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%
September 17, 2010 04:19 PM UTC
17 Comments
just that, in CO, they are the superior choice.
Frazier 10-1,Gardner 6-1, Tipton 9-1, Buck 5-1?
and wouldn’t have. I have called that a wish list in the past. But, Buck at 5-1 while Bennet is only 4-1 seems like a realistic hope.
I know what Nate Silver says.
I also know what Buck says about Social Security being bad policy, about how the fed needs to get out of education, about women’s right to choose, about Russian immigrants selling guns to criminals….
Hope you at least had fun during your roughly 36 hour respite from us.
I’d like to see the whole exchange on the question from Buck.
http://www.facebook.com/buckfo…
Did you look at that poll the whole way through? It had the Republicans as more trusted to deal w/ most of the issues: Economy, Taxes, Immigration, and Health Care. I don’t doubt that the race is close but I take that poll w/ a large grain of salt. I don’t see 50% of the electorate thinking that Republicans have done any good, or have good ideas, on immigration and health care.
National polls show favor for an immigration bill like the one that McCain proposed back in 2006 or so. I don’t think 50% of voters here support spending billions to capture and kick out illegal immigrants. Could be wrong.
On the Economy and Taxes, maybe 50% think letting the deficit get worse is ok as long as they get their tax cuts.
I also look at Nate Silver from the NY Times who projects the race to end up 51-47 Buck. Some think it is a 2% either way race, some Buck 10+, I am of the view it will be approximately 5%. If there are 3% undecideds and 3% third party voters, and Rasmussen sees it at 49-45, Silver at 51-47 looks pretty consistent. Most undecideds usually break for the challenger and many third party voters end up voting for a major candidate as things get closer to the election.
I’d say the “40 second highlight” in the video clip showed that Mr. Buck has no experience in, or understanding of, how legislatures work–indeed of how government by mutual backscratching works on any level. Holding an incumbent legislator to every detail of every bill voted upon is like, well, holding a candidate to every verse of every chapter of a certain book I could name. Basically a silly rhetorical technique designed to divert attention from the meaningful issue (singular) in this contest: the accelerating decline of “the middle class” under policies pursued by the Republican Party.
Whether it’s Buck or someone posting on this site, the technique is intended to appeal to people who don’t think much, or know much, about the subject. I recall you being better than this, H-man; perhaps my memory fails me.
“Mr. Buck has no experience in, or understanding of… how government by mutual backscratching works on a any level”. Thank God!
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corruption in government is not a winning proposition.
Let’s start here, Mr. District Attorney:
And IF any CSU student(s) are benefiting, let’s introduce a special clause to stop it and stop it NOW. Show the way!
It was added on to in the stimulus bill which was voted for by Bennet. If he was a decent candidate he would have used the caveats that you identify as to why he ended up voting for it, not saying I voted for it but it was not an important amount of money that was pissed away.
Buck thinks wasteful spending is a meaningful issue. Apparantly you agree with Bennet that it is not. I suspect that there is a significant portion of the electorate that shares Buck’s view.
No, I think I’ll save my endorsement of wasteful spending for another day.
However, the term “wasteful spending” opens up quite the can of worms, does it not? We could start with Iraq. We could proceed to one or another new fighter plane project, for which I imagine we could find any number of Republican supporters. There are people who make whole careers out of identifying over-priced items in the defense budget–but nary a Republican that I know who votes against the defense budget on grounds that it included 500 $500 left-handed hammers. (I love my freedom and if it takes 500 left-handed hammers to defend it, what of it? Especially since >250kionaires won’t have to pay!)
Brother Murtha was long notorious for bringin’ home the bacon, probably the reason The People in his district kept sending him back for more. But he’s not running for the Senate from Colorado, is he? I do think, as I tried (unsuccessfully) to make clear, that it’s not possible to defend every dollar, every project, every tank, every airport, every war that gets through the process. But I don’t buy into the notion that Republicans are any tighter-fisted than their friends on the other side of the aisle, PLUS, the bills are drafted on an all-or-nothing basis. Are you for defending the nation against its enemies in Kazakhstan or not? Is that why you’re questioning the annual defense appropriation? Did you know that an unnamed CIA agent got smashed on Bloody Marys at the Baghdad Banana Bar on a government-issued credit card???? And you voted to fund the CIA???? And so forth, as it says (somewhere) in the Book of Leviticus…