CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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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%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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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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REPUBLICANS
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December 01, 2014 06:33 AM UTC
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Open Rebellion in the US Senate – whose side will Mikey Bennet be on?
The lessons from the last election seem pretty obvious. But there is still great resistance among those already in power to "learning" them. Bennet made sure to not take any blame for the failure of Bannock Street. He also seems to just want to keep on keepin' on…..as if his term in office has been bold or productive in any way. Bennet's strategy and political moves have been anything but and he shows no signs of changing.
Thank goodness there are some in the senate willing to push back against the Corporatists among us. Elizabeth Warren is one of them. Bennet should be another.
Cheer up, Zapp. We got rid of Pryor and this Saturday, we'll probably be rid of Landrieu as well. So things are getting, right?
Courage and conscience — who has it and who doesn't?
We live in times that test us. Sad that, but it can't be helped. I would not want to be a Clinton — a triangulating billionaire-serving Democrat — as the day's issues grow more stark and the bright lines more clear. And I'm not sure I'd want to be a party-loyal, on-the-fence progressive either. Yet that way victory lies, the way of courage.
Just look who won and who lost in the last set of fights. Marriage equality won — becausegays went toe-to-toe with Obama and defied their own "triangulating" organizations, like Human Rights Campaign. Immigration reform is winning — because immigration activists pushed La Raza to call Obama the "deporter-in-chief" and he didn't like it.
Courage and conscience. Do progressive Senators have what it takes? Does Harry Reid have what it takes to support them? Do any of our Democratic U.S. Senators have that spark of Harry Truman, or are we destined to be ruled by Corporatists of both parties for time immemorial?
With all due respect, Zappy, you are 100 percent full of crap! By your standards, Lenin was soft on capitalism.
Agreed, V. The last thing we need is a progressive purity group modeled on the tea party.
You two don't want to go on a left-wing purification binge?
the difference between the activist and the partisan: the activist wants a liberal candidate, the partisan wants a Democratic senator.
And because what is marketable as a liberal in Massachusetts should be equally marketable as a liberal in Mississippi…….
The liberal activist wants an elected liberal. Unelected liberals aren't much use, all in all, as politicos go. No one hangs on their every syllable as they do with, say, Caribou Barbie. Or Darth Cheney, being asked how to handle Iraq 'cause he did such a special snowflake of a job when he was in charge.
I think that BC is right – focus on the policies, which most people support, not the labels on the candidate.
examples:
The problem is that we, as progressives, have to get better at promoting these policies, enough to overcome the right wing Faux Noise machine.
The traditional way we have tried to get our message out and implement policies in governance is by running and electing strong, charismatic, electable candidates. The consultant class has recently decided that "electable" means downplaying the policies, or emphasizing one at the cost of the others.
As progressive Democrats, we have not really adapted to the propaganda machine of the right. Liberal talk radio is dead; progressive journalism is thriving, but is mostly online or on cable, not in an easily accessible format. We're not getting our message out the way the corporatists (of both parties) are. We can't communicate to the people who need to hear us by canvassing blitzes once every two years.
there are those of us who agree with you Mr. Zappatero…My question is "What Next"…"who can the Dems run against Bennett?…who just voted his true heart…the XL Funnel of Death…Now that the price of oil is falling, will we see a scramble from big oil to cement their policies before they loose all their leverage..?
DeGette.
DeGette can't win statewide, and she's smart enough to know that.
But she's not a conservative like Bennet. Isn't that all that matters. Who cares whether she can win or not. This is about the soul of the Democratic Party. If we have to lose a few seats in order to purify ourselves, so be it. Look at how it worked for the Republicans.
Sanders/Warren '16
And she has horrible constituent service, according to people who have dealt with her, or her staff. Rude, dismissive, contemptuous constituent service.
Perlmutter's staff is excellent; so is Mike Coffman's. He may be a weirdo corporate droid, but he hired good people who work hard for the people in his district.
It makes a difference. People will re-elect folks who demonstrate caring and follow through.
Agree. DeGette's a non-starter outside of her own 100% safe district.
DeGette is a one-trick pony. Reproductive rights are important, but they won't get you elected statewide (cf Mark Uterus).
I thought her issue was stem cells.
Hey, maybe she is a viable candidate!
Synergy.
Least anyone be confused, my suggestion that DeGette run statewide was entirely tongue in cheek. Anyone w/ any arterial flow above the neck knows that Degette ‘s ideology and style does not travel well south of Hampden or east of Monaco or west of Sheridan.
Are you quite convinced her style is all that impressive inside those boundaries . . . ?!?
I can't run………Merrifield needs to finish his current gig. Not sure what is next, but I will certainly register my disapproval of Bennet. Maybe some of it will get through before he loses to Buck.
This is a great read:
The GOP's political strategy against Obama keeps leading to policies conservatives hate
But Republicans preferred to keep their fingerprints off any kind of action, even if that meant a policy outcome they liked less.
They honestly have not cared about any policy goals since the day Obama was elected. All they've cared about is causing anything Obama supports to fail, even if it's policy he got straight from their own think tanks. Their only goal has been to create enough misery to convince the American people to turn Obama out in 2012. Well, that and the related goal of suppressing the votes of any who couldn't be convinced to get rid of him. When that failed they figured they could keep it up and at least deny Obama the Senate in 2014.
It's not just that they don't care about passing good legislation to make life better for the American people. It's not just that they have no real plans beyond hating Obama and obstructing him at every turn. It's that they actually very much want the American people to suffer as much as possible. That 's the plan. The only plan. They've decided that's all they've got. We'll see how that pans out for them in 2016, not just a presidential year but a year in which they'll be the ones with the lion's share of Senate seats to defend in hostile territory.
They do have a plan, BC. Same as the old plan. Cut taxes!
They do think that solves everything, don't they?