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%
November 02, 2010 09:48 AM UTC
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You have written and posted 34 comments and a diary over the last 24 hours on this site alone.
Of those comments, 18 were posted during times when you could have been making calls. But even after 9pm when the other 16 comments and the diary were posted, claiming victory before any results have been posted is premature.
You have been one of most frequent posters of the type of victory posts that I am talking about. So answer my question. Why? What do you get out of it?
Originally, it kept Dems focused on me instead of campaigning. Sort of taking it to your opponents turf – “fight them over there instead of at home”. The left was allowed to grow unchecked in the last several election cycles because conservatives clumped together in hiding instead of taking their arguments to the other side and engaging in debate. It was an educational mission to squash the dangerously insane ideas of the left. Then Pols actually gained in popularity and began to be picked up by traditional media, in which case it became a great soapbox from which to get my arguments across to the larger public. Just throw up a controversial diary, it gets tons of comments (because people love to hate me), and voila everybody’s talking about it. And finally, yes it is satisfying to gloat. No, the election is not over for another 17 hours, but 2/3 of the vote is already in and all the work is done except making a few phone calls – all the arguments have been made.
While that may be the answer to someone’s question, it is not the answer to MY question.
I’ll try simpler words.
Why, on November 1st 2010, are you publicaly declaring victory, even though no results have yet been announced? What does that specific act gain for you?
Believe he makes ‘arguments’ that ‘squash’ opposing ideas. Let him be. He’ll learn soon enough that it’s mommy leaving the quarters under his pillow.
Just the sheer unadulterated glee of declaring victory and then being proven right.
How’s that working out for you this morning.
You and HMan and No2Dems posted nearly a hundred posts between you claiming that Buck was a done deal, already won.
But now that the dust has settled, it is clear that you were, in no uncertain terms, completely wrong.
So I’ll ask one more time, why did you feel the need to claim victory before you had any reasonable evidence of it?
And now that you have been proven wrong (not that you needed to be), do you regret the dozens of posts that now, in retrospect, make you look completely foolish and ignorant? (Again, not that you didn’t before)
than a freshly salted wound.
what arr the odds that you get a response from the intended?
and did not post one single comment while he was.
I have to admit that I enjoyed that. It won’t last, but beej has shut up for once.
I can only imagine the internal debate that is occurring between his natural inclination to spew twaddle, and the realization of what he was in for once he does.
Oh the stress . . .
Stalin was just so certain of his own genius that he had a nervous breakdown when his own ineptitude (in the form of 15 or 20 German divisions crossing the frontier) smacked him in the face that he wasn’t heard from for nearly a day. An underling named Molotov had to announce the news on the radio, and it took Stalin hours just to give the orders to actually fight back.
I imagine beej is in a similar state of shock. His bragging was delusional.
or this?
of the image of Rick Santorum’s daughter after he lost his re-election bid a few years ago – the one where his whole family was there while he was conceding. I won’t post it since kids are off-limits, but beej undoubtedly was looking like that for a while.
Watch your step.
We’ll see who’s overestimating their importance this election.
Like I’ve told you on many occasions, flipping some remark back at the person doesn’t work when the person who directed it at you is NOT guilty of the same thing as you.
a complete fucking moron — and, I don’t mean that figuratively.
like you really think your cellar-dwelling troll posting kept any, ANY Dems from voting? You R fucked in the head boy!
I think the purpose is to try to draw attention away from their candidate who is polling below 10% in the Governor’s races.
H-Man, BJ, and No2Dems seem to be doing everything they can to keep the conversation on the major race they might win instead of the one they are almost certainly going to lose.
Wouldn’t you be doing the same thing if the show were on the other foot?
There are plenty of legitimate, important things that they could be directing attention to, if that was the way they were going.
But as I mentioned in the OP, the people who read this site, especially those who read into the comments, have likely already voted. So where the attention is doesn’t really matter. In fact, if anything, they should be trying to direct attention AWAY from the contested race and towards the races that no longer matter to them.
(I’m pretty sure that the candidates I prefer are gonna get a thumpin’ tonight.) But you gave me the opportunity to publicly (and anonymously) declare myself an asshole, so I took it.
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friends don’t let friends reply ….
I think people are bragging now because at least half of them won’t be able to brag on November 3.