U.S. Senate
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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
Governor
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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
60%↑
50%↓
Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
60%↑
40%↑
Sec. of State
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
50%
40%
30%
State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
40%
40%
30%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
90%
20%
20%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 10, 2023 08:25 AM UTC
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Welcome to the new us!
We've got a lot to work on today, so please send us reports about your experience good and bad–especially features from the old experience you want to keep.
Did you eliminate the ability for people to edit their comments?
Shouldn't be gone. There's a little pencil to the right of the date stamp for us. Do you not see it?
Nope … not seeing a pencil Windows 10 / Firefox desktop in use. ublock is off for the site,
Nor do I, Alva.
Nope
Ya know, one possible way to connect replies (I do see they get sorted sequentially under each other) is a thin colored vertical bar attaching the replies. The break would occur with a new standalone post denoting a new comment thread.
Not sure how nested replies would work however. Perhaps the vertical bar could progressively shift to the right to emulate a nested hierarchy, leaving the comments left-justified?
Gotta say, reading a comment thread on a phone is much, much better. Used to be the longer a thread got, the more likely it got that you'd be reading one word per line, and I gave up reading at that point. This is coming from a fictitious blog character who in real life almost always says "change is BAD" while shaking my fist at the sky.
Lookin Good. Happy to be aboard! Toot Toot
Big Line 2024 links to Big Line 2022 November.
Pluses: It's nice to be able to see comments under user accounts. The site looks cleaner, and the irritating yellow-and-purple color scheme is, hopefully, history. Jeffco Pols is back as a tab.
Minuses: My diaries as kwtree are lost, apparently. Also, the ability to edit comments, as others have noted, is gone. I'm using Firefox on a Windows machine at the moment. While I was flattered to be on the "top users" list, it's from a few years back, when Bluecat and Voyageur were frequent posters.
And again, as noted by others, the Big Line tells startling news….from 2022.
Thanks for this feedback, please keep it coming and we're making lots of changes as we encounter issues.
Check out the functions available from the My Account page, accessible under your handle in the main menu:
https://www.coloradopols.com/my-account
We are working on a large number of changes and enhancements as we roll out the new design, so please continue to provide detailed feedback.
I just checked "My Account" and while "Diaries" lists 5 of mine, that's all it is — a list. I can't access them or the extended text in the Description field.
Just checking out the changes and commenting to see if my avatar appears.
Lovin' the new look!
Lovin' this a little less. With Cornel West deciding to leave the Green Party alone and run his grift as an independent, Jill Stein will take another run at the Green nomination. Gear up for Jilliots 2.0!
Also, any analysis/wild speculation as to: (1) whether/when Joe Manchin will announce his "sensible centrist" POTUS campaign; and/or (2) which drooling trumpanzee maniac West Virginia will send to the U.S. Senate in his stead?
I posted this late yesterday G, but maybe there's hope. Zachary Shrewsbury is running as a Dem in West Virginia, and he actually looks interesting as an ex-Marine with progressive values. Of course I have zero idea how this will play out in the race. The only thing I know about West Virginia is that John Denver said it was almost heaven in "Country Roads." But check him out: https://www.shrewsburyforsenate.com/
Thanks for the heads-up, 2Jung. I grew up in eastern Ohio and got to know a fair number of West Virginians back in the day. The folks I knew were largely crazy fundy wingnuts on one hand, and radical leftie environmentalists/workers' rights advocates on the other, based on the horrific shit the coal companies did to their towns and families.
The drooling Trumpanzee maniac West Virginia sends to the US Senate goes by the name of Jim Justice. He was first elected governor of West Virginia in 2016 as a Democrat. (IIRC, he was recruited by Manchin to run.) He then promptly changed parties and has been a Trump acolyte ever since.
Justice digs coal …. figuratively and literally. In 1993, he inherited the family coal business although when his dad died. Jim Justice – Wikipedia
Justice did sell off some of the business to the Russian company Mechel in 2009. (I'm guessing that if elected, he will oppose US support for Ukraine. But that's just speculation on my part.)
Last spring, he got in trouble with the DOJ. Justice Department sues West Virginia governor's coal empire seeking unpaid fines | CNN Politics I'm sure, he has or will declare it to be nothing more than a Witch Hunt.
Justice still needs to defeat Alex Mooney (although polls show him easily beating Mooney in the Republican primary). While Mooney may not be able to defeat Justice in the primary, Mooney does lose narrowly to Manchin in a general election match up.
Manchin may have quit too early. While Justice will almost certainly be the GOP nominee, he is over 70 and morbidly obese. I don't mean to sound morbid, but should Justice's health give out, Manchin would have a path to re-election.
Instead, it looks like he is going to do his listening tour to see if there is a groundswell of support for his candidacy as the No Labels nominee for president.
So, come November 2024, the Republicans will have Trump as their candidate while the non-Republicans will have a smorgasbord of options ranging from Manchin in the middle, Biden to the center left, and Jill Stein and Cornel West fighting it out for the hard left.
Jill Stein has lost some lustre among progressives after showing herself as a willing tool of Putin’s. Once burned, twice shy.
Okay. I found a flaw. Clicking on a comment won't take you to it. The address bar appears at the bottom left of the page, but the site doesn't go there.
I don't like change… But the nrew design is much more professional and attractive.
I would prefer that the first paragraph (up to xx number of words) appear in the feed.
This is going to take some getting use to ……
Just a couple of suggestions/comments. BTW — I'm a desktop user (Windows 10/Chrome), but also occasional iPad user. I logged in and was fortunately able to recreate my avatar. It would be nice to see on the home page under each diary's title sheet the number of new comments. E.g. Thursday's thread has a lot of new posts since I last logged in, but you wouldn't know that unless you drilled down into the actual thread. I like to revisit recent threads if there is something new, but at least for now, the page performance is pretty slow, so plowing back through the threads only to see nothing new is tedious.
Also, so far it appears the connection between posts and replies is broken, so it is difficult to follow the thread. Perhaps they are sequenced properly, but for now I'm not sure when someone responds "Indeed", who that might be in response to. But I understand, the indentation is a problem for phone users, so if that is the trade-off, so be it.
Also, FYI — There is just the "Reply" button on my first post, so I don't have a means of editing an existing comment. But at least I get to see how replies like this might display in the thread 🙂
The new site is worlds better. The UX is a lot cleaner and the styling is really good. Congrats.
New UI. Who dis?
She's B-A-C-K!
Jill Stein launches a long-shot Green Party presidential campaign, bringing back memories of 2016 (msn.com)
Maybe she'll have Ralph Nader as her running mate.
I've now saved an image for my account three times …. it SAYS it is saved. The file name appears on my profile. But no image accompanies my comments.
It's because You Ugly!
Could well be that I'm ugly … but a chose a picture featuring a cute dog, so there's a balance.
Hate the new design.
Not as compact as the old.
Cannot edit.
My name links to my bogus facebook account. Why?
My avatar appears here but is blank on my account page.
Why is there a link to Xitter and none for Mastodon at the top of the thread?
You do realize that Elmo is a Jew-hater?
Issues I've seen (and I suggest you have a separate thread for issues):
Some users (DaveBarnes, DavidThi808) must have URLs in their Account settings, because (so far) only they have links from their comments to their respective pages (Dave's FB page, and David's Liberal and Loving It blog. Hovering over their names in the thread turns their names Yellow and allows me to follow the link.
I was initially successful in setting my avatar. Oddly, however, when I go to my account page, it shows nothing in the avatar settings. I noticed that after setting my avatar, and then the page returned as if nothing was actioned. Only after I posted a comment did I know that I had, in fact, set my avatar. It's the one I want, so I don't plan to change it and see what else that might break.
One more fun fact — I checked my comments, and it starts from Day Zero (2008 for me). Clicking the up or down arrow to resort them only seems to work on the current page. It says I have about 3,300 comments in the past 15 years, so finding out who replied to a recent comment will be a looong process. There is no "advance to end" option that I can see.
I don't like how the comment history works either, Harry. One solution might be to list them in reverse order so that recent comments appear first. That would make it easier to check for replies in contemporary threads.
Yes, that's how it was in the old blog. I believe it also supported notifications when someone replied to your comments, although I never enabled that feature (I get too many emails as it is).
Trying to inject a video (if you get a video – yah this is working):
The above is supposedly the movie scene with the largest number of major movie stars of any movie ever.
I do love a good Bollywood dance scene. And was that a gay couple there? Wow.
No threading–can't tell how posts are related.
Don't like how diary highlights just because cursor is on it
Right side scroll thing is whisker thin and disappears on my monitor.
Fixing comment reply threading is a top priority along with restoring full-length posts to the category pages.
UPDATE: We've submitted a long list of fixes to our developers and are awaiting the results. Please continue to provide feedback on your experience and we are working to respond as quickly as possible. Watch for significant changes over the next few days as we adapt our theoretical redesign to the real world.
And thanks for your continued support! We'll have it all ironed out shortly.
Congrats re: the transition to new website format…Lloyd