the whole mistress thing…
D’Souza was a vocal advocate of many of the whacky theories believed by thousands of this year’s conservative voter base.
….to spell “Hypocrite.”
It’s as predictable as the sun coming up.
Apologies to Janis.