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
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State House Majority
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95%
5%
January 04, 2012 03:37 PM UTC
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that I will never get back were spent way back when Googling Savage’s Santorum to be certain it hit #1 on the googlometer. Worth every minute.
1. There is a core of evangelical tea-partiers who comprise about half of Republicans, maybe a bit more in Iowa. They are a fickle lot. St. Santorum was flavour of the hour on Tuesday. He doesn’t have the $$$ (nor will he get the corporate big bucks that will determine the next president) or the appeal, to last beyond South Carolina. This entire process is about money, nothing else. The voting is a mere formality.
2. Tuesday’s jamboree was about choosing Mr. Iowa. It told us nothing about the viability of any would-be presidential candidate. It confirmed Iowa’s cherished status as a hick state where time stands still…or goes in reverse. I was surprised that Dwight Eisenhower didn’t win on a write-in.
Dwight was a self proclaimed liberal. He was courted by both parties to run. He wouldn’t even be considered a good moderate Republican by today’s definition and moderate is anathema in today’s GOTP. If the very worst we ever had to fear from GOP victories was another President Eisenhower, I’d rest pretty easy. Would still vote for the Dem so no rolling over Grandma and Grandpa, but wouldn’t become anywhere close to despondent.
If Ike was a liberal, what was Adlai?
Of course, the Democrats of the 1950s weren’t quite the same party as they are today. I seem to recall that “filibuster” was pronounced with a distinctly Southern accent by Democrats with names like Thurmond and Stennis prior to Nixon’s 1968 Southern Strategy … or was it after the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
My point … and yes, I was kidding about Eisenhower … was that the imaginary era of the 1950s lives on, nearly as well preserved as Lawrence Welk during PBS fundraising marathons, or as films featuring John Wayne or Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, or the sentiments of Joe McCarthy, all dedicated to preserving the Great American White Way. Let’s vote in the Iowa caucus and then dance a polka! A one and a two and a ….
There was such a thing as too conservative and liberal was not a dirty word. Most pols didn’t want to be considered too leftie or too reactionary. They tended to find success being seen as fairly moderate and sensible, not extreme, maybe on the liberal side or the conservative side but certainly able to work out compromises with those on the other side.
Both parties had liberal and conservative wings. Southern conservative Democrats and northeastern Rockefeller liberal Republicans, for instance, with lots of gradations in between on both sides.
Yes, Grasshopper, it was a different world but not in the way today’s version of the GOP wants us to believe. They would not be at all happy to find themselves exiting a time machine in the landscape of 50s politics and they would certainly not find a very friendly welcome from their own party or most ordinary people.
Most people in the Leave it to Beaver era generally believed that those who differed with them were still well meaning, patriotic Americans who wanted what was best for the country and simply disagreed with them on how to get there. Therefore compromise was not just possible but absolutely necessary and civilized. Today’s GOTPers wouldn’t know how to act.
Few things stir the soul as does the sight of republican blood…especially when it is let by another republican.
Aside…one statistic I thought was telling is the comparison of actual votes Romney got in ’08 with those he got in ’12. As I recall, he got about 5 or 6 votes fewer than last time. In four years, he didn’t convince anyone to change their minds…or at least not enough to make up for the ones that died in the last four years.
over a bunch of fucking crazy people, after esentially a 7 year campaign and a gazillion dollars.
They love you Mitt ! Its a mandate !
Ron Paul will not do well in South Carolina; he might do okay in New Hampshire, though. In the end, Paul just doesn’t appeal to enough core Republican voters to win the race.
It will be fun watching Gingrich go after Romney; Paul, too, I think expects Romney to be his toughest opponent and will continue to concentrate firepower that direction. This probably won’t affect New Hampshire much, unless Gingrich really pulls out some big guns against Multiple-Choice Mitt.
This leaves Santorum in a good position to capitalize in time for South Carolina, where he could theoretically win the caucus with a significant margin. But don’t expect Santorum to be huge in the Granite State, though he’ll undoubtedly get a boost from Iowa.
Gingrich’s remaining contribution is, I think, in taking Romney down a peg or two. Bachmann would do well ideologically to endorse Santorum now that she’s out of the running.
clearly preferred the husband candidate to the submissive wife candidate, not that she should find that surprising given that that’s her crowd. First they deserted her for Perry, then for the another white Christian rightie male. What a shocker.
to the will of the Iowa voters, just the way that God intended . . .
and her not-gay husband.
They’re dressed better than in that infamous photo taken when he lost his Senate seat over five years ago.
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A state that has voted Democratic in Presidential elections 5 out of 6 times since ’88? One that gave Obama 54% of the vote last time around? A state that has legalized gay marriage?
A state that is roughly split three ways with regard to R/D/I identification?
A state that was 61% urban in the ’00 census and showed double digit population growth in all major population centers in the ’10 census due to increased corporate farming and decreased manufacturing jobs in its small towns due to the down economy?
That’s a “deeply socially conservative rural state”? What does that make Colorado–Western Appalachia?
It’s amazing you can make such a sweeping generalization based on hard core GOP voters–a very small (approximately 125,000 out of 3 million) segment of the population.
I stand corrected.
that 30,000 have registered as R since ’08
From 2010…
12/11 numbers
Active: 613521(R) 645475(D) 717890(I)
Inactive: 29182(R) 39521(D) 63670(I)
What exactly is your point?
thanks for the info
BTW–the 125,000 number is the approximate number of votes cast yesterday in the GOP caucus. The hardest of the hardcore, the wingiest of the wingnuts.
Funny how the get all the attention. I’m still trying to find turn-out numbers (or any story) on the Democratic caucus yesterday.
noted in the diary with the map of Iowa, is that when there were 47% reporting, 57% were men. I don’t think that kind of differential would have evened out over the night. Yet, in the real election women vote at a rate as high, or higher, than men
but based on my experience its probably the opposite in the Democratic caucus. More women than men.
Religion/societal mores/believe that its the mans role in that subset of the population? Look at Bachmann, she’s stated that her duty is to be subservient to Marcus(!).
White, 50+, male. The GOP is pretty top heavy to that end.
was about 25,000, I heard on a talk show today. Haven’t looked for a story on that.