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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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 13, 2010 04:15 AM UTC
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have learned the lesson of Scott Brown. Either the candidate or the TP will turn traitor.
I remember when Palin was on her book tour. A bunch of people (presumably supporters)were waiting to have their books signed. Instead, Palin took off for another event and the poor stiffs started screaming epithets.
Look — is that another demagogue on the horizon that will save us?
Keep your friends close. Keep your Teabaggers closest.
Except for their corporate benefactors.
Dog bites man.
Isn’t this what sort of happened when Nixon created the Southern Strategy and began to empower the religious right?
The R’s got a new army, but they created a Frankenstein’s monster for America.
Maybe the Tea Party displaces the religious right?
My first thought is “I’d rather have Tea Party Republicans than Religious Right Republicans.” but when I put more thought into it, I’m not sure…
The Religious Right is usually against a lot of big government involvement in business (Yay!) but they want big government involvement in my personal live (Boo!).
The Tea Partiers mostly want less government involvement in ALL areas of my life (Yay!) by stripping the federal government of all powers not explicitly spelled-out in the original constitution (Boo!).
The Religious Right is not bigoted – to them, minorities sustain their movement
The Tea Party, not all but major elements of it, is literally seeking to erase certain groups of people, religions, and ethnicities
Pick religion – for sure – as a minority, I could always find ways to get along with the Religious Right, but the Tea Party? There is just no way of reconciling their beliefs with mine
according to a story in today’s main Denver paper about how getting 36% of the vote is forcing them into major party status, has as its primary goal an American constitution establishing biblical law? What do they plan to do with the existing constitution that bans the establishment of any religion in it’s very first amendment going all the way back to our founding?
Bet most people think it’s a libertarian, tea type party. That seems to be the impression they like to give the general public. Do you think the 36% who voted for their candidate had trashing the constitution in favor a of a new one establishing biblical law in mind? Wonder how many beyond the 30 (yes that’s one zero) dues paying members ($17.76 every 6 months as if they don’t want to gut the founders’ constitution) who will now be obligated to operate 3,215 caucuses across the state along with lots of other expensive obligations? Wonder how happy they are now that they kicked out their own one percenter (at best) for Tanc, the star who is now showing no interest in bringing home the bacon for them or even remembering that they exist?
On an unrelated note, that ad for “The Patriot’s Toolbox: The Source for Tea Party Activists” that is now gracing the site (it is now positioned to the immediate left of my comment box) is quite eye catching. Think I’ll take a pass on the sure to be terrific offer.
HUGE difference between the Religious Right and the ACP
The Religious Right, by institutionalizing themselves within the Republican Party, are more open to compromise – they are not perfect, but I’ve found many religious right-wingers to be more willing to advance in finding common ground, rather than being stubborn saboteurs
After studying the ACP goals, I have my criticisms that “Constitutional” may not be the best descriptor term for their Party
…I never knew the day would come where I found myself being upset that the Religious Right no longer has a foothold over the Republican Party….
….careful what we wish for….
(not my concern for much longer though)
The religious right is very bigoted. And last I checked, there weren’t many minorities represented in the bible belt nor in Dobson’s church.
Christianity, not all but major elements of it, is literally seeking to erase certain groups of people and religions.
The only difference is that Tea Partiers are doing it because of something that happened 200+ years ago (The Constitution) and Christians are doing it because of something that happened 2000+ years ago (Jesus).
Republicans are Republicans for a reason.
A right-winger by any other name would smell as fowl.
is because they act like such dirty pigs.
All along, ever since the teabaggers were bussed from
show to showevent to event to make it look like there were hundreds not tens of them. The backstory is how few there really were and the nagging question of who was funding the “tea party movement”.The tens became hundreds and the Murdock fox channel promoters along with the Kock bros paid to build the visuals. The backstory of numbers kept creeping to the foreground, but would be immediately beat back by the above mentioned along with the usual Sunday talking heads. There could be no story to sell if people really knew the backstory.
So, a few outliers were elected who really were thinking they had independence from the Republicans, even though they ran as Republicans. For the most part Republicans ran for office and won.
Which group is doing the bitching?
You are not hearing from the majority of Republicans who ran and won. You are hearing from the same four or five who were the darlings of fox and kock bros. Which groups are outside whining, the tens who were connived into thinking they really are a “tea party” by the fox and kock bros.
The “tea party” should talk to the far right religion groups about how they run the Republicans. That is the next story.
as the circus of the insanity that is tea baggers will be ostracized.
Froward’s got it! Cut off the corporate funding for this astroturf movement (and put the money back behind Grand Old Rs), and the Tea Party will dry out. ACP is dead, too. Can’t possibly fulfill it’s “major party” obligations.
but that’s exactly what Tancredo has done to ACPers. He’s leaving them stuck with the expense and legal issues of major party status to deal with and no intention of sticking with them and using his national star power to raise the tons of funding they will need to meet their new obligations. What a guy!
that took sure fire victories in Delaware, Nevada and Colorado and handed them to Democrats — and with them control of the Senate?
They were Useful Idiots for the GOP Establishment – a little hard to control, yes, but Dick Armey and his fatcat cohorts figured the tradeoff was worth the enthusiasm.
Now the same fatcat, irresponsible Republicans who presided over the House prior to 2006 will be right back where they were before. Only the names have slightly changed.