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 03, 2013 08:44 AM UTC
20 Comments
Hmmmmm …
Oh well, . . . at least we've still got Nixon not to kick around any more . . .
Great. Now I have beer in my sinuses.
I think it is great that Ken is running. It proves that the GOP is still the Party of Hate®.
I was a solid Repub for the first 35 years of my life (starting with my "I Like Ike" button). Now, I will likely never vote for a Repub again. Even if that person is the best candidate.
Good call. As has been demonstrated at every level, Republican majorities must be fought tooth and nail in order to prevent horrible legislation. Unfortunately that means that all those opposed to the poisonous legislation that comes with all GOP majority legislatures, school boards and City Councils and the obstructionism that comes comes with a Republican US House and enough votes in the Senate to filibuster at will cannot, in good conscience, vote for any individual Republican. At least not until the present incarnation of the GOP has managed to destroy itself and a new GOP emerges.
Oh and if you're homesick for the old GOP, google the 1956 Republican platform. It pops right up as it's it's been flying around the intertubes these days.
http://boldprogressives.org/2012/08/the-surprisingly-progressive-republican-party-platform-of-1956/
– See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/45166/coming-soon-paul-ryan-stumping-for-coffman#comment-519848
I honestly don't know what happened here. I tried to copy a link from a comment of mine yesterday and it appeared not to work so I just suggested the google, hit post and got all this. I really am pathetic when it comes to this intertubes stuff.
Dave,
If you view a republican as the best candidate, why would you not vote for her or him?
Elliot, Didn't you say you'd never vote for a Democrat, only "not vote" for the Republican, if the Democrat was the better candidate?
Because I will not enable the Party of Hate®. I want these disgusting poisonous toadstools destroyed.
There is a theory out there that if a party is deprived of votes it will moderate on various issues. A countervailing theory is that it actually becomes more extreme.
If it becomes more extreme it loses more votes and fades. I'm okay with that on some level. Power abhors a vacuum – something would step in to replace the Republican Party if it falls.
Precisely.
@Elliot — rewarding Bozo the Clown with laughter (your vote) does not encourage him to stop making a complete fool of himself.
When this iteration of the GOP is dead and forgotten, then we can talk about split tickets again.
for me it would involve an assessment of the likelihood that such an R would just abandon all principles and reason to join a gang the would insist on voting to repeal Obamacare 37 times, etc
At the simplest level it's tactics vs. strategy. If I make a tactical (locally important) move to support a Republican because they're the better candidate, and then they turn around and support a Republican majority, then I've won a battle and by doing so I've lost the war.
Beyond that… In 1994 Republicans managed to convince the US citizenry that Democrats as a whole had been in power in Congress for too long and had lost their way; they needed to be replaced in bulk. At the time, many people said Democrats just needed to be taught a lesson in being out of power for a while, and that they'd get better. Well – Republicans need to "get better", if they even remember how what "better" is/was. They need a good swift nationwide kick out of office to remind them that governance isn't supposed to be all "my way or the highway".
Right again.
The problem for Mr. Buck:
For U.S. Senate? The question to ask: The Hill: Report: Rubio to introduce Senate bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks
If they want people to believe that they're all about freedom, promoting prosperity and jobs jobs,jobs, they really ought to take five minutes off from their all uterus, healthcare reform recall, gays and voter suppression all the time legislative agenda
I think Buck would be a good choice. Doubt if any Repub could take out Udall and it's not like Buck didn't already implode his career the last time he ran for Senate. Buck has nothing to lose that he hasn't already lost.
And if the GOP has already conceded this one (sure looks like it), he's as good a token candidate as any I guess.