U.S. Senate
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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
Governor
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(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
60%
60%
40%↓
Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
40%
30%
Sec. of State
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(D) George Stern
(D) A. Gonzalez
(R) Sheri Davis
40%
40%
30%
State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%
30%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
50%
40%
40%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 22, 2014 09:46 AM UTC
16 Comments
Colorado Pols regurgitates DC-based Democrat hit piece. Story at 4, 5 and 6!
Do you dispute the cited voting percentages? If not, it isn't a hit piece. Wait . I forgot. You people consider facts, not to mention real world reality in general, to have a liberal bias.
Colorado Pols regurgiates nothing, Moderatus. We *ALL* know Coffmann is on his way out, and will be unceremoniously thown out in Novemeber.
My best suggestion to Coffmann is to resign effective immediately.
I would prefer getting frog marched out of Rayburn.
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The bosses
crickets.
So is this a list of ALL votes, or is there some Tea Party designated list of bills they supported? While I realize they're a useful gimmick politically, I generally dislike these types of ratings as they're easily rigged to reflect inaccurate numbers.
Now that I'm done griping about this particular press release…
Moderatus – you have to admit that Coffman is a conseravtive in a swing district. No amount of reinvention or self-denial on the part of Coffman supporters will change that.
And further, it's not like they are dredging up votes from 2010-2011 when Rep Mike "Birther" Coffman was in full Tea Party-Hardy mode.
These are from 2013 *after* his near-defeat in 2012, so you'd think he had learned something by then.
Coffman is his own man. He's already survived one election in a gerrymandered district.
Thanks for being honest about this cherry picked gotcha list from a Democrat group.
Yeah! The nerve of consolidating the district to include *all* of Aurora!
You must speak to your fellow GOPers — the real experts at Gerrymandering:
Ohio’s 9th district
The Buckeye State lost two House seats, and Republicans moved Democratic Reps. Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich into the same lakeshore district. But the two Democrats don’t exactly live next door to each other — more like 120 miles apart. So Republicans drew a thin district connecting their homes, stretching from west Cleveland to Toledo along the Lake Erie coastline. The district is connected by a bridge that’s only 20 yards wide, as well as by a single beach at one point. When Crane Creek State Park beach is covered during high water, Democrats argue the district is not even contiguous.
What Mike Coffman does to himself, by himself, in the privacy of his own home is no one else's concern . . .
. . . let's try to keep this to just about his (flawed) politics, huh, big guy?
You read more into my gripe than I said. I'm very skeptical about any of these "scorecard" reports, from any side. It's rare that you see one come out that isn't rigged in some way – but I have seen a couple that I think are honest and honestly done. (Those would not, by the way, be those perennial conservative scorecards who somehow managed to rate then-Senator Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate two years running – he wasn't anywhere close to the top by objective standards such as voteview.com or politicalcompass.org.)
To address this particular scorecard, I think it's reasonably well constructed for what it's trying to show. While the Tea Party votes are largely anti-ACA votes which are "generic Republican", there are key votes in there such as the debt ceiling vote, farm bill votes, Hurricane Sandy 'no' votes, and the reign-in-the-NSA vote that are very specifically Tea-flavored.
Coffman isn't the most extreme Tea-flavored person in Congress, but for a swing district Congressman, he's way out on the edge.
PS – Who was Coffman's challenger in 2012? I don't remember, and I'm politically active. That wasn't a challenge.
Romanoff will be a challenge, both as a candidate and in the amount of funding attention the race is going to get.
Miklosi and he didn't start getting serious funding until very late when it became apparent that it was a whole new ball game in reconfigured CD6. He still only lost by less than 2 points.In the old district, Dems routinely lost 2 to 1. Even to a candidate like Tanc who really was far more conservative than the then usual pretty old fashioned moderate R district. Voting R was such an ingrained habit for such a huge majority it really didn't matter who or what kind of R ran. Not anymore.
Dead man's hand . . .
Aces and Eights!!