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 04, 2010 06:27 AM UTC
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This is, in many ways, far more important than who controls the House of Representatives in Congress.
That’s done by a bipartisan committee, with the ultimate balance of power being appointees from the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. control of either or both chambers makes no difference as to the number of
Rs or Ds on that committee.
I’m noting saying the committee is above politics, far from it. but the constititional amendment by the league of women voters and common cause was constructed to leave the legislative ones balanced so the court appointees (some of who were quite partisan) had balance of power.
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Where the makeup of the lege still counts is in terms of Congressional redistricting, which is outside the scope of that amendment. Dems controlling both houses and the gov. might try to pull a “midnight gerrymander” (without the shenanigans of that infamous power grab by John Andrews” and recarve the seven seats to give themselves a odds in 3rd or 4th Cds. .
Colorado Constitution, Article 5, Section 48(1)(b)
Now, as many of you may know, the Chief Justice position is vacant since Mary Mullarky resigned. The appointment of a new chief justice will obviously hold a lot of bearing in the outcome of the reapportionment committee. The Governor’s choice to fill that position must be confirmed by the Senate. So we can be grateful that the Dems held there.
Her term was up and I think she just declined to seek retention. That means she stays in office until January. Also, while the gov will appoint to the vacancy on the court created by her departure, he will not name a chief justice. The chief justice is chosen by the court itself, among its members, which is unlike the U.S., Supremes, where the prez does indeed pick the chief justice.
I don’t think the Senate confirms judicial appointments. A merit selection committee gives three names to the gov., who appoints from that list. There is no confirmation.
The appointee serves at least two years and then stands for retension for a full term, which IIRC is ten years for the Supreme Court.
since we are already past the 2010 election, I assume the new Justice will face a retention election in 2014.
Colroado Consitution – Article V, Section 44
So yes, having control of both houses of the state legislature would make a big difference, since the body as a whole is charged without stipulation.
Best place to grab the accurate ones would be directly from the relevant county clerk’s websites.
All returns are now in for HD33 and Primavera has called Beezley. The lead changed from 315 this morning to a current 330. Military ballots and an extremely small amount of provisionals remain outstanding.
Probably safe to call this one for Beezley now as no precincts remain outstanding.
Jefferson County (where HD 29 and Benefield reside) is way behind on online updates.
What’s more, according the people at the Arapahoe County office, provisional and oversees ballot are not included in the
“precincts reporting” percentage and will not be reflected in the totals until the final certification. But the person I was talking to didn’t seem totally confident when she said that.
Thanks to CPols for my first front page.
Go any further “right” and it only gets worse for you. Not to worry, one of Bueschers last acts was to try as hard as possible to avoid getting military overseas ballots out in time. I’m sure some Rep votes were suppressed, should soften the blow of a 500 vote advantage just down to a 300 or so one.
don’t know Bernie Buescher very well. How about substantiating your claim? Bernie is one of the finest and most ethical men I know.
Back up your slander with facts or apologize and shut the fuck up.
to know he’s a failed politician in the last election, had to get Daddy Ritter to throw him a political lifeline in the SOS job, and then in a real election gets shellacked – all with the backing of about the richest guy in the world (Soros and his SOS Project). It takes a special kind of schmuck to lose with all of those advantages.
And he did admit in a TV interview that he was forced into complying with the MOVE Act, or don’t you recall Colorado being one of the states singled out as in danger of violating that law? The excuse of when the primary occurs and when the ballots go out isn’t good enough when you are in the majority party, as is the Governor and both houses of state government.
Loser straight down the line.
To avoid the same problem next time, the Legislature needs to change the primary date.
for Terrance Carrol to offer a congratulations to the Republicans. Truly.
But classy would have been congratulating them without a press release. This was an obligatory public gesture to make the D’s not look like sore losers.