President (To Win Colorado) See Full Big Line
(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver) See Full Big Line
(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish) See Full Big Line
(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO) See Full Big Line
(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Anna Stout
40%↑
40%↓
30%↑
5%↓
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado) See Full Big Line
(R) J. Sonnenberg
(R) Richard Holtorf
(R) Deborah Flora
15%↑
10%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs) See Full Big Line
(R) Doug Lamborn*
90%
CO-06 (Aurora) See Full Big Line
(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County) See Full Big Line
(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.) See Full Big Line
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Scott James
60%↑
30%↓
30%↓
State Senate Majority See Full Big Line
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority See Full Big Line
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 29, 2018 7:17 am MST
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Fourteen Senate Republicans joined every Democrat Wednesday in voting for a resolution opposing continued support of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
Trumpublican Senator Cory Gardner voted against this resolution, another step in what should be his 2020 election demise in now-blue Colorado. Shame on you, Cory.
Give The Donald a hug, Cory.
"Deep Blue"? I think solidly anti-Trump Colorado might be more accurate.
Though this puts Gardner in a pickle. If he were a moderate Republican the righties might primary him like happened in SC-01 with Katie Arrington defeating the incumbent in the primary largely on a platform of being pro-Trump. She went on to lose narrowly in what is otherwise a R+18.9% district to a moderate Democrat.
The problem for the Republican party in Colorado is the plurality of Republican voters who are crazy anti-government, anti-furriner, anti-gay, anti-knowledge zealots.
Contamination due to toxic spill-over from surrounding states?
Nope, home-grown. See: Eastern Plains, most of the Western Slope and the majority of voters in El Paso County.
Thirty some years of listening to Rush and his imitators. And maybe it was always like this. I remember my S. California Republican Grandmother grabbing my arm at a fair upon seeing a black man and a white woman together and saying, "Don't you ever date a black woman. Your children won't know what they are." That must have been sometime around 1988. I was not yet a tween.
And to my shame I believed her and was a young Republican until about 1998. As I grew less racist and anti-gay I reevaluated and finally left the Republican party in time to vote for Gore.
Good on you! The only Rush I ever listened to was this one:
Why are the GOPers against the furries? they are cute.
Furries are very suspect in the eyes of Republicans. Don't you know?
Early morning Trumpstink:
Michael Cohen was in court for a plea agreement with Robert Mueller this morning, marking Mueller's return to a guy he had handed off to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Cohen's offense: lying to Congress. It's important because Cohen has spent some 70 hours talking to the Mueller team, and one fact that's come out is that he continued to negotiate with Russian interests on behalf of Trump as recently as August 2017 over a possible Trump Tower Moscow.
Also, the President's favorite bank (i.e. the one that will lend him money) — DeutscheBank — was raided by German authorities. Supposedly this is over money laundering, possibly related to the Panama Papers but possibly directly related to Russia, and possibly related to Trump.
One minor error in your comment about Deutsche Bank, Phoenix. Deutsche Bank is the one non-Russian bank that lends money to the Trump Organization.
Deutsche Bank is just the Russians' laundromat.
I thought the NRA was the "Russians' laundromat?" How many millions did the NRA give Trump in 2016 and where did it all come from?
And I'm not referring to the National Restaurant Association or the National Rehabilitation Association.
The Russians obviously are spreading their money around to help Trump and the GOP
Negev surely has a good explanation for this entire misunderstanding:
Okay, Bennet is blaming himself for the situation we find ourself in with majority-rules SCOTUS nominations…
Raise your hand if you think Republicans weren't ready to abolish the 60-vote threshold the day they took control of the Senate, after holding up so many of Obama's nominations…
This is not the fault of Democrats; it's the inevitable result of the Republican obsession with power.
If Reid & his Democrats had not pushed to eliminate the filibuster on District and Circuit court judges, it wouldn't have happened then. No telling which party would have been more blameworthy in the eyes of voters or what would have happened with the increasing number of judicial emergencies.
Among Republicans, there was some dissent about the wisdom of totally abandoning the requirement for 60. Hard to argue the hypothetical one way or the other.
As for Bennet's effort to restore a 60 vote rule — I'd cynically predict it won't happen until there is additional disgust with those judges confirmed with 50+1 VP vote or until there is a 55+ Democratic majority. In other words, not yet. Starting now might be a good idea, but Bennet should plan on the effort needing to last until after the 2022 election.
It was obvious at the time that the strategy was to run out Obama's clock and then rush appointments through a Republican Presidency if it happened. They certainly didn't have any reservations about removing the 60-vote threshold for SCOTUS the moment they had the Presidency.
Blaming Reid and Democrats for trying to restore some semblance of operational readiness to what was at the time an Executive and Judiciary nearing crisis vacancy levels is short-sighted at best. We're re-enacting Lucy and the football every time we look at this as the fault of Democrats.
Filing this one under “live long enough”: . . .
. . . finally there’s one thing Thurston and I agree upon.
And just what is it preventing Republicans from doing this every time they gain control? The Senate makes its own rules, and those rules are majority-controlled. How can anyone here still be acting on the assumption that Republicans will play nice with others? Maybe sanity will return some day, but I'm still in the camp of the party having to burn itself to the ground first.
What they need is some type of constitutional amendment at the federal level like GAVEL was for the Colorado legislature.
And maybe a provision that judges need 60 votes for confirmation since we are stuck with them long after a president leaves office.
What would be the consequence of 45 Senators hanging tough for not allowing anyone but their side's activists on the bench in the case of the 60 votes for confirmation?
A 60% rule to promote compromise is a fine thing as long as there is not 41% of elected officials committed to breaking the system. Such rules empower the minority to stop everything unless there is some sort of consequence.
As an independent I would like to see a system that promotes non-partisan appointments to positions like the judiciary, head of NASA, etc. The constitution does not provide for such a system. It has all operated under a gentleman's agreement by tradition. That is a house built of sand unless a significant portion of each party is willing to break with their allies to defend the system.
Each time such a group has formed they have been defeated, largely by the threat of the right wing primary.
Good luck with putting the genie back in the bottle, Thurston. I think it is just a matter of time before they abolish the 60-vote requirement for legislation.
"I'm still in the camp of the party having to burn itself to the ground first."
They're getting there fast, PR. The Yam has made it clear that he likes to watch institutions burn and his sheeple in Congress are playing with matches to please him.
Grumpy Trump's foreign policy is getting even more scatter-brained as the pressure from Mueller's investigation nears the boiling point:
Oh darn!!! I was hoping to watch Trump grovel and bow before Putin again, just like he did with Putin in Helsinki.
Even Trump has to know that a public ass-kissing would look REALLY bad right about now.
The optics are not good. Never forget the optics.
It took Kelly, Pompeo and Bolton all pulling on Trump's leash to get him to cancel
While it's a little early to dance an Irish Jig on the GOP's grave, some interesting analysis just came out regarding the mid-term voter profiles.
The full report is available here
At this rate, instead of voter suppression, the Republicans will pass legislation allowing the dead to vote, using their former GOP affiliation as an expression of their “intent”, sort of like how Mormons baptize the dead into their church 😉