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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) David Seligman
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
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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*
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
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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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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
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Bad news.
https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings
Colorado moves right.
I doubt that.
The Colorado Republican Committee raised $85k in July & ended the month with $213k in cash, the lowest election-year total for that month since 2016.
Alex Wagner, MSNBC’s new primetime anchor, featured some disturbing news from Florida about the teaching of revisionist history. Teachers were trained over the summer in DeSantis-sponsored “Civics Literacy Excellence Initiative”. Teachers are supposed to downplay the role of slavery in the American colonies, and portray the founders ( almost all slaveholders) as wannabe abolitionists. The “civics initiative” also insists that teachers frame the United States as a Christian nation, downplaying or ignoring the very clear Constitutional language about the separation of church and state.
I’m currently tutoring adults on high school equivalency exams. Prepping for the Social Studies Exam, It’s been a joy to teach and talk about civics, including the Bill of Rights,and other amendments, and how our government works, with people who are directly affected, vote, and curious about it.
It would be horrifying to have to teach lies and half truths instead, to perpetuate ignorance instead of dispelling it. I’m sure teachers are leaving Florida in droves.
One interesting thing about the growth of slavery in America is at the time of the revolution a fair number of leaders in the South viewed it as a necessary evil. They at least paid lip service to the fact that it was wrong and some freed their slaves.
By the time of the Civil War the belief in the South was almost unanimous that it was a good thing for both whites & blacks. And it was illegal to free your slaves.
Why did this happen – there's lots of theories.
What’s your favorite theory about that?
Mine is that the church, specifically Southern Baptists, failed to take the moral high ground. The SBs only publicly renounced their support for slavery and segregation in 1995.
Frederick Douglass had some choice words about that.
The main cause for the support of slavery was Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1794.
Without the gin, cotton wasn’t very profitable.
With it, fortunes could be made. But you still needed slaves to plant, cultivate and pick it.
One slave working ten hours could clean one pound of cotton a day.
Two workers on a gin could clean 50 pounds of cotton in that same ten hours.
The gin made cotton king. And that required millions of slaves.
Are you surprised that white southerners decided slavery was a good thing after it made them rich?
How many coal mine owners accept the theory of global warming despite the overwhelming proof?
I'm sure they are.
DeSantis is replacing them with soldiers.
My attention to things Colorado this morning came up with The Atlantic article:
Political trivia question of the day – who did FDR say were the three most dangerous men in America?
Wasn't that his famous Martin, Barton and Fish?
Nope (and you'll kick yourself when I list them).
Douglas MacArthur and Huey Long come to mind, but I'm not coming up with a third.
An often told tale has an aide suggesting Huey Long was the most dangerous man in America, with FDR replying no, MacArthur was. But that’s not three. You could add Charles Lindbergh.
But as a trio, that doesn’t work. Huey died in 1935, well before Lindbergh’s pro Hitler activities posed a major threat.
Earlier in his presidency FDR ended a call and told someone in his office that he just got off the call with one of the three most dangerous men in America.
When asked who the three were, he said Douglass MacArthur, Huey Long, & Father Coughlin (the call was with MacArthur).
Thanks, man. Not knowing that third name would have driven me nuts (or nuttier than usual).
Pretty much forgotten today, Coughlin, the “radio priest” was the Rush Limbaugh of his day.
How do State legislative candidates break through the noise to get there message across? There are so many political stories, ads, videos, etc. for races that are viewed as much more important. Most voters don't even know who their state legislators are.
How in all this do they get people to pay attention to their race? Seems like it's almost impossible to get any attention in all the other stuff.
Door by door, plus working county fairs and other events. Personal contact is vital.
V's right. There's even a phrase for it "retail politics".
For real. Dianne Primavera, our current lieutenant governor and my all-time fav state legislator, got herself elected to the state House of Reps four times from a district that started red and got increasingly bluer (thanks largely to Dianne's efforts) through hard goddamn work, including knocking on every door in the district.
Oh god that's right. I can remember doing that for my mom. She was a machine hitting every door in her district over the election period. And then we all put in days doing it too.
It was exhausting.
Um, Obviously: the Boebert strategy succeeds in getting press and attention.
Far and away, the local races turn on human contact.
Candidates at the doors is probably the gold standard. Already-known neighbors who urge attention to the race and vouch for the candidates are good — depending on the credibility of that already-known neighbor. Candidates showing up for local events (or staging some of their own helps.
Scott Galloway *nails* it today…
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How disappointing to learn that CNN has canceled “Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter.”
This show made a good faith attempt to analyze how the media should operate in an era where the “media is the enemy of the people”. Especially looking at the “both sides” dilemma when the GOP is clearly anti-democracy and pro lying all of the time.
I understand that CNN has somehow been taken over by conservatives.
I bemoan the loss, through political assassination, talented voices such as Al Franken, Charlie Rose, even Chris Cuomo. And the voluntary resignation of Jon Stewart. Those, like all good communicators are not easily replaced.
And I bemoan the fact that our elections will be hijacked by GOP legislators. This could have been prevented by the Senate passing Voting Rights legislation but for the filibuster supported by our own John Hickenlooper.
Our democracy has never been at greater risk. I wonder if twenty years from now Michael Bennet (a really good guy) and
Hickenlooper (not so much) will be writing books, a la McNamara, how they should have done more to save American democracy.
Democracy. Pass it on.
There are lots of reasons you might not support Hickenlooper … so it would pay to get things right.
Hickenlooper Press Release, Dec. 15, 2021: ‘It’s Time to Change the Filibuster to Protect Voting Rights’
Hickenlooper co-sponsored 3 voting rights bills and urged their passage. VOX explained the failure:
Thanks for the information, John. I appreciate it and stand corrected. My views were based on viewing two or three Hickenlooper Zoom town halls where he was very wishy washy about overturning the filibuster specifically for voting rights legislation. I also had a conversation with Michael Bennet where he acknowledged that Hickenlooper was sketchy about his stance, but thought that Hick would end up on the right side. It's good to learn that Hick did end up supporting ending the filibuster for voting rights legislation.
Also, I'm still heartsick that Reliable Sources has now had its final show. We need every avenue available to spotlight the impending loss of our democracy before it's too late.
I think Hick started off with a belief/wish that the filibuster would do what people said … encourage caution and compromise, probably leading to incremental steps in the direction of the majority's position.
After a year, I think he was facing the current usage — lock step to block nearly anything the majority wanted and could claim credit for. The Senate about to surpass last session's record pace of 328 motions for cloture — already at 305, and something like 10 or 12 weeks Senate floor work to go before the session ends.
Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a working majority building to further erode chances to filibuster on particular legislative topics (Manchin & Sinema say no) or simply entirely end the tradition/rule and let the majority rule (M&S and probably some others would oppose). Nor does there appear to be uniform support for any particular type of reform ("talking" filibuster, limited numbers of filibusters in a term, going back to the days of a single calendar meaning a filibuster shut EVERYTHING down, or whatever).