President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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State Senate Majority
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November 05, 2013 05:47 PM UTC
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Don't forget tonight is also the founding night for the People's Republic of Dumphuckistan!
I voted this way.. so I would not be surprised of the outcome would be the same….
Watching the school funding and school board races from a distance reminds me Mark Twain was probably correct and prescient when he said In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
66 is losing by a lot more than I expected. I guess that shows how the vote will go if there's no effective marketing by either side. And that's sad it's so lopsided.
Looks like a big night for the reform ticket in Denver ed race with O'Brien, Johnson, Taylor and Rodriguez showing big leads in early returns.
but 66 is barely passing, an ill omen for it overall.
I don't call them the reform ticket. I call them the big money ticket.
Not true. They are the "corporate tool" ticket. You had your choice: Union Tool or Corporate Tool.
Ads on the Daily Camera website are for the election initiates – I'm guessing the camera is charging per impression.
A66 only passed in Denver by 0.2% – the school reform folks have to get it together next time around if they want to pass (very needed) school funding changes.
So… where does this leave the rest of the school reform (SB31-213)?
If the construction of SB 213 was as intended, none of it should come to pass absent the passage of Amendment 66.
SECTION 12.
Effective date.
This act takes effect upon the proclamation by the governor of the vote cast in a statewide election at which a majority of those voting approve an increase in state tax revenuesfor the purpose of funding public education.
That's what I was afraid of.
Go back and try it again. 🙁
Or let's just seccede and have a new state where education is funded by severance taxes. We could call it Alaskoming. Or Wyaska.
With effective marketing this time
We could start here.
Where did that come from, MichaelBowman? I didn't see a header on it.
I got interested in this issue in 2008 with then-Governor Ritter championed Amendment 58, which failed. I was one of the campaign spokesman for the effort and had the opportunity to debate it a handful of times with Bill Cadman. We have a Byzantine cauldron of tax code on this that is not serving us well.
On one hand the industry has benefitted [unjustly so, I would argue] to the tune of over a billion dollars in the last decade, while on the other hand we're trying to raise a billion for education. Those are the dots that shouldn't be that hard to connect. The industry gets a pass, any attempt to raise the issue is met with a tsunami of money [some of that billion they have now] to beat it back – and they'll continue to sell us the idea that natural gas is cheap in those cute tv ads.
We have a structural problem, and trying to put a band-aid on the challenge isn't going to cure the cancer. Perhaps we need a homeopath with a new salve? [sorry, couldn't help myself. This evolving story on the Stanley family in Colorado Springs and their contribution to advancing the cause of treating childhood epilepsy with hemp oil is heartening.]
I have mentioned before on these pages the “Initiative for Surface Owners Rights” from a few years back. It was an attempt to address just the tax inequity you mention and we see spelled out in the story to which you linked.
Coloradoans don’t seem to fully grasp that our state government has GIVEN the oil and gas companies over a billion dollars that should have been used to fund our states’ needs.
Every governor we have had in recent memory, with the exception of Bill Ritter, has been an industry lackey, staunchly defending the theft of Colorados’ wealth by the worlds’ richest companies.
It is way past time to correct this situation.
100% of board with that.
I agree. We need a people-powered Governor who is not beholden to any corporate interests and will refuse PAC money.
Did Rollie Heath's ballot initiative do better than this?
63.5% no, 36.4% yes for Prop 103.
Current Am 66 results are 66.2% no, 33.7% yes. So, it did do better (at least with 77% of the votes in).
Secession appears to be going down to defeat
Of course it was pretty much just a hissy fit vote to pursue secession and would have been subject to several other unclearable hurdles. I knew that it would have to then pass in the state legislature but the article in the paper said legislature or by Colorado voters (?) and then it would have to be approved in the US congress. So they've made their statement, but not in Weld County where the statement was pretty soundly rejected.
It was, in short, a protest vote, venting not much more than goober frustration that a man not completely white was reelected President of these United States one year ago. This was the first opportunity for the zealots to spew.
ruralists have always felt differently about guns, sexuality, and womens' rights than the rest of us. But they've never felt the need to seceed or nullify until the 44th Presidency. conway played into it, stuck his neck out at what he thought was the opportune moment, and got clipped.
Most of the 11 counties' residents thought about it. Those Government subsidy checks, unemployment compensation, and the various other "evil guvbmint" assists might be put at risk in a successfull seccession. And all 11 counties bring in more Government money than they pay out. All 11 Counties are carried by the remaining 55 Counties.
It was that old bagger "greed or hate, hate or greed" choice………..again..
Sad but true.
Tea Party loses in Virginia – McAuliffe is ahead and Washington Post has called it.
McAuliffe won in a squeak, not a landslide, as Chris Matthews predicted.
There will be a lot of Tea Party bloviating about how Cuccinelli was able to tighten this race up by pivoting to an all anti-Obamacare, all the time message for the last couple of weeks.
My analysis? McAuliffe was never a likeable candidate, and too many Democrats stayed home rather than vote for him. The result is that Democrats probably didn't gain the Delegates they need to be effective.
Right. He had baggage big time. Horrible DNC chairman before Howard Dean (who I still want back for Chairman for at least a decade) whocouldn't even get a win out of a paper bag back then. '02 and '04 elections were perfect examples, and he didn't do shit for Gore either.
Tea Party loses in Alabama 1st.
That may have been my favorite result of the whole night. They're even getting tired of them in Dixie.
@MADCO,
That is good and unexpected news.
Giant news out of Hawaii. gay Marriage has passed out of committee and now goes to the floor of the House for second reading. Not a done deal yet but this was the biggie. And they committee members sat through days of testimony.
Go mom!!!
ps – the Republicans have called an emergency cacus meeting. I'm guessing it'll be to gang up on my mom again.
Go mom, indeed!
Your Mom is awesome, Dave. A real gem.
Yep. Echoing the sentiment here, Dave… (My name is David)
Good news out of VA, the tea party extremists Ken Cuccinelli and EW Jackson were defeated by democrats. It is a very good day for the voters of VA. Well done VA voters.
Good review here.
I'd like to believe "Keep Cucc out of your cooch!" won the election, but it's never just one thing. I rue the day when "small government" conservatives realize that social issues are killing them, and people can just vote for the party that promises to squander less of their tax money.
And Illinois passed their gay marriage act.
It passed in my native Illinois, too. Go Blackhawks! Except when you're playing the Avs. Ditto Bulls except it looks like I'll be pretty free to root for you during the play offs.
I get that Amendment 66 isn't going to pass, but I'm concerned about what looks like 2 additional Douglas-County-style conservatives to the Jefferson County School board.
Someone please tell me I'm overreacting.
My wife and I are watching these races as well and wondering why we live in a state that doesn't value education.
I'm scared that we're electing cohorts of Laura Boggs.
Not overreacting — school boards are battlegrounds everywhere — the right sees this, the left apparently has yet to figure it out. Here in DougCo, it looks like all four of the pro-public education candidates will be defeated. Still more of the same anti-education nonsense, I'm afraid. The only bright spot is that the margains of victory are not so large, you'd think maybe that might have an impact — but then again that's probably just my wishful thinking, wackos and extremeists never seem to get moderated . . .
No, you're supposed to say "It's ok, Scott. You're just overreacting. They're not anti-public education. They just have different opinions than you about how to run our public schools", dammit!
Why the hell are we electing people who seem to hate public schools to govern our public school boards? That's like putting a Raiders fan in as interim head coach for the Broncos. It's like a steakhouse asking a team of vegetarians to create their menu. Seriously, WTF?
Unfortunately, you're probably not overreacting. All three opposed A66, and at least two of the three made it clear that they didn't think the schools were underfunded. "If the schools need more funding" was the exact phrase uttered by one of the candidates at a forum.
I don't know about DougCo.
Maybe the recent Board direction proves you can do a lot in a wealthy district that doens't hurt student performance. I once read a study (book) about Chicago public educaiton k-12 in the 50's and 60's. Part of the point was that everyone went to the neighborhood parish school, whether they were Catholic or not. As a result hardly anything the CSD did mattered to overall student performance in the city.
Meanwhile, in DougCo, we see affirmation that students from affluent housholds do better, no matter what's going on at the school. It always struck me as odd that the outsiders that came to DougCo to take over a school board (who funded all the voucher litigaiton?) would choose DougCo. It seems like it would make more sense to take over an underperforming district (in a solidly red voting area) and turn it around.
Anyhoo – all the time and money on this election – not much changes. Sorta the way the founders intended. And CO schools remain underfunded (the countdown is on for higher ed to be completely unfunded in a few years)and locally controlled because even those who support increased investment cannot agree how to raise it or spend it.
With the gap between the vouchers and the cost of almost all of the private schooling (almost all of it religious) available, the vouchers are a perk for the upper middle class. The rest can't afford the private schools even with the voucher.
Unlike voucher programs for innner cities where schools are terrible, Douglas county schools are considered among the best, so this isn't about getting poor kids out of awful schools. It's about I've got mine, I want even more and I want it subsidized, screw you.
This will make it harder to provide good education in the public schools and contribute to the gap between students from higher income families and students from lower income families as more money gets sucked out of good school systems with the spread of anti-public education, reverse Robin Hood elite voucherism as discount coupons for the affluent.
It's even worse than that,BluCat. It's I've got mine, I want more and I want you to pay for it, even though you can't afford it for your own kids."
1. I always said that A66 was DOA.
2. However, I never would have predicted 66/34 for NO.
3. Money does not always win. $11M to 38¢. And 38¢ wins.
Wow, A-66 barely squeaked by in Denver and Boulder. Where were the tax-loving constituencies tonight? You know … the ones who pay little or no tax but like to vote increased taxes on others.
You must mean the super rich because, via taxes such as payroll taxes and others, low and middle income tax payers pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than do many if not most in the top fraction of the top 1%. Sometimes a lot higher as many at the very top pay none. And now in Douglas County those elite income earners can get tax payer subsidized discount coupons to send their kids to private schools those on the lower end of the middles class income scale can't afford regardless of half or less off coupons which is what Doug CO vouchers are.
Ryal Call is on drugs if he thinks Tancredo is going to bring urban and rural areas together. The radical agenda is the republican agenda that was rejected in Virginia tonight Ryan. Terry M got an f grade from the nra and he still beat his tea party challenger. Virginia shows us the tea party extremists like Tancredo and Buck are going to lose badly in 2014
Not to mention Tancredo flipping off a protected First Amendment activity.
Stay classy, Tom.
Using the numbers at the TPTSNBN Toast site: 0.7% of the population of Colorado voted to secede. (Just shy of 38,000 votes yes to secede, population just shy of 5.2 million souls in the state.) Now I'm sure the vote totals aren't up to the minute (Yuma county voted overwhelmingly for secession: 57 to 13–votes, not percentages–with those kind of numbers, it's gonna take awhile to finalize the count.)
I find it reassuring that there are still sensible people in Colorado.
A quick head count looks like the margin of loss in Weld County exceeds the vote of the entire electorate in the counties that vote to secede. [sans Yuma County, which appears to be using carrier pigeons to deliver the results].
Weld County was always the lynchpin of this scheme. I guess folks in Weld County realized that emergency services when needed are important and paying out of state tuition to send a kid to CSU or Mines is dumb.
Well, we won some, we lost some. La lucha continua (the struggle continues).
I find it interesting that DeBlasio won NYC Mayor's race by a landslide considerable bigger than even Christy's in New Jersey to remain Governor. Since before 9/11 and especially after that, the candidate most authoritarian on crime and security has been the winner in NYC.
This first Dem in decades to win, and by so much, is pretty much the opposite of decades worth of winning candidates. It's a loud and clear repudiation of the stop and frisk policy that subjects every black and brown young man in the city to the indignity and inconvenience of entirely unjustified searches on a regular basis, based on skin color alone, a policy that he vehemently opposes.
It's also a repudiation of the idea that as long as the wealthiest New Yorkers are doing great, NYC is doing great. De Blasio also ran on increased taxes of the wealthiest and finding ways to help ordinary New Yorkers prosper. Whether he can manage it is another question but the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers apparently hope he can.
In the American city most traumatized by terrorism I find enormous hope for a turn around in the erosion of our rights in this sudden and decisive rejection of the notion that there is no such thing as too great a loss of the rights we're supposed to be able to take for granted as American citizens as long as it might keep us safer. I hope it's a sign of a growing nationwide change in attitude that will force the dismantling of the police state that's been being built and that too many of us have accepted out of fear.
I wish DeBlasio all the best.
I can't imagine that the stop-and-frisk policy is long for this world.when one of those brown kids is De Blasio's son.
You know things have changed radically when a mixed race family including a wife who fell in love and married him even though she had considered herself to be a lesbian is a plus in an election. You don't have to be as old as I am (not even close) to remember a time when a family like that would have made a political career utterly out of the question.
I know.Ain't it grand?