CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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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
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
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State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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REPUBLICANS
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November 16, 2011 08:35 PM UTC
39 Comments
Oh wait. I’m not a Republican. Never mind
Truth be told, I wouldn’t mind seeing Gilpin County not be part of HD 25. We like it north of I-70.
If we are not going act like Democrats, let’s not run as Democrats. The Republicans have understood for years that the courts is where all there heavy decisions would be made.
Why aren’t Dems smart enough to figure this out?
since the CSC will be hearing it
that referring to Hickelooper as a Democrat doesn’t fall under the category of “fiction”.
His decisions, of late, have been VERY (yes, I’m shouting) disappointing. I would rather see Andrew Romanoff lead a recall against Gessler and then primary that oil and gas guy in the governors’ mansion the next go around.
Whattaya think, Andrew? :)…could it be Governor Romanoff someday?
that he had the chance. He should have taken it while it was open. At least Romanoff would have been reliably liberal on at least a few things, like, say, appointing judges or people to the health care board.
Obviously a lot of people have trouble distinguishing between a Republican 1%’er & a Democratic 1%’er.
the newest justice didn’t participate in the decision.
You are able to criticize and judge an individual for words he hasn’t spoken yet, but you know he will in the future.
Pretty amazing. You got a question answering 8 ball thingy or something?
And any Democrat or Republican that trust the other side to give you an upper hand is, well, childish at best.
So you’re only making assumptions based on a case in an unrelated court to determine what a Colorado judge will do in the future.
You should get an 8 ball thingy. Would be more accurate for you.
You are saying that you believe a Democratic Judge will vote to give Republicans the upper hand? or vise versa?
I would be curious as to how many people agree with that….
Especially for Summit and Eagle
I am BEGGING everyone here – does anyone know if there are going to be reapportionment hearings??? Please let me know, as I gotta get there for it
Thank you all!
The new map has to be finished by December 6.
They have to get this whole thing done AND approved by the Court in 3 weeks and a major travel holiday falls int he middle of that time.
Do you guys disagree?
I think it would look bad, press wise, to go sketch more maps, without any public input?
to reflect any meetings or other proceedings. Seems to me folks could still email information and statements to the Commission reapp2011@state.co.us but I certainly don’t know if anything would be considered from the public at this point. Anyone here know?
Could you please post that website?
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Sat…
http://www.colorado.gov/reapportionment
The very reasons why you want one, is reason won’t they have one. Everyone with any gripe against the submitted maps would want to have their issue addressed.
The Commission is very, very likely to only address the issues the Court found objectionable. Namely, the unnecessary county splits.
If I had to hazard a guess, in addition to rearranging Jeffco and Arapahoe, which the Court specifically addressed, I would think the Commission would have to also address the slpits in Montezuma, San Miguel, Mesa, Elbert, and maybe Garfield and Eagle (except those last two are highly defendable in my opinion).
I have not read the decision, but the news mentioned the Court had issues with the way Colorado Springs was cut. So there will also need to be discussed.
Mesa County is too big for one HD.
The trouble with what they did in Mesa County is that they used city limits in places, not census blocks. City limits are just snapshots in time. Census blocks are much easier to deal with from the point of view of a propeller-head GIS guy like me. But I guess it’s not really my problem.
Regarding Eagle – it is ridiculous to lump Gypsum and the Town of Eagle with the Roaring Fork Valley – I’m fine with Basalt going to a separate district (thereby dividing Eagle) but Gypsum and Town of Eagle as well??? That was a gigantic mistake
In addition, I also think it was a gigantic mistake to swap Eagle out of Senate District 8 and replace it with Summit – that move, alone, creates two monstrous districts that are difficult to get around, whereas SD16 and SD8 previously were much easier to manage before
Good opinions, but nothing invested.
I love where I’m from
I think that’s plenty to justify why I’m “invested” in making sure their future is filled with good representation
was that the only to access it was from Pitkin County and that the mountains cut off that corner from the rest of the county.
I am not familiar with the corner of the county so I can’t speak to the merit of the argument, but that was reason given by the Commission for doing it.
Alex – that is true for El Jebel and Basalt but not Eagle and Gypsum
Eagle and Gypsum are on the I70 corridor, not far at all from Vail
I suspect that the Commission didn’t take many road trips throughout Colorado
If they don’t have at least one public hearing, they risk administrative procedure act challenges to the map.
But, it could be almost a foregone conclusion at that point.
Drawing statewide maps is not an easy task.
I’d also guess that many segments of the approved map would remain unchanged, with probably only the metro area being adjusted.
They make it more difficult than it should be because while they are supposed to make the constitutional criteria priority number one we all know that the political make-up of each district is really the top priority.
The court certainly held that counties needed to be kept intact, but the importance of this ruling relates to the court’s discussion of competitiveness in relation to the constitutional criteria:
(emphasis added). The court basically said that the Constitutional criteria must be met before they can consider competitiveness. This is really what the holding is about.
(The legislative redistricting has similar rules to court-ordered Congressional map-making. But the Congressional maps arguably do a much better job at meeting the requirements, and so competitiveness is a legitimate consideration.)
I think that is a fair reading of what happened with Congressional redistricting.
Also, it seems like the framework for Congressional redistricting is looser.
At the court level Congressional redistricting is supposed to have all of those guidelines applied – exact population match, geopolitical boundaries, communities of interest. But while it’s in the hands of the legislature, they can be a lot more flexible.
I thought that the criteria enumerated in the constitution applied to reapportionment, but that the neutral criteria used in redistricting was based on common law factors.
Is that correct?
What makes you think the court will like your congressional gerrymander any better?
Great news.
Other than that, feel free to go on in your own reality as if everything that happens meets your artificial reality perceptions.
are you going to cry about activist judges? Big wet sloppy cry baby tears?
out of Arapajoke.
I guess I can understand it. They don’t have any new ideas and the last three decades of Trickle on Me economics and cut cut cuting government has been an unmitigated disaster for this country.
True competition is the very last thing that cowards like Arapajoke want. They want to be in “safe” districts where red meat is the only thing that voters get. No wonder they are running scared from competitive districts.
Republicans: The party of cowards.