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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
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Governor
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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Michael Bennet
50%
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) Brian Mason
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) George Stern
(R) Sheri Davis
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State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
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State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
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December 15, 2011 05:21 PM UTC
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Least of all because so few confirmed they are willing to serve. If my Jam Jam confirms now I’ll feel like a total ass.
How are you doing down there in AR?
and raining. I’m finding it difficult to not be charitable this morning. So, terrific!
Hope the fam and job are all very well. 🙂
That sounds like the gulf coast. I didn’t know Arkansas had any swampy regions. Or is it just unseasonably warm now?
We’re all doing well, thanks.
I had a friend who lived in Birmingham, AL for a year. I visited him in November over a long weekend (not Thanksgiving – I think it was a week earlier) and was surprised by the warm rain at night. Colorado rain is never warm. But, over the weekend it got cold.
Birmingham’s too far north for a real coastal climate, but it was nice anyway. The trees still had lots of fall color.
I’ve only been through Arkansas once. It was at night, too.
Just stay out of the stores. And cities. The warm rain is a bit odd. It’s usually warm while the rain is here (and muggy during the summer) and then drops ten degrees once it moves out.
I miss the snow and cold! So does the dog.
in January. They currently live part time in Chicago and part time here. Is your weather typical? Because if it is, I’m going to find a way to start visiting them. I had no idea it was so warm in the winter there.
I’m under the impression that it stays fairly warm down there. I don’t remember the winters here, lived in Dallas for most of my childhood when I visited here, which means they probably weren’t dramatic. 🙂
Stay the hell out of there over the summer! It was way over 100 degrees with 99% humidity. Even with the AC (never turns off) on, the freezer doesn’t freeze properly. That’s hot.
Just now considering where you live… and it’s balmy here all winter.
in Arkansas and rock hunting. I remember it being both gorgeous and already really warm. I lived in southern Illinois for four years right on the Mississippi and it was ungodly fucking hot. You would actually sweat while taking a cold shower. Constant humidity nearing 100% with temps sometimes running in the high 90s’ for weeks on end.
So, I’ll be inviting myself for visits in the winter, when it sucks here and is nice there. I’m betting money they will be out here in the summer for the same reasons. 🙂
As a native Coloradan we go to vacation in Arkansas every summer. 30+ years ago my Grandfather bought a time share on lake Hamilton in Hot Springs. We love it. Great downtime vacation. The lake is bath tub warm (think polar opposite of Grand Lake). Nothing to do tourist attraction wise. So sit on the dock, swim, have a cocktail a barbeque and get some good down time. We love it.
He’s overdue.
BTW, overdue is the story of my life. I’m surprised BlockBuster isn’t still in business thanks to my late fees.
Kids library books and DVDs, fuhget about it. No more furlough days for Denver Public Libraries!
Thanks for the vote. You and I have been around here awhile and I always learn from our debates.
Merry Xmas.
And merry Xmas to you, too.
You outed me! Now everyone here knows I’m the coolest man in the world.
That’s alright. It’s hard keeping it a secret.
Kind of hot, too. Good head of hair.
It’s only my most endearing quality.
Great commentary, dry wit, good insights and a good writer.
What more could a blogging community ask for?
Oh, and a moderate to boot.
Mmmmmmm….
Your check (er, loan) is in the mail…
I didn’t even realize I was nominated. I’m sure this isn’t necessary as I have no illusions about the chances of my winning but, for the record, appreciate that someone nominated me but couldn’t accept. I’ve never even tried a diary so the thought of figuring out the technical aspect, even if the level of expertise borders on any idiot could do it, freaks me out. That and the responsisbility. Thanks for thinking of me, though!
You’re always so eloquent when you disagree with me.
I should have been paying more attention but I’ve been in kind of a fog. Participating again after not being able to bring myself to being interested in much of anything for a month has been great therapy for me, though. Once again, sorry I didn’t jump on this so nobody would waste a vote.
I was gonna vote for Pita as my second choice and it looks like Pita will do well anyway. It isn’t the first time I have wasted a vote… probably won’t be the last. 🙂
But I am used to wasting votes for years on whichever sacrificial lamb is put up against the Repubber in CD-5. I even held my nose for Curtis Imrie a couple times.
I do, however, feel much better about wasting a vote on BC than Curtis Imrie
in CD6
whatever the source of the distress you mentioned (none o” my beeswax), I hope things are improving. If you feel like talking about it, I know your many friends and admirers here would be interested in listening.
Either way…my best.
Unexpected, premature death in the family. He felt absolutely fine in August and was gone by the end of October. It’s not going to go away any time soon but we all have our sorrows, don’t we. Here’s wishing nothing but good things in the coming year to all of us who have suffered painful, irreplacable losses.
Losing a loved one sucks horribly. Wishing you good things as you heal.
There are several people here who would help you. If you can post, you can post a diary. The fancy formatting is usually not needed; if it absolutely is, the guvs (or your fellow FPE) will do it for you.
It’s your content and your judgement that people have voted for.
Suck it up!
are bursting with false modesty here. Voyageur an idiot? Yeah right.
than no modesty at all!;-)
Without a violent struggle!!!
Oops.
I voted for Ellie (Pita).
She writes diaries (well, and not often enough)
She pisses off people.
She isn’t bothered that she pisses people off.
To Daftpunk and Car31 and Bluecat — I’m sorry that Alva only let me vote once. (Which makes me wonder why ArapaGOP is permitted to vote so many times for himself?)
And, finally to ArapaGOP, I owe you sincere apologies; reading MichaelEllis makes me realize how very you are from being the worst person ever on this site.
will this be the first time a previous FPE was elected to serve again?
Before anyone says “DavidThi808,” keep in mind that he came in third and Pols gave him the FPE job anyway, despite saying only the top two would get it. I consider him co-opted, not elected, to his second term.
Both Twitty and RSB have been elected more than once as FPE.
on top of the Coup de Dave you’re referring to.
Bwah-hah-hah {cue evil laugh}
Wish we could each vote for two.
Signed,
Triguardian.
I’m glad I’m not going to win, but now I need some GOTV. I can’t tie with ArapaGOOP.
I voted for you. I thought that trend had died with the most recent elections, but no. Sorry.
That said, I’m fairly happy with the results. An embarrassment of riches and such.
No way I am voting for anyone who has ever bullied. We need objectivity and fairness. There are a handful of great choices.
As long as you agree with me and if not, I’ll curse, spit and rant against you until my term expires.
Thanks for your vote.
And reaching across the aisle and compromising and stuff. Bring on the invective of the unstable. Free MichaelEllis!
that the top four contenders are all women. This site used to feel pretty male-dominated, and it looks like that’s improving.
and nobody can stop us.
A MOTR/Pita administration would be balanced, intellectual, and possibly Pols’ first all-lady FPE set.
moderate and conservative Republicans have fallen away. We used to have quite a few who argued their own points, not just the handed down offical points. I guess the poison of the increasingly nasty tempered divide has had its effect here, too. It got harder to be civil to one another. Heck, Romanoff supporters and Bennet supporters can barely stand each other any more and there was a hardly any difference in their mainly centrist positions. Too bad.
I need to know if I’m supposed to be nice to you or not.
I supported Bennet. Should I duck and cover?
I want the people who voted for ArapGOP to out themselves on principal.
But I already posted a diary with my goodbye to the office and anticipation of congratulating MOTR and Ellie!
(OK, I admit it, after diarying I noticed the tie and then refreshed obsessively until 7… but I’m still surprised it came out the way it did.)
Thanks to whichever 19 people thought I did a good enough job to serve back to back. I strongly suspect that if BlueCat had dropped out before election day Ellie would have won, so I certainly would be in support of a do-over if Guvs are interested… though I think that’s been suggested due to one or another similar circumstance for at least the last two elections and has never happened.
(Not knocking Blue. I nominated her, after all. And had she won, I think she’d have gotten talked into serving and done a very fine job.)
Congrats MOTR!
Will someone in GJ please buy Ralphie a drink? He’s going to need it if he has to deal with me for another 6 months =/
And 8 years of W.
You think a lightweight like YOU bothers me?
We do note the close race for second, though, and would like to find a way to acknowledge Pita/Ellie’s strong support. The last time we did that there was some push back, but it may not be the case now. And we are headed into a big election year.
Thoughts? Do we put it to a vote?
but now that it’s precedent, I think this a much more compelling case. See my comment below.
I see no problem with 3 FPEs. Honestly, I’m happy to win (who doesn’t like winning?) but I’d cheerfully step aside to pave the way for Pita’s first term if that’s the easiest solution for you. I’m happy to serve but Ellie/Pita is a MUCH needed new perspective for the front page, and I’d love to see her obliged by duty/guilt to diary more often.
I’m in favor of the 3 FPE proposal, but if you decide against it, please allow me to take back my own vote for myself and reallocate it to Pita. I voted for myself earlier this morning when Blue dropped out and the Pita/MOTR ticket was looking comfortably ahead — didn’t feel like choosing between the two of them and I had something like 10 to Pita’s 16 at the time, and had planned to vote BlueCat until I saw that she’d declined.
It was fun to win back-to-back, but now that I’m over the excitement of the last 15 minutes (Pita’s up 1! I’m up 1! Tied! Repeat!) I feel that Pita is the better choice for the blog in an election year. She would represent not only a more conservative voice (lacking in the last several FPE sets) but also the Western Slope, which she’s uniquely qualified to cover in a depth rarely seen here.
in our shared charter, I nonetheless must support THREE front page editors.
And…ahem…remember where your water comes from. We want a voice dammit!
It worked out great last time 🙂
given our expanding population base . . . as long as none of those hot babes are named after some biblical King. :~)
Hell, if we get another nine, I see the potential for a Colorado Pols calendar.
It wouldn’t be the first time I appeared in a calendar?
…and the other one had to do with a massively nerdy website, too.
(Fully clothed, for your information, perverts.)
except to say, “yes, there’s an app for that.”
http://news.discovery.com/tech…
And, this — never underestimate the perv-quotient of the massively geeky.
I actually look forward to that kind of technology continuing to advance. As soon as it becomes possible (and public knowledge that it is possible) to fake a completely realistic and indistinguishable from the real thing nude photo of anyone you darn well please, maybe the many qualified women currently avoiding public life (whether in business, politics, entertainment, whatever) out of fear that someone will find an old cheesecake photo of them can finally get ahead.
and we can get the real you?
The 3D printing, not the real me.
Not to mention there’s only ONE real me. Accept no substitutes! And make no copies, or if you do don’t ever let the copy meet the original, ’cause I’m pretty sure we’d kill each other in 5 minutes or less.
It’s the Cowgirl nose to nose with Pita, and MotR maintains a comfortable lead. Thirty yards and COWGIRL is pulling ahead and WINS! Cowgirl by a nose.
(The crowd roars)
appears to have taken it in the shorts again, unless MOTR and PGW have creatively disguised their origins.
Some things never change.
Congrats to the winners.
They were going to vote for ArapaGOP but apparently I let them go inactive. Damn that Scott Gessler!
I saw one the other day…
I did not even vote for myself. I voted for Pita.
(Would someone please, quick, check the seals on the voting machines?)
Obviously some of your mail-in ballots were lost in the mail.
(only one vote behind PCG as of 7:30), I think a lot of us could get behind the idea of a third FPE for the semester. As much as I know MOTR and PCG will do a great job, I think we’d benefit from some new representation. And I think there’s a much better case to be made for this bit of promotion than the Coup de Dave, which set this precedent.
Recount, re-run, or 3 FPEs, she deserves her due.
Why not have three?
You are veterans and will do a great job with what promises to be a continuous legislative session in 2012.
To those that supported me, thank you. I plan to be around to post my two cents worth on issues and stories I think are important.
See our update up top; we’ve pulled a good old-fashioned Roosevelt court-packing.
We’re looking forward to this.
Somebody always gets poached by a campaign and feels ethically obligated to resign, so the more the merrier. Don’t get any ideas, FPE-elects! 🙂
And holy crap. An all-girl FPE crew at Colorado Pols? It’s an early Christmas present!
Didn’t expect the decision so quickly! Yay for the packed court — should be a fun early 2012.
By the way, a very important tip: DO NOT GOOGLE “Cowgirls back to back.” Was looking for an image to cockily post to Facebook. NEVER AGAIN.
You KNOW I’m going to google that, and so are a lot of other people…
after turning off safe search completely, I found maybe one image – all the way at the bottom of the search – that I think might account for your dire warning. But nothing like, say, goatse… (if you know what’s good for you, don’t google that one.)
I don’t actually use Google. I just used it as a verb. I hate Google.
But I did get a face full of assless chaps on my work laptop.
I thought, from your tone, that you had found something shocking or gross.
Assless?
I’ll give it my best shot with a lot of help from my friends. 🙂
Marvelous choices everyone.
I’ve been reading this blog since 2007. I think this is hands-down the finest crew of FPEs ever elected. Not to sleight any of the others, but we’ve got experience, intelligent young spunk, and ideological diversity in this batch like never before.
Excellent choices heading into a big year!
Take your places on the dais, ladies!
As for the votes I received, thank you. I appreciate the show of support for diversity of thought. I’ll see you in tomorrow’s spin job! 🙂
AGOP is a loser!
and for voting for Pita.
She will make an excellent FPE–very fair, always respectful in her replies, and extraordinarily knowledgeable about state politics. You picked a good one, ArapGOP.
Congrats to all three of you.
We continue to be represented by excellent choices and good people.
Thanks for the votes, twice as high as my previous record!
And thanks for serving.
This is what I get for going home early to ice my ankle and numb the pain with four Valium.
Especially love the decision to add Pita to our roster. Thank you, thank you, Pols! She is a much needed voice and from a geographically situated part of the state that needs to be heard from more.
Congrats to my two fellow FPEs’, ladies. Well deserved and humbled to be serving along side you both.
Already?
😉
Hope you’re all right! Take care of yourself, owie ankles are not fun!
I was under that impression. Is this correct?
If so, it’s an even greater day for Colorado Pols. Congratulations, and I know some people who like to talk to her! 🙂
But I could be totally wrong. In either case, I believe she’s essentially the classic Colorado Republican — like the old school R’s I grew up looking up to, even as a wee little left wing radical. Definitely a big expansion of the ideological breadth of the FPE contingent regardless of her registered affiliation.
Former Dem way back in the day, usually unaffiliated, sometimes Republican.
Just kidding. Great to have Pita. Also I’d like to both apologize to and thank those who voted for me or thought about it before they knew I wasn’t really in. Nice to feel appreciated. 10% under any circumstances better than I ever would have expected. And with your reelection, PC, I guess well be seeing daily front page diaries on the whole horse slaughter thing? Once again, just kidding. Great panel of FPEs.
No, actually I was thinking of starting a series of selected political events calendars around the Front Range. I feel like I should diary more if you guys have decided you want me around for a full year as FPE…
that is the only explanation for 0% Ellis votes? Stay tuned?
I don’t have time to read through the comments…
I think three editors, permanently, is a good idea.
I have a feeling this blog is only going to get bigger…or..whatever you call it.