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%
July 29, 2009 02:06 AM UTC
21 Comments
I haven’t seen anything on this rally, so I have two questions for anyone who was there.
1. Does this group (Caldera, Crank, etc.) agree there is a healthcare issue and simply disagree with the current proposed solution (which is their right)?
2. If they think there is an issue, did they offer any solutions during their rally that would provide reasonable, affordable coverage for the vast majority of the citizens?
Tort reform and portable insurance.
The Independence Institute is not a think tank, it is a propaganda shop, a Libertarian talking-point factory. As Libertarians, they are against government, period. If they are taking their protest to the streets, then it is a sign of weakness, that they can’t get their message out through media channels, and that they are actually worried about the reform momentum the Democratic Party is starting to generate.
I posted here yesterday to encourage people to pay attention to this rally. It is ideologically incoherent that the Independence Institute and American’s for Prosperity would be sponsoring an anti-healthcare reform rally, without going the full monty demanding the end of medicare. I was kind of hoping for some guerilla theater, like a bunch of anti Medicare signs to clarify that these are right wing, libertarian anarchists.
Who is “Americans for Prosperity”?
This is part of the Tea Party astroturf network, well funded through right-wing channels. Open Left has some video of the Americans for Prosperity packing a town hall meeting in St Louis sponsored by Senator McCaskill.
And Now you have Cholera:
I cheer your video.
It’s too bad that many nations are doing better than us in so many ways. Our decline has matched the rise of Republican/Libertarian ideologues taking hold of Congress and the presidency.
“We’re Number One! We’re Number One!”
No, we aren’t. OK, maybe military expenditures.
And everything to do with opposing the President and the Congressional majority.
Caldara is now officially a joke.
I’d bet a number of the several hundred who turned up are on Medicare. They see no contradiction.
Sad.
no public option for you. If you like your health care the way it is, then guess what? Nobody is going to pry it from your cold, dead hands.
(too far???)
How many of them are on Medicare?
But considering the righties have been shouting from the mountaintops that this new health care plan will kill elderly people – sick or not – I wonder what portion of the crowd would not have shown up if they knew their Medicare was safe.
The obvious hypocrisy of righties continues to boggle me although it shouldn’t by now.
I often wonder how many the press means when they say that. Is it 300? Is it 1200?
Estimating the turnout at today’s rally:
KCNC Channel 4 Denver: “several hundred”
Denver Post: “hundreds,” “a few hundred people”
Denver Business Journal: “Several hundred people”
Can’t any of you reporters take a stab?
The Denver Post reporter doesn’t even ask the rally organizers how many attended, like the Post did when Michael Moore appeared at the Capitol. The Post said then that “organizers estimated [the crowd] at 2,000” when Moore appeared. OK, cut the organizers’ estimate in half and you get a 1,000. (Or double the amount the police say were in attendance, as a rule). More people probably turned out to hear Moore promote universal health care than they did to protest it today.
Don’t get me wrong. That’s not a bad turnout from the photo. But it’s no 4/20 rally…
Probably 150 when the cropping & blocking by posters/flags taken into account. 150+ is “hundreds” if you round to 200 🙂
While this was happening. Several hundred is a gross overexageration. 200 is pushing it.
I’m yet again confused by this jargon. If these boys are so pro-free market, they why would they be against competition?
It is time to IMMEDIATELY dismantle medicare, medicade and social security.
Do you think if Caldera and Crank advocated that they would have had a single blue-hair at their event?
Caldera gets 15 hours of radio time a week which the government gives him and he/Independence Institute do not have to pay for that time. That is not fair. That is not free market, that is government monopoly of the 50,000 watt “blow torch of the Rockies.” Only the government in charge of granting that monopoly was controlled by the same party which lost last year, totally. However, broadcast licenses do not expire when the party which granted them loses.
The Democrats won both houses of Congress and the Presidency; in Colorado, Democrats won the governor’s office and the state legislature. All the republicans have left is control of the public radio airwaves…..and that is all they need. …..I predict the repubs will defeat health care reform and win big in 2010…….
radio is setting the agenda and mobilizing the base….it is brilliant and the dems think they are “too smart” to care about talk radio……
Just look at the Air America and NovaM fiascoes. Gross mismanagement (often by the same people in both), internal politics, and often, just outright stupidity.
Couple all that with Dems/Libs being a herd of cats, and it’s apparently doomed for failure.
OTOH, cons love to be part of a group of like thinkers and told what to think, so conservative talk radio has a hug audience. Goebbels would love them.