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 11, 2018 11:00 PM UTC
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Town crier reports:
Midnight, and all's not well.
There is Trumpstink afoot in the land.
Stay upwind, America.
This Mother's Day, boycott Waffle House.
Not Colorado, but close by in New Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/nu_7m–Ozrs
https://youtu.be/AkVmKOyUC5g
You want to pick winners in CD6, move here and register
If solid data says Levi runs stronger in the general, Crow should exit gracefully and endorse emphatically.
Or else, move there with the intent to stay, vote, and then return to your regular home.
Around here we call that a caldera.
MADCO, are you getting any mail pieces from any CD6 candidates?
Just Coffman.
All the damn time – I know it will accelerate this summer. Just Coffman
That’s just silly.
And, have you for a neighbor? Maybe if I wasn’t kinda’ particular about where I live and things . . .
Good one, though!
So, Madco, I had no right to send a check to Morgan Carroll two years ago because I didn't live in the district?
Morgan didn't see it that way.
As for "solid data", how about counting the votes in the primary?
But don't worry. If your candidate wins, I'll follow your orders and refuse to send him any money for the general election.
Should I ask Doug Jones for my donation back? MADCO "logic"
Yes.
Yes you should.
Well… are you the DCCC? The DNC? The Colorado Dems? The Arapahoe Dems?
I didn't mean you – but send your money wherever you want.
I guess I’m feeling old . . .
. . . old enough to remember when sports was (mostly) about the athletes and participants and athletic performance.
How Did Our Sports Get So Divisive?
https://nyti.ms/2GaEyBs
Althougb I still participate in, and enjoy watching, a number of amateur athletics, I have no desire any more to watch any professional sports. I’ve asked myself if it’s the ridiculous hype, the crazy cost that must be born now by every shoe and athletic gear and apparel buying family, the taxpayer subsidized multi-millionaire players and owners, our fucked-up societal priorities, the loss of unscheduled childhood afternoon games of pickup ball without parental and organized pressure to excel, my advancing age, or, maybe the faux patriotic polititization? . . .
Yes.
Are you channeling George Will, Dio?!?
Sports has always been political, in the "small p" sense. Small p politics has to do with struggles of people to be recognized as fully human, to not be denigrated nor discriminated against.
See the 1936 Olympic games, Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball, Muhammad Ali's heavyweight title, 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, 1968 Mexico City black power salute, and this year's expose of all of the sexual abuse of young gymnasts, brought to you by the #metoo movement.
In Colorado, 30 of our school sports teams still have racist names and mascots that degrade Native people: the Savages of Lamar, more or less neutral "Indian" mascot names, and those who pro-actively try to incorporate native (Arapahoe) culture into their schools, as the Strasburg school district is trying to do.
Doesn't the name "Savages" just reflect that Lamar usually votes Republican?
No.
Uhh, that was a joke.
It’s a shopworn liberal myth that jokes are supposed to be funny? . . .
Israel won Eurovision. It was a song that only makes sense in Eurovision.
My favorite was Ireland and they did poorly.
Has anyone ever tried to do a multi-continent version of this, like with Asian and African and Latin American stars?
Some students are learning about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin with Jesse Owens exploding Hitler's dreams of the Master Race.
It got me thinking; We could do a pop song summit with North Korea, a dance-off with Iran, and save the world a lot of trouble and heartache.
It would make about as much sense as Trump's foreign policy – whatever that is….today.
It's a shopworn liberal myth that Jesse Owens' brilliant individual performance somehow "exploded Hitler's dreams of the master race."
In fact, Germany easily won the medal count competition, with 33 golds to 24 for second place USA. Hitler gained great prestige from hosting the games as well as Germany's overall dominance of the competition. It is fair to say that Owens was the most brilliant individual athlete at the games. But Hitler was thrilled, not embarassed, by Germany's overall excellence.
…and you cite?
I have not heard that particular take, V. Are the two results mutually contradictory? …or you just feeling like bashing liberals this fine morning?
Oh…I guess that was last night..☺
Facts is facts, Duke. Google 1936 Olympics medals. The shame, of course, is that for all Owens'greatness, he was still victimised by racism upon returning to the U.S.
The EBU (they own/run Eurovision) has worked with groups for both an Asian and African version. And I think if we did ever see this happening with say 5 or 6 regions on the globe, they could then create a world championship where the top 4 or 5 from each compete.
But I don't think it'll happen. The other efforts always seem to fall apart. It's hard to match the combination of what makes Eurovision so compelling.
That's a shame. Eurovision has too much T&A for my taste, but I like most of the pop songs.
Meanwhile, Playing for Change came out with another "Song Around the World”: a compelling version of Dylan's "Watchtower":
Wunnerful
The New York Times editorial board suggests that California should take another big step as a laboratory for democracy. Republicans are already marginalized in a state with 45% Democratic Party registration. Moderates could cut loose from the remaining RWNJ's by starting a third party to provide a stronger voice tempering rampant tribal partisanship.
Colorado doesn't have the jungle primary system like California's (ranked choice would be better, IMHO), but we have taken the first steps to give the unaffiliated a greater voice (should they choose to use it) in our primaries. Plus, the legislature just passed two measures that will be on the ballot for determining how redistricting will be done to increase competitiveness.
I wouldn't be surprised if the political landscape is radically different in five years or so because I don't believe the current toxic atmosphere is sustainable, thus setting in motion another swing of the pendulum.
"independent commission"
Elected or appointed?
Mathematical or social?
I like to think what it would be like if the representative ratio today was anywhere close to what it was in 1920.
Or if we just had real proportional representation now – CA and Wyoming, for example
Dunno, I don't live in California. Probably need technical background in statistics, demographics and a few other 'ics'. Appointed, probably from a list of nominees/applicants — maybe hired consultants, sort of like the CBO or the staff scorekeepers that do the non-partisan analysis for the lege, right?
But as to your other points, I've thought for years that we need to expand the number of congresscritters to about 5,000 or so — to as you say, get the representative ratio back to something that would at least help with personally knowing your rep. That would get CA and WY back in proportion as a bonus.
Of course, with that many representatives, we'd need to make a few changes in the way legislation is created (single subject, study groups to debate and present the pros and cons to the whole assembly, fewer procedural blocks to eliminate gridlock – just up or down votes, etc.)
UPDATE: PEA members voted to end strike. Congrats on making the district negotiate, finally.
Congratulations and Happy Mother's (and Others) Day to Pueblo teachers and paraprofessionals, who forced the district to come up with a 2% cost of living increase. Union members are voting on the deal today, probably at this moment.
photo from brandsauthority news
It took a week of walking picket lines for the district to take the educators seriously and stop "playing poor" (while paying consultants, administrators, and testing companies millions), but come up with 2% cola they did.
Union sisters and brothers, I'm proud of you, thank you, and enjoy a day with your family. I will.
h/t to the skinny cook for pointing out the story to me.