President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(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
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
50%
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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
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48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
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November 04, 2015 11:56 AM UTC
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It is hard to see how the Denver Post's editorial moved the needle at all on this one. Would it have been 75% in favor of the recall but for the Post's opposition? If their endorsements are now demonstrably meaningless, does that mean I can't complain about how wrong they are? (They clearly were off base with Gardner.)
Is it possible that in this day and age of information (and opinion) overload, that people protesting in the streets, going door to door, and talking to their neighbors are still an effective political strategies?
As long as the community gives them cred, they have cred.
It even got mentioned in the scared New York Times today! The newspaper of record.
The Right has had this strategy – take over school boards and institute your world view via the classroom, for many years. From Mother Jones in 1994:
Which kids are most likely to be home schooled? Correct.
But running for a school board seat is beneath someone like Caldara, a professional liar of a much higher order. Those who can and do certainly have the ideology, but they've been proven over and over to lack the social and political and organizational skills to fully implement their plan. A plan they must deny having.
This strategy was a major failure in Co Springs D-11 in the early 2000's and followed nearly the same script. The Indy ran a rare editorial at the time:
The meltdown was spectacular. And the Rich Guy/Privatize/Radical Conservative slate lost again this year in another attempt to take over that same district:
Where'd the "reformers" come from?
Maybe the press can't figure it out. But Democrats had better.
The media is astounded that voters want children, all children, to be educated and literate?? And, they wants schools to do the educating??
As that sage, Gomer Pyle, used to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise assholes"!!
I have to take issue that the local media was "confounded" by the news. I reported in September that Americans for Prosperity folks were girding themselves for a loss, which they noted before an audience that included Williams and Witt.
Even the story I did five days ago pointed out that despite likely low voter turnout (true) the recall supporters were likely to win this one because they had everything on their side.
Dead guvs, it would be nice if you wouldn't lump us all together. Some of us saw this coming.
I think they meant big media. The Post. The TV stations.
You do great work. They're not talking about your stories though.
By your definition, Pols, every photo taken by a union member of a child holding a recall sign is exploitation too. Keep that in mind.
This was an ugly recall election. I congratulate the teacher's union on your victory. We all want good schools for our kids, it's just a question of how we get there. I hope none of the reforms the new board repeals are helping students achieve. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, and admit that some good has been done by the reformers.
Not welcome here until you apologize for accusing us falsely of mocking the disabled.
Thanks, but most of the recall activists were parents and grandparents in Jeffco, not necessarily teachers at all. Certainly the JCEA contributed $50 K seed money, but the recall was funded by a big pool of contributors. To set your fears to rest, the new board members really will put students first – school boards are supposed to be nonpartisan, and everyone really wants to get back to that basis now that the Teapublicans are on their way out.
The Moldy view of elections: If the vote is in my favor than it is a huge victory for Democracy and even my enemies must submit to all the ramifications of the vote.. If the vote is against me then it is the sign of the loss of FREEDOM and the freedom taking,gun grabbing, baby brain selling victors are scum of the earth that I can not respect or comply with because FREEDOM.
You're no patriot Moldy and what you call FREEDOM means slavery for everyone else so no thanks. Your blaming the unions on brainwashing all those Republicans in Jefferson County sure sounds like you don't want the recalled three to take any responsibility for the loss of trust by their constituents in their ability to hire and plan for a robust education system. How is that partisan hacks like you are so proud of how completely you take personal responsibility of your actions until it's time to blame someone else for your failures? Buck up Moldy. The odds are in your favor that you are going to be playing the blame game a lot in the near future.
No, moddy, the "reformers" did not accomplish ANYTHING positive except teaching students, teachers and parents to mobilize
Oh, I don't know, Gray. That's a pretty important lesson. As I said, yesterday, the Board didn't want the kids to learn about civil disobedience from a textbook, but they unwittingly gave them an object lesson in same.
The meme of the elections across the country is it is a big Republican (conservative) win (even if the Dems did not bother to vote).
One thought I have is that JeffCo is not DougCo. Very different demographics. 2009 when I was campaigning down there I could easily tell the voters were ready to accept the Republican education line. Going deeper into DougCo than the Arapahahoe-Douglas border it became obvious that the new suburbs held people who were very Republican and wanting something other than public schools.
JeffCo has been around a long time, with few new large neighborhoods. The people do not want a conservative, religious and information free school system. The population is diverse as opposed to a lot of upper middle class white folk.
Now comes the hard part. Getting Dems into the majority.
Even DougCo voted against their "reform" board members this time too. Not as dramatic as there was no recall and the entire board wasn’t replaced as in JeffCo but the ones that were up for re-election lost. We conservatives will run your schools more efficiently instead of wasting your money sounds good but apparently after a while people with kids in public school realize that having a school board that considers your kids' teachers the enemy and really doesn't even support public education kind of sucks
My father was a School Administrator in Colorado from 1954 until the mid 1980's. he also happened to be one of the teachers that studied how to improve on education, and actually helped design most of the currently in use "NEW" education, including "CORE". he did so in the 1930's at the Horace Mann Lincoln School of Progressive Education, a project school under Columbia University. some otf the schools he was an administrator included Aspen, Broomfield, when it was part of the Boulder Schools, Alamosa, Telluride, Seibert, Elbert, La Jara, and Egnar schools to name a few. EVERY school he was in developed many advanced students, and had scores that averaged well above the norm, when he left. All the schools he was with, also found themselves far better off financially, simply because he understood how to use the state and federal grant programs for the best education the kids could get. multiple districts he was asked by the Colorado Department of Ed to take over because they were about to be closed due to deep debt, and low student scores.one as an example was Moffat schools in the San Luis Valley where he realized that the district was not getting taxes it was owed because a large land development for the wealthy, was being built within the school districts boundaries, and the county hadn't bothered to tax them. what is wrong with schools today is not the students, it is admins that are too involved in their titles (PHD etc) to actually research all the title PROGRAMS that can bring in huge financial benefit to a district, allowing them to pay the wages TALENTED teachers deserve and EXPECT to be paid. with good teachers, and there are a huge majority of them in Colorado, and the funds to support EDUCATION, including in the arts and humanities kids get excited to learn because a responsive and interesting program can be developed by truly creative teachers. School boards have much to much decision power in education today. their job is to hire the best administrators, and the the PROFESSIONALS do the educating. few school board members have come from the ranks of teaching, and even fewer have come from talented school administrators. yet they seem to believe they have the knowledge and skills to dictate curriculum and hire teachers. this is sad, and it is what has destroyed the strength of education in out country, not just Colorado. i have intentionally used my real name in my id, those that were in Education from 1954 to 1990 may even have either heard about George, or actually knew him, many of the rest of you may even have been taught in schools he affected. it is tome schools reverted to what they used to be, NON POLITICAL BASES OF EDUCATION, solely set up and operated to provide the best education possible for the students, and nothing about political agenda's which, like faith have no place in public education. morals, yes, but doctrines not at all!!!