CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
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*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 11, 2013 02:19 PM UTC
16 Comments
"Cletus the slack jawed yokel" is sure to endear rural Coloradans to your blog.
Is there a point?
JPB need only provide the media with a better portrait.
What're they gonna do….secede?
Ah, nubby, you better than anyone should know just how much we really love slack-jawed Coloradans here, rural or not . . . you endearing little yokel, you !!!
I, for one, lie awake at night worrying about that…
N3bbish- You've never lived in rural Colorado have you?Anybody but "slack-jawed yokel"would be a major exception to the norm and they don't read this blog or much of anything else.
I have this feeling slack-jawed describes you pretty well. I might leave off the yokel part,that's open to question.
If at first you don't secede, try, try again.
Yep, 'cuz all of us rubes out here in RURAL colorady we think of Cletus as one of our own!
And what us poor countryfolk need more'n anything is a slimy trollito doofus from some strip-malled, car-clogged HighlandsRanchesque mono-typed cookie-cutter suburb to come to our rescue by defending our honor a blog. Thanks noobikins, you're a hero man!
And langel, as a multi-decade resident of the hinterlands, I think you're wrong. I believe there is a higher concentration of idiots in many a Front Range 'burb.
Depends on your definition of "idiots", CT. Suburban kids in schools with higher tax bases and access to early childhood education tend to have better reading and math skills, for sure, than urban kids in schools without those things. And here I'm going to talk not about the strugging working class 'burbs, but those where the average household income is well over the 100K mark.
What rich kids lack is empathy; having never been without, they have trouble not blaming those who lack. Having never reached outside of their own cultural bubbles, they still see those who are not white or not rich as somehow "alien".
Teachers do good job of breaking down some of this through multicultural literature studies, and the rich schools sometimes actually get to the latter half of the 20th century in social studies, so they get to study contemporary issues.
While urban kids understand these things in their core. They get that they will always be suspected of shoplifting, vagrancy, and general mayhem, because they are not white and/or not rich. They get that life is unfair, and there is not much that they can do about it by themselves. They get that violence, whether verbal or physical, is the first response of the fearful and paranoid.
So my point is that one can be an idiot as far as one's understanding of the real world, while having really great scores on standardized tests.
My point is that rural Colorado is not a mono-lithic block of angry throwbacks to serve as props for GOP suburban trolls. The geography of the Non-Front-Range in Colorado is immense. Its political geography may not be quite as diverse, but diverse it is all the same, Sean Conway speaks for Gunnison County no more than Rep. Fields speaks for Phillips.
Excellent point.
Well said, CT. The landscape is littered with candidates who hired Front Range consulting shops who didn't have a clue about rural Colorado. When our metro friends think of the Western Slope at all, which is seldom, they think of nice places to play. A few might even acknowledge it's where their water comes from. But most don't have a clue that communities over here are not the same, nor are their attitudes or voting habits.
As far as idiots are concerned, every county in the state has a nice selection.
I agree. It's probably a pretty standard percentage of the population. They are part of the "fool some of the people all of the time" category.