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
50%↑
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%
October 14, 2009 10:23 PM UTC
22 Comments
People are frustrated. They are dissatisfied with government. They feel like complaining. GOP is complaining for them. Objections to behavior, policy, etc. of government officials is in tune with the public mood. The strategy is to wear away Dem dominance drip by drip by drip.
Where’s the link to acne treatment or low-interest refinancing?
No wait, he did.
Did you see there were a couple of incidences of that this week?
We need a better class of spammers. 🙂
….I can assure you that people in a democracy are always frustrated, they have always bitched.
Now, dissatisfied? Yes, a quantum change there. Why would that be? Is government that much worse or have certain people, industries, and media convinced the masses that gummint is the problem, not the solution. And made sure to make it too small and less responsive, something about bathtubs and drowning.
My parent’s generation and myself understand that good government can make our lives better.
Why do Republicans hate Americans?
the Dems have never done the same exact thing?
Man, it is amazing how perfect the ruling party is. I just don’t understand why they have not been in power all along. Why would anyone ever vote for Repubs knowing what we all know here on this blog?
I haven’t yet found an answer. If you do find a reason to vote for a Republican, please let me know.
You mean, squandering the surplus, driving the economy off a cliff, tying the military down in an expensive war of convenience, and plotting torture routines from the Oval Office aren’t good enough reasons? There’s just no pleasing some people.
In former Soviet Bloc countries, after the fall of Communism, reform parties sprouted exclaiming they could fix the problems of the past.
Well, time passed and the problems weren’t that easy to fix and the populace suddenly starts thinking they were better off under the old system.
Communists regained control in some countries only to be thrown out a few years later when the problems were still there.
Long story short, from Colorado to the former Soviet empire, governance is subverted by the petty and problems won’t go away unless leaders are willing to risk their jobs to fix them.
Since politicians, by nature, can’t do that, we’ll keep seeing this kind of pettiness from both sides of the aisle on and on and on until the only thing left is Gecko riding off into the sunset on his Harley blasting Deep Purple’s Highway Star.
But the GOP needs to temper some complaints by ALSO including a few suggestions/ideas from time to time. Otherwise it looks like all they do is complain, which strategically is not all that helpful.
I wanted to steal that for my sig line!
This is yet another story, as Pols notes, that is about them complaining about Democrats, or the things Democrats have done.
They should have seen this as a golden moment to unveil their detailed, specific, budget plan to get us out of this awful budget crisis. So far the Republicans have managed to commiserate with Dems on allowing Ritter to cut the budget, as well as the stop-gap budget that they passed last session which only delayed the inevitable.
If Republicans want to be seen as leaders, then do us all a favor and lead. Complaining about $20,000 of the overall budget is just political gamesmanship.
Put or shut up, GOP.
The point is that Republicans have nothing better to complain about than this garbage, and many times when they do complain, they are either wrong or knowingly telling lies. The problem for the republicans is that the public is already on to them. I think the last election showed that. Can you imagine a Democrat representing the 4th Congressional District in Colorado? Can you imagine large majorities in the legislature for the Democratic party??? Sorry guys, while the Democrats may be going down in the polls, the shrinkage comes mainly from Democrats who are mad that they haven’t carried through with their promises. The republican party’s numbers. Well, if that’s where you want to be, just keep on doing what you’re doing. Can you say minor regional party?
Back in ’93, I was flying to the east coast and had to go through D.C. Who should I see getting on the plane about 8 rows ahead of me but Roy Romer.
As a taxpayer, I was pretty impressed with him riding in the back of the plane with those of us in the steerage section!
Ritter flew a state plane to Wyoming, but probably only because that was a relatively short flight.