CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
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State House Majority
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February 19, 2010 01:33 AM UTC
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Good point Pols, politics are a local phenomenon in Colorado due to the large percentage of independents.
With respect to Massachusetts, they have a health care plan and could care less about a national plan. Also, the candidate sucked!
But more importantly, Democrats that run for office in the 1st quarter are going to struggle due to the crappy economy and the fallout of attempt at health care reform. By November things are going to look much better across the board and Democrats will get out of the rut that they’re currently in.
This was a terrible editorial. Not in sync with general political thought and they are blowing everything out of proportion, including the failure to take into account precedent for reconciliation.
But all that aside, it’s really dangerous to start saying that policy decisions should be based on what happens in a particular election somewhere else.
Michael Bennet and Mark Udall are beholden to COLORADO voters. They can, and should, ignore any “message” sent by Massachusetts voters, because THEY AREN’T SENATORS FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
You’d hope that the Denver Post would keep the interests of the state at heart as well. After all, they are a CO rag.
actually left a comment on a GJ Sentinel thread (about Bennet’s position) that the ‘voters have spoken’ and were against “Obama’s” health care plan. It’s mind-boggling. The people have not spoken, not generally on this issue, nor specifically in elections in Colorado.
Last time that happened the GOP do nothing party got schooled.
Time to send them to the principal’s office.
for Republicans to be reminded that during the presidential election, voters all across the country including CO wanted change and voted for Obama’s policy platform. The discontent we’re seeing today is leftover from the Great Recession which had nothing to do with Obama or Bennet’s policies. People who this otherwise are near term thinkers. They are doing exactly what they promised they would do during the election.
For the ADHD Dem’s here, you need to realize that it’s only been a year and that we just came from the brink of societal disaster.
Stand in the way of its editorial policy.
Fuck, they’ll just send Gary Harmon out there to invent his own facts.
I thought it was a dumb editorial too.
And Denver Post, well, wrong again….
When Bill Singleton writes the editorials.
This was one of those times.
Maybe he heard a rumor that someone in a union likes reconciliation and rushed to the ramparts.
Well done and well said.
What IS the message that voters sent in Massachusetts? Jury’s still out on that. Perhaps it’s nothing more meaningful than the majority of voters like someone who posed nude years ago for a magazine centerfold.
According to the Tea Party and R-wingers it was them, according to the R political strategists it was health care, according to Palin it was Obama, according to AR it was Bennet that influenced the Massachusetts election.
No black guy is going to buy off the cops with a beer.
I do not believe politicians should be poll-driven. In this case, however, the national polls indicate strong antipathy towards the health care legislation Bennett is championing. The normally Obama friendly NBC/WSJ poll shows 46% against and 31% for. (1)
The polls are national but there is no reason to think that Colorado is an outlier and that the electorate supports of the legislation.
Rasmussen shows a trend towards Norton as people start paying attention to the coming election. Even the Daily Kos/R2000 poll only gives Bennett a point over Norton – a statistically insignificant result. (2)
Obama recognizes that health care has to give way to jobs: “That is why jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010, and that’s why I’m calling for a new jobs bill tonight.” (3)
Energy spent on the current health care bill is energy not spent on jobs and the economy. I think that will hurt Bennett going forward.
(1) Obama and Democrats’ Health Care Plan, Real Clear Politics, viewed on 2/18/2010 17:38 MT http://www.realclearpolitics.c…
(2) 2010 Colorado Senate Race, Real Clear Politics, viewed on 2/18/2010 17:38 MT http://www.realclearpolitics.c…
(3) Ed Henry, After pleading his case, where does Obama go now? CNN, January 28, 2010 15:27 EST http://bit.ly/bswqYB
I don’t think Bennett’s reconciliation strategy will fly with Independents. The core message is and will be, it’s the economy stupid, unless a terrorist attack were to occur.
The concept behind Pols argument is that the your WSJ/NBC (By the way, if a poll is sponsored by WSJ it will naturally be R slanted. Not sure what to make of the mix NBC/WSJ) shouldn’t matter to a Colorado Senator. I you had a CO poll it would be a different story altogether. Even then, unless they asked if people would want a choice in insurance companies they would overwhelmingly vote in favor.
Colorado wants health reform with public option.
http://www.dailykos.com/statep…
And Senator Bennet is one of those crazy Senators who thinks the Senate can walk and chew gum at the same time. At least sometimes. Ie- they can do more than one thing at a time.
That the worst possible health-care results for Dems is if in November they still haven’t passed anything. It makes them look incapable of governing.
hence the whole waterloo thing.
It’s also why I tihnk it’s such a big deal that Romanoff said he would have voted against the Senate bill
especially in this regard. Great Observation Pols! The Post is becoming a rag and the editors do not seem to care one bit about it.
To Imply Massachusetts spoke for Colorado is indeed stupid.
My only suggestion is that instead of the POSt Editors applying to the Boston Globe, (the “Liberal” paper there) Perhaps the Boston Harald would be a better fit for their propagandist talents.
clearly shows that people in Denver are no longer Democratic.
Or put another way, that people in Denver elected DeGette shows that people in the Springs are no longer rabidly crazy conservatives.
The people of Telluride have spoken! Art Goodtimes is the new King of the World!
Of course, even the Denver Post editorial board listens to talk radio and Boyles/Bill Bennet/Rosen/Brown/fill in the blank/gallagher/hannity/caldera/beck/caplis *caplis light/ etc. have been saving for five weeks that the voters have spoken in MA and bennet is ignoring the “Voice of the People.”
Repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it. I think that was Goebbels…
Coakley ran the worst state-wide campaign I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been involved with some pretty awful campaigns. What happened out here in MA was not about Obama or health care, it was about a candidate who thought she didn’t have to work to win.
…I know plenty of Coloradans who don’t want Congress to start over with health care reform. Colorado’s horrific budget crisis could use an influx of federal money and medical jobs from a health care bill.