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%
December 15, 2014 09:15 AM UTC
13 Comments
Come on, press, do your jobs. This is slimy as fuck and it deserves coverage.
I'm sorry, pottymouth, what laws were broken again?
So if Dems were pulling theses stunts to avoid elections and just recycle freely and some Rs complained about it you're response would be exactly the same. Here I am not holding my breath for a relevant reply.
Bingo. Silly GOP hypocrites…
Good thing I didn't hold my breath.
Just can't accept the the voters will. ColoradoPols has been trying to push this non-issue for the past four months. They even got an editorial in the paper which shall not be named. The result, Faye Griffin got more votes than any other candidate in Jefferson County who was opposed by a member of the opposite party. (And by the way, Kaufman got more votes than anyone, though he was unopposed and Sheriff candidate Schrader got the second most being opposed only by a libertarian). You guys are just spitting in the wind. Jeffco voters know what they are doing and who they like. They like Faye Griffin, a lot and they don't give a darn about your "faux" issue. Finally, it's not like Democrats haven't filled vacancies in this manner. Talk to me about how the Dems avoided a recall by having one member resign to be replaced by someone else who couldn't be recalled and then lost the 2014 election. Talk about non-sense. The voters see right through you. That's part of the reason that the Dems lost two Senate seats and the Senate majority in Colorado this year. Forget this penny-ante stuff, it doesn't work. Focus on the real issues and frankly get tough and nasty. Don't believe the crap about being above going negative, because, frankly, it doesn't work – See Senators Waters, Walters, Woods or whatever the hell her name is and Neville.
Weird how such a "non-issue" has gotten so much attention, (including the Denver Post).
It's an issue for those on the inside or with an interest in the insider stuff. As such perfectly legit for discussion on this blog. You can probably also fit the number of those who plow through the Post's political news when it's not even election time in a phone booth, too but ColPol participants would certainly be stuffed into it. That's what we're here for, right?
I do agree that focusing on this kind of thing does Dems absolutely no good since you could fit into a phone booth the number of voters who are even vaguely aware of such inside inside inside baseball stuff. Let's worry about US House and Senate races, the lowest level that registers at all with your average voter and especially with those who will will come out in 2016 only because it's a presidential year. Most voters have no idea who fills theses offices or who represents them in the state legislature. Not a clue in the world.
On the other hand, Craig, this is a site for those who do follow this kind of thing so of course it will be discussed. Everything we discuss doesn't have to be vital to electoral politics. Especially between elections. It's a political junkie blog not a Democratic party campaign site. Why shouldn't we indulge in inside baseball discussion on political discussion blog? Pretty sure most of us know perfectly well that nobody cares about this stuff but the tuned in few but that's us so please chill.
Because, Blue Cat, this kind of discussion only encourages the rampant paranoia among Jeffco Democrats which continues to really, really hurt the Democrats chances of controlling the courthouse. And because, the person who keeps writing this crapola is a Jeffco Dem himself. And because, the person who writes this crapola knows nothing about what's really going on in the Republican Party with respect to these offices, something I'll try to explain when the dust settles on all these movements.
And PS. Do you really have no idea what's driving this? It has nothing to do with Democrats at all. Think about it or quit posting as if you know anything at all about Republican politics in Jeffco and sign off as anything other than the Jeffco Dems griping room.
See above. What's wrong with griping as long as we don't delude ourselves about the impact?
See above. And quit griping. It's the law and Dems use it to, though not as successfully. All you want to do is gripe. What about doing something about it. If Dems really wanted to do something about this horrible thing, then they had a number of years where they controlled the whole statehouse, but didn't do anything. It's the hypocricy that kills me. It's OK for a Senate seat in Jeffco, but not OK for the Courthouse. Nonsense. How about getting off your asses and doing something about it rather than just griping????????