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%
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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
52%↑
48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 22, 2016 02:01 PM UTC
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The AP’s Kristen Wyatt has 
Great story, you say, not the least bit biased.
True journalism would require the use of words like "allegedly" or "so called." When you use one side's language to describe contested terms you're tilting the playing field. A fetus is no more an unborn child than an egg is raw chicken.
They do use "they say", and some of the other bits are direct quotes from Neville.
Gardner's "forceful" case that Republicans are no threat to abortion had very little to do with Udall's loss to him. Everyone on both sides knows where the GOP stands on the issue. I don't think anyone was fooled. It simply wasn't the number one issue for most Colorado voters. It certainly wasn't number one for most of the voters I canvassed.
Making more moderate noises didn't hurt him with anti-choicers who no doubt took it as a wink, wink, rightly assuming the GOP candidate was on the same page with them and it certainly didn't fool pro-choicers.
He did a better job of giving purple Colorado low info voters the idea that the economic issues most important to them were most important to him and Udall didn't. End of story. Hate to sound like a broken record but you're pretty broken record on this yourself, ColPols!
Once again, I never talked to a single voter who told me they were voting for Gardner because they were reassured he posed no threat to abortion. I did talk to moderate Dem and indie women who were not voting for Udall because they personally oppose abortion for themselves and their daughters and, while they supported choice they were not bothered by the idea of certain limits and felt Udall was, in their words, a pro-abortion extremist who didn't share their values or main concerns about jobs and the economy, an idea they got from his ad campaign. Whether or not Gardner was as moderate on abortion as he claimed was simply not enough of a concern to them to affect their choice. Period.
BC is absolutely right.
No, she is absolutely wrong and it baffles me. She makes the case better than Gardner's own shills that abortion doesn't matter. I don't get it but I'm not going to argue with her anymore. Better for Pols to take it to the voters who need persuading, and that's not BC.
Actually you're wrong, JeffcoBlue, in implying that abortion "doesn't matter." Rights tend to disappear; like the right to choose & freedom of conscience; when citizens are not vigilant.
Udall's handlers from outside Colorado ran an inept campaign. Udall never got close, except maybe in the two weeks prior to election, to running on his excellent wilderness and environmental record. In his ads, he was generally scowling while Gardner was usually smiling. Bennett won't make the same mistakes and if Tim Neville is the Republican nominee, he is much more of an extremist authoritarian than Gardner was and is.
And Timmy has a nice scowl, too!
Apparently you don't read my posts, JB. Never have I said abortion doesn't matter. I've said, and been proved right by the results of the last elecrion, that it isn't the number one concern for most Colorado voters. If it was, Udall would have won.
I have conveyed the attitiudes expressed to me by actual Colorado voters the majority of whom voted for Gardner, not because they thought he was pro-choice but because other issues mattered more to them.
I don't agree that these voters made the best decision. It certainly isn't a decision I would have made. But the deciding voters in the low info middle in purple Colorado don't pay much attention to or follow "politics". It's up to the campaigns to create appeal for their candidates among those voters.
Harping on abortion rights as if that's the one and only vital issue doesn't work on those voters because it isn't the issue most important to them, much less the only issue important to them. You might not want to hear this but plenty of folks in the middle, including many moderate Dem women, have very ambivalent feelings on the subject and are not at all opposed to some limits. Once again please note I'm passing on opinions I've discovered in canvassing, not expressing my own. I'm not a low info ambivalent moderate Dem woman but my neck of the woods is loaded with them.
In any case, Bennet will run a smart campaign. He will also be fortunate in his opponent, whichever clown car occupant that turns out to be, and he will not suffer Udall's fate. If you view this expression of my observations as someone who has canvassed the south 'burbs ( including Littleton, Centennial, Englewood, Cherry Hills) for Dems in every election of the past decade as shilling for anti-choice Rs that's, of course, your opinion and you're entitled to it, ridiculous as it may be.
Young women in my conservative town hold much more nuanced positions on abortion than one might think. Several of them chose the topic of abortion for a persuasive speech assignment, and while two of them flatly say that "abortion is murder," they also say that it should be a choice legally available, especially in the cases of rape and incest.
Some young men chose to weigh in on the topics of stem cell and cloning research. They're for it, within limits. No "build a baby" shops.
These teens are not judgmental -they all know young women who are raising children, staying in high school, not being shamed into disappearing. At the same time, high school is hard enough without raising a baby before graduation. And the other piece is that birth control is now available. No thanks to Cory Gardner, but Plan B medical pregnancy prevention is available to young women who access their friendly neighborhood women's health clinic , teen clinic, or Planned Parenthood office. But if they just want to walk in to Walmart or Walgreens, the pharmacist could refuse to sell emergency contraception to them.
Colorado is not one of the states which allows young women to buy Plan B emergency contraception over the counter or from a pharmacist. They can buy it online, but then there's the shipping delay, which can make it ineffective. And Colorado adopted laws which allow pharmacists to refuse to fill valid prescriptions because of "conscience objections". It actually looks as though we have moved backward on this issue. The Sex, etc site for teens, said in 2011 that teens could buy emergency contraception without a prescription in Colorado. Either they were mistaken, or we have lost ground.
Dr. Daft, care to weigh in? What's the law in Colorado? Am I right that young women in Colorado are losing ground on access to birth control?