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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
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Governor
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(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
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Sec. of State
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(D) George Stern
(D) A. Gonzalez
(R) Sheri Davis
40%
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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%
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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%
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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
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State House Majority
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January 07, 2016 01:20 PM UTC
11 Comments
When everyone is a candidate for Senate, is anyone a candidate for Senate?
I'm waiting to see a campaign flyer from Thurston showing him with a giant check from TransCanada, a dozen awards from the NSA for "Contributions to the Destruction of Privacy in America," and pissing oil onto a pile of DPS students breaking their piggy banks to get change to pay DPS debts, with the caption "Living Large in DC, Bitches!"
I'd still expect him to win over these clowns by 10 points.
More likely to see a campaign flier showing him taking exactly the same stands as your beloved (or at least far more acceptable) and nearly identical on the issues Obama.
Feel free to criticize what I say, as its certainly worthy of it, but FFS stop imputing a "love of Obama" to me. I've repeatedly told you that I disagree with the president on every stance he's taken that I think Bennet is wrong on. If Obama ran for president today, his support for the TPP, for the destruction of privacy, his failure to even put a single payer system on the table, his continued use of assassination as a political tool, and other stances would prevent me from voting for him.
Ready for Hillary?
Exactly which table was Obama supposed to bring single payer option to? The table of Congressional Republicans who just voted to repeal the “market based” solution known as ACA? Very realistic…
It's painful to me on an almost daily basis. She's stated some positions that I hope are sincere, even if I don't think they're sufficient. I'm about 60% willing to give her a chance. To be honest, I'm also excited to have a female president and think that's pretty powerful.
If the Snowden revelations about the drone program, and the extent of illegal spying being done had come out before Obama's second term, I would have sat that one out, too.
At the time both the Senate and House held Democratic majorities. I think it unlikely that those would have held to implement a single payer system, but I think the bill was worth bringing forward for debate and a vote. I don't recall that happening. I think some fights are important to have, even if you lose, so that people can become informed as a result of the discussion.
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program.” (applause) “I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”
– Barack Obama, 2003
Frank, I agree with SCat that single payer should have been on the table. Not because it had a snowball's chance in hell but because rule one of bargaining 101 is that both sides ask for more than they know they have any chance of getting and work inward from there.
Not having single payer on the table automatically made any kind of public option the extreme and therefore throw away position. I still believe mandate without public option is essentially serving us to the greedy, amoral, private insurers on a silver platter. Not only did public option get thrown away before any bargaining began (though Pelosi got it in the House) but Team Obama, deluded into their kumbaya cham offensive to get just a few Rs on their side, offered Rs about 90% of what they wanted as a starting bargaining position and then gave more. Who does that?
And it didn't win them a single R because as they had already vowed before Obama was even inaugurated, they weren't going to give him any level of victory. Period. When push came to shove every R, including the most moderate, toed the line.
So from the very beginning Dems felt thrown under the bus, relations between him and his Dem congress deteriorated as he continually tried uselessly to charm Rs and blamed extremists on both sides for the gridlock when Dems were in reality offering all kinds of compromise and Rs were 100% responsible for said gridlock. Relations with those who could have been strong allies got chillier and chillier so he couldn't even rally his own side. No wonder 2010 was such a disaster.
It took Obama a good six years to finally learn what he should have learned after his first 6 weeks. The one thing SCat and I can agree on is not being charter members of the Obama Worshippers Fan Club. Where we differ is that I don't think Bennet's any worse than Obama and I think both of them are much to be preferred over any R.
At least S-cat is consistent I criticizing both Obama and Thurston unlike some who can trash one and love the other.
Keyser is a placeholder. As long as Democrats don't eat their own this year, this race is not a top tier like 2010 was.
Neville is shorter than Cory Gardner? How is this possible?
Gardner got him some new Rubio boots???