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%
April 03, 2016 09:01 PM UTC
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Why on earth would residents of HD 15 be reluctant to vote for this gentleman? Your description makes him sound like the perfect representative for this constituency.
Republican primary voters are against same sex marriage, and for "religious accommodations" to allow discrimination by businesses, by 30 point margins according to this 2015 Quinnipiac poll of 1200 Colorado voters.
So you're right, MM, it's a safe position to take in R-controlled El Paso County. But it also puts a lid on any Republican voters ambitions for statewide or national office, as Colorado voters in general approve of same sex marriage rights by those same wide margins (~60 to 30 or higher), according to the same Q poll.
Even in El Paso County HD15, half of registered voters are unaffiliated, according to the Secretary of State's latest registration statistics. If we went to open primaries where these folks could help select the party nominee, I'm guessing that results might be different.
Even in State Senate district 12, where Chaps wants to replace Cadman, there is a much higher proportion of Democrats and Unaffiliated,competitive with Republicans.
The point is that these folks can get elected from EPCO in GOP primaries, but they are not competitive anywhere else in the state.
It's true that, if you want to find freakishly nut-job politicians, all you need to do is look in state legislatures. The appalling thing is that they do represent their constituencies. Those unaffiliated and Democratic voters aren't enough to elect someone else.
However, these nut-jobs can, and often are, elected to national office. Ken Buck, Con-Man Cory and, not Colorado's fault, Louie Gohmert, to name a few.
Voters aren't all that consistent. Pretty much all GOP pols oppose same sex marriage, choice, and other things the majority of Colorado voters support. That has by no means stopped all Rs from winning statewide. While it's pretty impossible to win statewide in Colordo while being viewed as an extremist on either the right or the left (there will never be a Senator or Governor Klingenschmitt), simply opposing positions that poll well or supporting positions that don't do not necessarily make statewide election here impossible. If they did we wouldn't have our present crop of Rs holding statewide office. All the ones who hold those offices now are pretty much on the same page…. just present as less wacko to average voters.
Screw open primaries. Bernie Sanders is only in the race because he is getting Republican and independent votes. I like the closed primaries where Democrats can choose their own candidates, just like Republicans. This is a huge Democratic advantage in Colorado.
In the general agreement that Colorado needs to do Presidential primaries instead of caucuses, does anyone know if there is sentiment for "open" primaries? And will there be a unified primary for Presidential and all other offices?
See my comment above. I'm not in favor of open primaries. I am in favor of getting rid of caucuses, but that got nixed by voters a number of years ago, so no legislator will have the guts to take this issue on and I can't imagine what special interest group cares. The Republican ones all agree with this BS and the Dems know that it's easier to beat the Reps when they nominate nuts like this.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
They’re just replacing one homophobic curmudgeon with a younger telegenic homophobe.
Shouldn't it be: EPCo and not EPCO?
That's how JeffCo does it.
This seems like an appropriate article to compliment this thread…
Christian ‘prophet’ loses his buttocks to a hungry lion while trying to prove God would save him
And wasn't there some fundy a year or two ago who was playing with a poisonous snake during a revival service when things went sideways? Guess he wasn't pure enough….