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%
March 26, 2021 09:05 AM UTC
19 Comments
I'll admit that I haven't studied this too hard, but I don't see what's the angle on this Medicaid expansion tantrum? I understand it as partisan grandstanding, for a while, but we usually don't see that sort of thing sustained this long without an actual (campaign funding) costituency behind it.
Standard for expansion would be the Federal government paying 90% and the state paying 10%. And the ratio can go up in the coming years. That would mean finding the money to pay somehow. Which would mean increasing state taxes (of some sort), as Missouri, like most states, already has a tight budget. Republican spin — "my constituents" (often rural voters) would have to pay more for "them" (all of the eligible Medicaid population) to get care.
Right. I think I knew that at some point.
Election math 101:
All of the voters=%100
More than %50 is a majority
%53 is more than %50
%53 of eligible voters = a majority
actually, 53 percent of votes cast is a majority. That might be just 30 pct of eligible voters, if 49 pct of those eligible don't actually vote.
Now you know that Republicans haven't gone that far in school to do that kind of hard math.
The angle of the tantrum is directly proportional to the racist hatred and fear of Obama(care) . . .
That and the general fear and loathing of poor people.
Without a strong work requirement, Medicaid expansion feels like just more free stuff. If they cannot pay for health insurance and medical services, they should not get them.
Even if someone somewhere says 53% of the voters approved. Democracy isnot about majority rule (see Sirota in the Guardian today).
Yep. But, let’s not forget that whenever someone’s speaking Missouri GOPer, “poor people” is clearly intended to mean, well, you know which people are being loathed, not just in general but very specifically . . .
Frankly I think it is refreshing that the GOP no longer even pretends to care about democracy, intellectual consistency, etc.
Maybe the Dems can stop pretending that they are negotiating with a counterpart in mutual good faith, and finally start acting like they are in an existential struggle with a fascist death cult that will say or do anything, and would be perfectly willing to literally kill their opponents en masse.
I think for the most part, Dems have stopped acting as if Repugs are capable of acting in good faith. I feel better about the current approach than I felt about the approach Dems took 12 years ago.
Good. Because Greg Palast was writing about these GOP efforts to steal elections back before 2000, and the mainline Dems were weirdly passive the entire time.
The passivity after Bush v Gore has hopefully run out, ending perhaps when Obama let McConnell steal a SCOTUS appointment without much more than a whimper.
I think the Former guy might have cured them of their passivity.
Seems reminiscent of the Florida election to allow offenders to vote after they completed their sentence, which passed by something like 65%-35%. Then, Republicans in the legislature and the Republican governor defined "completed" to include paying all costs. There was no enabling legislation to mandate how the costs were to be calculated, how a freed person could find out what costs applied, and (if I remember correctly) having some Republicans point out there were no provisions to ensure "public servants" actually implemented the citizen's initiative. And keeping laws in place to say those who voted and then found out they were ineligible were guilty of a felony. And that for many offenders, if they were guilty of another felony, they could fall afoul of the "three strikes" sentencing provisions of Florida law.
Daytona Beach newspaper wrote
It would seem that American “politics” has reached it’s zenith? . . .
. . . It’s American democracy that’s in the shitter.
Missouri does seem to be a scaled-down version of what we are dealing with as a country. Nationally, with the Senate, the Electoral College, and gerrymandering, rural voters' (mostly white) votes count more than votes from urban centers (more likely to be POC).
Missouri went 57% Trump, 41% Biden. The state legislature is 71% R, in the state Senate, and 70% R in the statehouse. For comparison, Colorado went 55/42 Biden over Trump, and our legislature is 57% D/ 43% R in the Senate and 63% D/ 37% R in the statehouse.
If all votes count, Dems win. For Repubs to win, they have to make sure the system only counts their (white) votes.
No to worry. They will have a new governor soon. And He knows how to fix stuff and make people do what he wants.
Really hard to swallow what happened in Georgia this week, and the purely blatant nature of it is so damn frustrating. As the Boss once so aptly sang, one step forward, two steps back…
I believe there is a 10 minute moment of silence for each of the ten victims of the King Soopers shootings tomorrow night at 8, and our fam is definitely going to participate just to reflect.
Purely a shit week, but hope springs eternal. Good weekend fellow polsters.