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
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%
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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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DEMOCRATS
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February 28, 2020 11:34 PM UTC
56 Comments
I dunno about that quote from Seneca. These days, the *resident often praises "his" minions — at least for awhile. And they are pretty lowly in MANY people's estimations.
Looking forward to getting South Carolina results tonight. 54 delegates and a campaign narrative or two rest on the outcome.
ABT
Trump and Tea Partiers are urging their supporters to vote for Sanders today in S.C. Probably for the same reason that Putin supports Bernie. Get a clue.
Mike Littwin ponders “What if Bernie gets the nomination?”. He agrees with most of us: ABT
I love that bernie is still pissed at the dodgers leaving brooklyn. Da bums was my team and I'll never forgive them! After the Great betrayal I switched to the Pittsburgh Pirates and still cherish their defeat of the yankees in the world series.
Hey V.
I am doing a little spring cleaning and came across an old cassette that made me think of you. It is a Wagner piece I haven’t listened to in a number of years…yep, you guessed it.
It is good that it is preceded (on my cassette at least) by the “Siegfried Idyll”. It is good to prepare mentally for “the Ride”. Quite stirring and it leaves me asking myself…What is gonna be the best part of a President Bernie?
I’m thinking, all the free stuff.😉
I think you may be being rhetorical.
But if we are going beat Trump it will help more to motivate turnout of left leaning voters.
Best part would be: Inauguration Day.
Followed closely by stabilized Social Security Old Age Pension.
The other route to victory is taking voters away from Trump with a rational candidate. New voters like unicorns might really exist but are really hard to find. It is a big 'if they show up' bet at a time when all we need to do is beat Trump.
Best part of president bernie:
The absolute dead silence for four straight years on fox!
The Los Angeles Dodgers. I'm in my mid-50s. They moved before I was born. Get over it. And go blue. And BTW, a game at Chavez Ravine beats the hell out of a game anywhere in NYC.
It’s BROOKLYN Dodgers! Never forget. Never forgive.
NO!
It is the St. Cardinals! (and a lot more World Series!)
Did you mean St Louis Cardinals? They are not a runaway team.
May the gashouse gang live forever!
Where have you gone, Connie Mack? Kansas City turns its lonely eyes to you.
ABY … the constant position of several of my baseball-focused friends.
What, pray tell, does ABY mean?
Anybody but Yankees?
Yep … Anybody but Yankees … Have one friend who claims to have taken that position since the early 1970s.
Well, my dad taught me to root for the underdog. The Yankees had the money to buy titles, so we always rooted again them.
I don't care about ideological difference as much as I care about a D win.
"Bernie Sanders Can Beat Trump. Here’s the Math.
Most available evidence points in the direction of a popular vote and Electoral College victory."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/bernie-sanders-polls.html
Thanks MADCO. I don't want a revolution as much as I want a D win. Same goes for senator. If you want to beat Cory Gardner vote for John Hickenlooper.
D wins.
Agree. If we get Hick, I am seriously considering moving to Phoenix to work for Mark Kelly.
Is everyone else as relieved as I am that Roger Stone found Jesus at a Franklin Graham rally last month?
Blessed be the (rotten) fruit.
I’ve always felt that Jesus could do a whole lot better sometimes at picking hiding places . . .
. . . just sayin’.
Aren’t they going to be surprised when they roll up to the Pearly Gates looking for #WhiteProsperityJesus only to discover Jesus is a black woman with impeccable records, takes the “vengeance is mine” thing literally and can’t be bought with their riches?
They will really crap their pants when Jesus smiles at them and says "My pronouns are They\Them."
Universal healthcare. Free at the point of service.
Are you against Capitalism, or something?
Capitalism is against me. 🙂
Like nature, Capitalism is neither good or bad. In the case of Capitalism, it all depends on the people who apply it.
We have more of a plutonomy. Or oligarchy.
Capitalism works well – especially with a democractic style of government – until the distribution gets distorted.
In any economy output is the result of some positive function of capital, labor and innovation.
Y = f {K,L(a)}
The math has been done (Gini Piketty, Solow, Veblen and others) and the distribution of that output will determine whether the economy is fair and growth oriented less so.
Exactly.
Libertarianism always devolves into Kleptocracy.
Money = Power
Extreme Money = Extreme Power.
And corrupts absolutely.
https://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/citigroup-attempts-to-disappear-its-plutonomy-report-2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonomy (see esp footenotes 4 and 7)
Wave goodbye to Tom Steyer … guess we'll need to get along with only one billionaire still in the mix.
at about 10:20 local time, 90% reporting,… maybe the comparison in speed of results will be noticed and we can expect more jurisdictions to dump their caucus?
in 2016, entire turnout was 371k. Sanders got 96,498 votes, for 26%, and 14 delegates.
In 2020, 90% reporting and voter turnout is already 461k. Sanders has almost 92k, so he's likely have have more votes than 4 years ago. The Green Papers site is estimating the delegate split as 39 Biden, 15 Sanders, everyone else blanked.
To me, the interesting question is…whence goes Steyers' support and money?
If he throws in with the progressive wing of the party, which seems likely to me, could his wealth tip the scales significantly?
If he spends, yes.
Maybe not for July – but for November, yes.
Mayor Pete’s out, too. I am sorry/ not sorry to see him go…he was evolving into a demagogue, spewing half-truths and distortions….but man, what an orator. Nice to see an openly gay man flustering all of the hypocrites, too.
I’m sure we’ll see more of him in the years to come.
I'm sure if the D wins, we'll see more of him later this year.
I’ve always liked Joe Biden. I never saw him as presidential, but if he is the nominee, I’ll get behind him.
Oddly – no one is bitching now about he’s too old.
I woke up shaking me head about the hypocrisy of Americans, specifically thinking about things that are socialist that Americans love.
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
Public education – elementary through 12th grade
Transportation infrastructure
Roads
Bridges
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Railroad Administration
Regulated utilities
Water
Electric
Gas
Libraries, Flood control, Environmental standards, National parks
And hundreds of other areas of our lives. Socialist.
I and millions of other veterans have had government run, single payer healthcare all of our adult lives.
Sometimes the for profit motivation of a free market (suppoted by socialist institutions) is awesome:
consumer electronics, cars, food, movies and entertainment, clothes, etc.
Other times – introducing a profit motive distorts what should be the goal.
Americans love socialism. But Americans hate anyone who says so.
US Postal Service
The big con job was the fabrication of the mythical "Free Market". No such animal.
It really is simple.
FDR…NEW DEAL!
RONNY RAYGUN… NEW DEAL BAD!!
Back to Old Deal!
Milton Friedman is chortling in his grave.
Friedman was wrong about almost everything- and all the plutonomists know it.
"We are all Keynesians now" ~ M Friedman
He got that right.
Smith was right, and should be taught in middle school.
WOTD from Dylan Matthews at Vox: "How are Bernie Sanders’s elite Democratic opponents this incompetent?"
Vox knocking it out again.
Dylan Matthews should get a show on MSBC.
ABT
It is no surprise the DNC and Democratic party establishment are beginning to panic. If Bernie, or for that matter Elizabeth, become president, the Washington DC/NYC political/corporate money machine will be turned on its head.
They can see the writing on the wall.
Joe Biden is running to maintain the domination of the Democratic party. Bernie is running to re-establish the domination of the American people over their government.
“This is a big fucking deal”
-Joe Biden-.
Where do you see "panic?" There are people concerned — but I suspect there are just as many people, if not more, with a similar level of concern about Sanders losing again.
Things will change … no matter who is nominated as President. If Sanders is the nominee and wins the election, glitzy dinners by the DNC for fundraising will go away — as far away as needed for the PACs and Super PACs to take them over. If Biden wins, national campaigns may not do as much "crowd-funding" — but someone will inherit the mailing lists and use them to fuel political careers.
If you say they are not panicking, I will take your word for it. I am sure you have a better read on the party establishments' frame of mind. I have effectively become a hermit. I don't hang with Democrats like I used to.
If you add Elizabeth Warrens' numbers to Bernies' you get just short of half…
You think Biden can consolidate the remainder?
No
Dave Krieger in the Colorado Sun takes an unsparing look at the candidates, the media and the dilemma we face in choosing from among too many alternatives when there does not appear to be an obvious "Goldilocks" running.
As Republicans found out in 2016, our political parties, the media circus and our primary process are all ill-suited to dealing with a fragmented field of candidates.
Down to 7 "major" candidates now, and one of them makes no appreciable difference (Gabbard got less than 7,000 votes, 1.3% of the total). 3 were already triaging Super Tuesday, trying to find places to maximize their chance of getting delegates with limited resources.
We will know a great deal more on Wednesday morning.
Why is Gabbard still in this? She isn't much of a big D Democrat. and she doesn't seem to have much of a platform. Is she worried she'll lose her House seat? If so, wouldn't she do better trying harder to hold on to that than this hopeless bid for POTUS?
Ego. And prep for 24
Wow! I didn't think he'd be the first to go:
Feels like he got some calls.
I didn’t call him.
Did you?
I saw him do a brief interview from Americus, Georgia. Maybe he had a chat with Jimmy. I wonder ….
I'll bet he got a good offer. He's young, no reason to burn bridges with the DNC.
I was polled by cell phone by an outfit called “Current Events” from the metropolis of Grapevine, Texas. They asked questions about Presidential preference and demographics .
But they aren’t on the list of pollsters at RCP or 538.com. Anyone ever heard of them? Just curious.