CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
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%↓
50%↑
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
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
May 16, 2013 11:31 AM UTC
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A little bipartisan angle, Sen. Roberts also worked with Sen. Hodge to strengthen Colorado's Medicaid False Claims Act in SB205 to fight against fraud.
Maybe it's because, while women can be just as tough and just as stupid as the toughest and/or stupidest men, they aren't plagued so much by the whole my dick is bigger than yours thing. I say "so much" instead of not at all because the dick thing isn't strictly physical and literal but figurative as well and, yes, can affect those without actual dicks. As a small and once very scrawny female little kid who took great pride in being able to beat all of my female friends arm wrestling, no matter how much bigger and heavier they were than me, I can attest to the universality of the dick thing, with or without.
To compound our 'Washington' problem, most of the 18% of the women in Congress are held hostage by a white-male majority in the House, effectively precluding them from having any influence at all on national policy.
Women are 51 percent of the nation, but among the ruling members of the House, they make up just 8 percent. Only 63 percent of the United States population is white. But in the House Republican majority, it’s 96 percent white.
As a whole, Congress has never been more diverse, except the House majority. There are 41 black members of the House, but all of them are Democrats. There are 10 Asian-Americans, but all of them are Democrats. There are 34 Latinos, a record — and all but 7 are Democrats. There are 7 openly gay, lesbian or bisexual members, all of them Democrats.
Crap reverse sexism. It was the one party domination of government, not the number of females.
Way to slight those 19 Republican women, too.
As Republican Women, they're slighted enough by the policies and prejudices of their own party.
You are at the very least entertaining. I'm not surprised you missed the point. The Republican House operates like a parallel government, sitting in for some fantasy nation created in talk-radio land. I happen to admire the likes of Ellen Roberts, Jean White and B.J. Nikkel. Great ladies.
ummm…. the Dem party dominated by winning fair elections and the Dem party has long run many more women than yours because our party attracts more women and minorities and supports more of them as candidates in primaries. Then the general public elects them in legitimate elections because, as polling shows, majorities agree with Dem policies more than with R policies. Which is how we got to dominate, not by rolling in with tanks or anything.
Consitutional democracy is
a bitchtough – get used to it.I believe it was Mark Twain who said:
"No generalization is worth a damn, including this one."
Still, after watching the legislature for about four decades, I do think women, as a rule, are more interested in getting results than getting credit. And that, of course, is the key to doing anything worthwhile in a collective body.
I'll go along with Blue Cat on the dick-sizing thing, but maybe the key difference is just being a mom. Moms learn to get things done with precious little credit, the once-a-year Hallmark card notwithstanding. Ironically, the only time Moms do get credit is in the NFL Of course, it was Dad who spent thousands of hours throwing footballs to Jr., only to have him go "Hi Mom" when the camera zeros in on his touchdown dance.
Seriously, stay-at-home dads are learning to get things done without any credit. But parenting, and the culture of responsibity it brings, is still primarily a female thing, if less so than in the past. Yes, we are talking generalities here. Michelle Bachman is a world-class Dickhead who couldn't pour piss from a boot without reading the instructions on the heel. Andrew Romanoff, as Speaker of the House, was more worried about accomplishment than getting credit, to the point that he retained GOP staff members who had treated Democrats fairly — he didn't want to suffer a learning curve as deserving democrats learned the ropes of their patronage jobs.
So, not all men are dicks and not all women are collaborative. But as someone, I believe it may have been Damon Runyan, once said, "The race goeth not always to the strong. But that's the way to bet." In politics, and indeed, most professions where judgment and collaborattionh count, such as law and medicine, performance has improved as women have won full acceptance,
Men, however, still excell at pissing up a rope. Even though they may be occasionally told to go and do it, I strongly advice women not to even try!
The quote was indeed Runyan. It says in Ecclesiastes: "The Race goes not always to the swift but to those who keep on running." Runyan, an avid gambler, paraphrased it this way:
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets."