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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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
April 28, 2015 02:39 PM UTC
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That’s it in a nutshell. Is Bill Cadman an idiot, or does he think we are? Let me answer that for you, Senator; it’s you.
It won’t mean a thing if the media doesn’t report it (and the Democrats don’t make it stick).
I hate to sound like a broken record, but Cory Gardner’s example has really emboldened the state GOP. They now feel okay with legislating aggressively on issues that poll badly with the general public – with the primary purpose of pleasing the own base and keeping them loyal. And then the GOP will count on resetting voter perceptions come election time (no matter what their governing record has really been). With the help of enough dark money and weak reporting by the media … they can win.
Frankly, it is the only real play available to the GOP, but they are going all in.
It’s going to be harder, IMHO, for these State Senators to backtrack from their votes on this bill than it was for Gardner to tap-dance around the issue. They can’t claim ignorance – it was explained multiple times during the debate just what they were voting on…
And how many of their constituents are paying attention? These are very low profile positions and races. All most voters will know about them is what they’ll see on some mailings, maybe an ad or two and the letter that comes with their name at election time. If anything, the Etch-a-Sketch works better the farther down ballot you go.
Not so fast with the doom and gloom Tabby. The simple narrative should be that that Climate Science denying Republicans are a thousand times more interested in your daughters vagina than they are in helping the poor or protecting the planet. The only young people they appeal to are the ones who have been indoctrinated at home. This isn’t a “win” for Republicans. It just shows how out of touch with the rest of society they really are. Coloradans hate “Personhood” scams.
“Not so fast with the doom and gloom Tabby.”
I’m sure it’s a temporary thing, GG. It’s called, “having a “dwyer” moment”. 🙂
she’ll be fine….
Has anyone heard from dwyer? Paging dwyer….
It’s just that I’ve done so much canvassing and phone banking for candidates. Do you have any idea how many people you have to talk to, people with active voting records, before you run across one who has any idea who their state Rep or Sen. is or knows anything about what goes on in the state legislature? I do. And in presidential years you have much higher participation from the lowest of the low info voters.
I saw my own State Rep., who was widely recognized as one of our most successful legislators from day one of his freshman term, known for being one of the primary go to guys for getting across the aisle cooperation on good legislation, the first D elected in my HD in 35 years and the first ever reelected here, defeated by a million and a half $ R ad and mailing effort and replaced with an ignorant R twit (dumb as a post Conti) who honestly didn’t believe me when I told her that taxes had been raised several times on Reagan’s watch. Her entire campaign was about lowering ballooning taxes when, in fact, taxes were lower than ever, much lower than at any time under Reagan. Another thing she flat out couldn’t believe. And it worked well enough for her to win by a small margin over decorated vet and universally well regarded Joe Rice. Since then, she’s been reelected easily in an HD that naturally defaults to R.
My faith in voters knowledge of anything to do with the state legislature is experience, not gloom and doom, based. Not saying we can’t take back enough seats. Just don’t count on it as a natural result of any degree of R idiocy. That’s common as dirt every term so it will take a lot more than that, including big, big, bucks. Just saying hold off on the happy dancing just because so many of our R legislators are clowns. What else is new?
I’ve done a good deal of canvassing too, and it is really scary when you see what is out there as far as people’s knowledge of issues and candidates and perceptions and how they make decisions.
And what media is that? The only print media which publishes daily and has mass circulation is the Post and that’s a POS.
Besides, Cadman’s bill run counter to the Post’s narrative that the GOP doesn’t always stand for personhood. Nothing to report here.
The problem with the Gardner example is that he has proven to be to total dick in office. The next time people have a choice between sane and insincere, they will be reminded that Gardner was also insincere in proclaiming that he was a moderate.
More than 5 long years away and I wouldn’t count on it, never mind how impossible it is to predict now what the political map and atmosphere will look like then.
And Gardner will surely have a large, well-stuffed campaign chest in five years. Which Gardner can use to run endless television ads of him standing up front of trees and windmills in the sunshine, smiling that brilliant smile and proclaiming how America needs “bipartisan solutions.” The right-wingers will guffaw and know Gardner as one of their own. And the squishy low-information voters … ? They will be a toss-up again. Oohh … nice ad! Nice smile! Pretty colors!
Record? What legislative record? That’s old news! Nobody cares about that stuff.