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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
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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%
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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
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August 12, 2018 09:25 AM UTC
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What else does the "Whatever Trump Says" Party have to work with? Polis is a self-made centimillionaire, self-starter, angel investor, one man business incubator who will address the issues affecting working class and middle class (education and healthcare among many other issues).
Pretty much the exact opposite of Stumbleton, an entitled, lazy legacy, coasting on the family fortune and name, ready to take care of his frat boy circle and ignore the "great unwashed". Oh yeah, and repeat whatever Trump says like a good little poodle (h/t Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post).
Polis is a self-made centimillionaire, self-starter, angel investor, one man business incubator
And without the numerous bankruptcies that You-Know-Who has had.
"Polis is a self-made centimillionaire"
No. Hectamillionaire. A centimillion is 1/100 of a million or $10K.
Everyone gets this wrong.
"Polis has more money than God!"
Happy now, Dave.
According to Dave, centipedes either have just 1/100th of one leg, or they need to be renamed hectopedes
Look Frenchy, you can take your metric system and stuff it where the sun don't shine! Merriam-Webster begs to differ.
Centi- is from the Latin 'Centum' (that's why they use the 'C' in their number system), which is One Hundred, thus Centimillionaire.
Hah!! So there
Heh, heh. Wait until I start talking about rods and furlongs. Revenge!
I was in my teens before I learned 20,000 leagues under the sea was the distance traveled, not how deep they went. Oh, the disappointment!
That Staplegun's attack dog (isn't that what lite govs are for?) is throwing rocks already, tells me two things: their ticket has nothing to recommend it, and they know it.
Have they learned nothing from their Great Leader in D.C.?
There is no need to dog whistle anymore. You can shout out loud the most vile stuff that crosses your mind and you actually gain points for candor and political incorrectness.
By the time this campaign is over, we will be seeing re-runs of the 1984 gay pride in San Francisco complete with topless dykes on bikes, drag queens and leather daddies with Polis photoshopped into it. But none of them will be paid for by the Stapleton campaign. They will be brought to you by the family values folks in the Springs.
Perhaps Mothers Against Drunk Driving will do a nice hit piece on Stapleton to counter the pride parade video.
Jared, by all accounts, is a loving father. As a flaming heterosexual myself, I'll gladly stand with him in defense of family values.
Family values are as family values do. And I can't say that Stumblebum has done much.
Jared is a loving father. But that doesn't mean the forces of evil won't try to depict him as something else. Fortunately, he has enough money with which to defend himself.
John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. But that didn't prevent the Swift Boaters from trashing him. (And it was all the more outrageous given the military record of Kerry's opponent.)
Perception becomes reality in politics.
I was really disappointed in the Sentinel's coverage at just leaving it to be all about what Sias said, particularly the wholly unsupported bit about dems not being willing to vote for Polis. Show me those data? There is usually some rebuttal from the other side in articles like this in this paper.
The Sentinel sorely needs competent editing so reporters have to do their jobs.
There will be Democrats who will not vote for Polis. When Obama was running for the Senate way back in 2004 against a crazy black Republican who parachuted in from another state when the first nominee had to drop out due to scandal there were still 5% of self-identified Democrats in exit polls who said they voted for Alan Keyes. Source: CNN exit poll http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/IL/S/01/epolls.0.html
Now, Obama did win with 70% of the vote over all, including 40% of Republicans and 74% of independents, but still there were those 5% of people who were theoretically Democrats voting against Obama for some unfathomable reason.
My conclusion is that there will be at least 5% of almost any party who will vote against their nominee for some reason. The question is how many and I suspect the number of Democrats who would vote for Stapleton over Polis will be very low. It could be as high as 15% based on their still being about that percentage who oppose same sex marriage and may have some resentment against gays. On the other hand it could match Obama’s 5% given the lack of compelling positions or story from Stapleton.
Obama probably would have won regardless of who the GOP ran but he did get lucky with both of his Senate opponents.
The first was Jack Ryan, ex-husband to Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager fame (a/k/a Seven of Nine). Their divorce case file was sealed until a newspaper petitioned to get it unsealed. Apparently the marriage ended because Jack kept taking Jeri to a sex club and asking her to engage in sex on stage with him before the audience. The first time she said, "No." When he asked again, she decided to seek a divorce.
So GOP went from having a libertine as its candidate to running the prude, Alan Keyes, who was such a rabid homophobe that he disowned his daughter when she came out of the closet. What a piece of work! Even the morally-repulsive Dick Cheney still loved and accepted his daughter after she came out.
I've had this same conversation more than once with folks at the coffee shop, that Obama's political ascension was in part thanks to yet (another) Republican family-values politician caught with his hand in the cookie jar. It's usually followed by blank stares.
The
LordBlack Jesus works in mysterious ways.I would almost rate Stapleton as being as bad a nominee as either Ryan or Keyes, in his own unique way. Being a rich by accident of birth guy who either is incredibly lazy about doing his elected job or thinking that rules about checking in are for other people is not a great look for a politician.
Stapleton will undoubtedly get at least the 60% of Republicans that Alan Keyes got despite this. I am unsure about the 40% of self-identified Republicans that might have crossed party lines in the past. Though I would bet on at least 90% of all Republicans lining up behind even Trump were he running, but I am a cynical person.
Unless there is new information the same cannot be said of Polis. I think the maximum he could lose from his own party is the 15%. People who are part of the frack playgrounds and National Parks crowd or unrepentant homophobes. Maybe a very few super-super-super-Marxists who think that by voting for conservative it will bring the day of socialist revolution closer instead of voting Green, so like ten people statewide.
The MSU study (someone also posted this earlier) points out the size of the mountain Walker has to climb. He can't defy gravity. If the general election holds anywhere near the results of the primary it will be a good night for Dems.
Let's think about who will be hanging out with Dubya and Lang to tell them nearly anything.
The Legislature isn't in session, so they don't naturally mingle in a bipartisan crowd. This article talks about Sias in an eatery — on the West Slope — and acknowledges potential for bias.
So, are there Democrats who talk to Sias who don't like Polis? Sure — especially those who may have ties to extraction industries. I'm pretty certain some might show up at Veterans gatherings, too. And he may have a neighbor who likes the Sias family who says that sort of thing, too.
Should he say “the alternative is 50 shades of crazy” so out loud, in public, for attribution? I wouldn't advise it — now, the quote can be used as the introduction to any sort of policy discussion: "is it crazy to want to invest in better schools? What shade of crazy is it to have a more secure retirement system for our public servants?"
According to Jon Caldara, it's crazy if we don't mortgage our kids' futures in order to fix our potholes today. But for the single-topic rule, he would have thrown in a tax cut for the wealthy to boot. Walker is all in on that one!
Don't worry. We can pay off those highway bonds by cutting medicaid.
That's the ultimate Republican wet dream:
Paul Ryan admits the GOP will gut Medicare and Medicaid to pay for tax cuts
Of course they are.
I'm sensing a trending hashtag: #50shadesofkkkrazy
What's a Lang? Where do they come up with the names for these Republicans. Growing up a Lang and being bullied by 90lb weaklings probably made him 50 shades angrier than a normal person.
He was born Langhorne Cowles Sias in Wilton, CT. I’m not making this up.
In the proud tradition of Foghorn Leghorn.
You beat me to it! He's the campaign's Foghorn Leghorn.
Wilton is not quite Greenwich as far as money and snobbery but it is in Fairfield County and comes close.
I get the anti-gay insult but wonder why they think it is necessary? Western Slope isn't going to walk away from "Walker" but they can't deliver a statewide race and the places where the GOP needs to be persuasive isn't gay adverse. In fact, you would think this kind of blatant prejudice would be disapproved of along the Front Range where the race is going to be won. I guess they can't help themselves. It is like telling nigger jokes in front of a Trump lynch mob called a rally.
Deleting duplicate.
What GG said. It’s the scorpion problem — the modern Republican Party just can't avoid its nature and needs to get some digs in against gays whenever it can.