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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%
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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
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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
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State House Majority
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April 03, 2017 10:10 AM UTC
39 Comments
Nobody gives a crap about Bennet's vote. The real news is the Obama spying.
But prunie, you just said the real news was that obama is black. Not very good at your game today, are you?
Thanks for playing along "V". We have to keep the Obama corruption as the top thread. Pols will come up with any boring thread to keep the Obama spying from being listed first.
You mean our intelligence community, spying on our enemies, who just happened to be talking to Trump and his team?
That spying?
But that thing about Obama being black. That can't be true, can it? Why that would change everything.
Good luck with your attempt at rhetorically lynching Rice, shithead:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/surveillance-experts-swat-down-susan-rice-unmasking-hysteria
I knew I'd regret my vote for Bennet. Thank God I never contributed to his campaign.
This is going to cost Bennet Zapp 's support next election cycle.
Well, at a minimum, zappy will curb his enthusiasm.
if these effing Democrats would actually fight for some key principles and quit waiting for the Moderate/Unicorn vote to appear (as CPols and almost every other Establishment Consultant predicts) then Colorado actually could turn blue for a generation.
Instead he twiddles his thumbs and wets his pants, and is never around when any key progressive issue is addressed.
And after all the blocks you walked for him and the calls you made… uhh, wait, that was me.
I've done plenty of that stuff for plenty of candidates. They all were far more deserving of my support than this guy and they were all unabashed Democrats.
This guy was a cynical pick by Ritter in '08, for which I'll never forgive the governor. Bennet surely thought he could play it safe (can't we all be bipartisan?), earn easy money (a cool $Million per term), and be in the senate for life with little worry.
Turns out he's going to have to earn it and fight for something to keep it.
I'll be waiting………………..
And waiting and waiting and waiting. His term isn't up until 2020, even assuming he isn't president warrens veep in 2020, as someone suggested here the other day.
What's a "key progressive issue?" Funny that those who don't want Gorsuch confirmed have no other option other than to leave the seat open for four years.
Bennet is very good on public lands and other conservation/environmental issues. Just because he dares to not toe the radical far left line is no big deal for me.
I've done plenty of that stuff for plenty of candidates.
But did any of them win?
Well, Wendell Willkie came close
I was thinking that Zapp's Hall of Fame included Gene Nichols, Gil Romero, and Mike Miles.
Miles was a good guy and my first pick in that primary.
IMO this is a huge mistake. Bennet should pay a price for refusing the filibuster alone.
But if he votes to confirm Gorsuch, he must be primaried in 2022. It is too great a violation.
He is safe for the next six years. Dems. already have the votes to filibuster so he doesn't have to burn any bridges with local groups over it yet. Let him keep his powder dry until the actual vote takes place.
Disappointing. I'm sure those of us in Centennial who worked hard for Senator Bennet starting in 2010 and again in 2016 (and had 161 participants at an Indivisible meeting before the Inauguration) will be equally disappointed.
Six years is a long time, but we have long memories…..
There are also a raft of issues where Bennet was very clearly a better choice than Daryl Glenn. Hope you have more than a selective long term memory.
That's irrelevant to the purity caucus.
I have a long memory also and will continue to support Bennet both with my vote, as well as financially, unless my party can come up with a common sense conservative superstar. And, no, I don't mean Tim Neville or Jerry Sonnenberg.
Scuttlebutt is that Neville is going to give up his senate seat to run for governor. A Colorado Brownback and I'm not talking about trout.
Eeww! Really G.G.? I don't think he's got much of a shot anywhere but Frackistan, And aren't the R's stacking up a pretty crowded primary? What's he got to sell to differentiate himself from the rest of the pack?
Didn't we see this play out last year when he couldn't even get on the statewide ballot? He has a limited shelf life.
In conversations with vague folks with forgotten names his analysis of his failure last year is that he didn't devote enough time to running so he didn't raise money or raise his profile. To change his fortunes he is going to resign from the Senate and dedicate himself full time to sucking up to every gun nut who believes that the Newtown shooting was staged for political benefit. We'll see if he gives up a safe reelection bid for the risk of more power (no public servant for this guy) but also the possibility that he gets nothing.
Almost makes me regret giving up my contrarian Republican registration.
But once we quit doing precinct elections (I was R my wife was D, so we could work the same precinct) I had no reason to keep it. Now I wish I could throw in my nickle’s-worth on that primary.
I can remember in the waning days of summer how I was repeatedly admonished to vote for Democrats because:
THE SUPREME COURT!!!!
Well, despite vomiting a little, I had their back and voted for them. It's too bad they won't return the favor.
I hate to tell you this Jim. The Republicans won the presidency and the Senate. Notwithstanding Colorado, where we really did appreciate the help of you and others of the left, that means Republicans will get away with stealing Garland's seat. Good to see you posting again, btw.
I've got a fin that Bennet votes for Gorsuch once the filibuster is defeated.
I won't take that bet. We both know what a weasel he is.
That would fit Bennet's M.O. Take a "principled stand" that makes no difference, when it's too-little-too-late. Remember his 2009 "I'll vote for health care reform even if it costs me my seat" rhetoric?
Remember when he strongly endorsed a public option health plan in 2010? Hell, he was going to save the public option. He said so.
But he was one of the first to cave when single payer was negotiated away before negotiations on the ACA had even begun. And he was definitely about cutting Medicare, not expanding it to be "Medicare for all" in 2010 – 2011.
Fast forward to 2016, when Bennet's campaign spokesman Zucker said, "Michael does not think that single payer is the right approach to solving our health care problems"
If you try to track Michael Bennet on the issues of health care, you'll get whiplash. That's what happens when your senator is a weathervane.
So I expect very little from Senator Michael Bennet in terms of a principled stand…on anything. It totally depends on his donors and his reading of the political odds.
Remember that time….(quoting Brietbart just for you, PeePee)
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