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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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
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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
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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January 31, 2011 10:02 PM UTC
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I wrote about this in September, when the Best Practices Commission decided to go forward with this – the full calendar and their presentation is embedded in this story:
http://bit.ly/aQcgtp
It said DNC/RNC rules prohibit caucuses before 1 Mar. That should have said 1 Feb. Several states currently have presidential caucuses/primary during Feb. Colorado did in 2008.
if the last primary season had been shortened?
Having the primary over in June means more nasty general election ads starting in July. Are we ready for negative saturation ads during the dog days of summer?
We’d still be saying Governor Hick. Hick would have just won by a larger margin when the news broke during the general election season about McInnis.
Two months less over which to spread money and ads.
during a heated primary.
I know the turn around for Romanoff supporters to Bennet was tough, as it would have been for Bennet supporters to become Romanoff supporters after that long nasty primary season. Things are still strained between some from each side.
that an earlier primary shortens the season. More likely, the primary season would just start earlier.
And even if the primary season might be shorter, the general season would definitely be longer, and I don’t think that is a net gain.
It needs to be changed to comply with the MOVE Act. I just don’t think it cures anything else.
That was the concern raised by the GOP at the Best Practices meeting in September; the season CAN’T start sooner because the first dates are set by the RNC and the DNC.
Yes, I realize the caucuses, county assemblies and state assemblies set the stage for the high season of the primary. Some races are not on the radar until then.
However, for the big races where most of the money is spent and attention is paid–the “primary season” begins long before the caucuses if the race is going to be contested. If the schedule for caucuses doesn’t change, perhaps you are right. But a shorter time from then to primary might get the big races gearing up earlier before caucuses.
The season can’t start much sooner than State Assembly.
ALways.
ANd the more we have, the better.
The longer they are, the better.
In fact, can’t we be having the next primary now?
n/t
Under the current calendar, parties really scramble to get credentials right for county, district, and state assemblies. If that calendar were condensed by six-weeks, it may prove nearly impossible.
I hope there is a companion bill coming with this change to go to straight primary system, with the candidates petitioning onto the ballot using the current rules. For the presidential election, hold a primary in Feb. and use those results to determine how many national delegates each candidate gets and then hold a state central committee meeting in May to select those delegates.
This process would keep the candidate selection within the party (only Dems can sign Dem candidates’ petitons etc) which is something I will always argue in favor of. And national delegates are something I feel should be done by the people who have invested time and energy into the party, not people who jump on a bandwagon that we will never hear from again after the election.
What about PCPs and platform stuff. Could those all realistically be done at a central committee meeting too?
And since I make it a point to skip central committee meetings, I could probably be off the hook being a PCP for the next two years.
but I’m really looking forward to reorg this weekend.
since I just sit around on the internet and don’t actually affect any real change at all, it’s going to be a really new and different experience.
What politican follows the platform?
Delegates should be elected by registered party members. But they should be elected the party – not the party leadership.
are elected at both CD and state levels. The CD central committees are largely rank and file Dems, not necessarily “leadership”. Actually the same could be said for the State central Committee because of the large number of bonus members there who are otherwise party officers.
I’m all for moving it up. And maybe eliminating caucuses makes sense. But I like them 🙁
If the R’s and D’s have to get their house in order for Colorado to comply with the MOVE act, so be it. I have never been a fan of Colorado’s caucus system.
I think it’s fair to say in heavily contested races we won’t see a great deal of change in the volume of ads and e-mails – only the timing.
Nothing changes except the outcome.