President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%↑
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
52%↑
48%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
50%
50%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 06, 2010 12:33 AM UTC
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As of 3:38pm, 100% of CO Polsters pronounce it “polls.”
So there.
and while we’re on that subject, is it:
ARE-DEE
or ARD-ee?
Inquiring minds don’t really care;-)
Sir!
But I also acknowledge “Your Eminence.”
“H-man”?
I’m drawing a blank, but I’m sure English has other examples of abbreviated words that aren’t pronounced like the originals.
Or is that some fru-fru French thing? VOY-a-zhay… 🙂
Hey, I may be old, but I can still see;-)
🙂
They are in the glass by my bed…;-)
They are in the glass by my bed…;-)
I thought everyone said ‘polls’. It sounds way nicer.
Polls. I mean, it’s gotta be that.
We aren’t on Colorado Paul’s.
I’m certainly not a Paul-ster.
But we’re still all Pals.
Do you talk about this out loud?
everyone knows bloggers don’t have friends–other than their mothers and their mothers’ basement furniture.
In my house it goes like this:
My wife: “What are you doing in there? On Colorado Pols again??”
Me (slurred): “Ah, leave me alone!”
Just kidding. But we do call it “Colorado polls” when we mention it.
I’ll admit that “polls” may sounds better but it isn’t what we talk about for the majority of the time. I’m going with “pahls” as I believe it to be more accurate.
I hesitated in answering the survey as I hear they’re used to force people into internment camps. Then remembered I’m not a conservative so no worries.
Because Colorado Pawls is the correct pronunciation, and those Pole people are wrong.
It’s just such a burden sometimes. Constantly surrounded by weirdos who can’t pronounce “pahls”. 🙂
some of my closest lifelong friends are Pauls. It would simply be ignorant to mispronounce Pols — just like potato.
I once had a poster that said, “Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.” I think I was in my 20s then, and would not have the hubris to display it now.
Still don’t get Poles, though. If that’s right, then shouldn’t this be Coalorado Poles?
Then we’d all have to go to a church named St. Casimir’s
It’s exactly the right kind of ridiculousness after a very strange election!
I’m a pawl-ster.
We’re enjoying the speculation, though. We’ll tell you tomorrow morning which one it is.
It’s a short “o.”
As in politics or politician.
Square State? 😉
Oh, HELL no.
that’s the way I pronounce pols. Same as politifact. There are contravening examples by the twos out there!
hehehehe
The correct pronunciation of “Colorado Pols,” and we should know since we’ve been pronouncing it since the end of 2004, is the same as “Colorado Poles” or “Colorado Polls.” Note the “long O”–in our usage, the “Pols” has always been short for “politicos,” not “politicians.”
We realize that, based on this poll, some of you will think we are wrong. And we do permit readers to disagree with us, of course. The beauty is, unlike most subjects discussed on this blog, we get to be the dictatorial final word on pronunciation of our own name.
Which means you are wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. For the ages.
Poles it is.
on bjwilson’s Bible that you knew what a “polled hereford” was before reading my story;-) Don’t mess with the Colorado Cattleman’s Association.
Before I knew that beef was one of the things making me feel so bad, they had one of two political lunches I’d volunteer to stand in for. Guess the other one.
Anyway, large men have an odd desire to tell me nearly inappropriate things. Don’t know why.
You are wrong? What do you guys know about it anyway?
You may have been pronouncing it “poles” all along, but that only means you have been mispronouncing it all along.
The end.
Pahls people can have the kids’ table. 🙂
We won’t have to act all grown-up and stuff. We can just mock everyone else and be juvenile. Sounds like … well … pretty much my whole life.
I was right for once! (Everyone is used to me being left…)
I’ve been pronouncing it “Colorado Pawls” since 2004. It’s the foundational underpinning of my entire worldview. I simply cannot be wrong.
The Descent of Pols, and Selection in Relation to Sex. This text was written by one of my favorite authors (the quote in my signature line is from another of his books with an eerily similar title).
Clearly, those of us who correctly pronounce “poles” are more attractive to the opposite sex and achieve greater evolutionary fitness.
(I bet those of you who pronounce it “pawls” also are really good at asking “Do you want fries with that?”)
As in, “What happened to all those polled shills that used to hang around here?”
they really can’t compete.