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Governor
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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Jena Griswold
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
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Sec. of State
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(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
60%
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20%
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*
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90%
2%
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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90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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40%
40%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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5%
December 17, 2024 12:56 AM UTC
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Rose-colored glasses to be sure, but this story points out that Ds could've retaken the House with just 7,309 total votes among 3 congressional districts – one of them our good ol' CO-8. Gotta gettit done in two years!!!
Watching the Democratic Party flail about since Trump's election win last month has been both disconcerting and discouraging. Schumer and Durbin give up on the appeals court nominees without any apparent effort to wrangle the votes from members of their own party, sympathetic words from Fetterman for nutty Trump nominees are heard, criticism of Trump is largely muted, and, today, a 74-year old cancer patient is given the minority gavel on House Oversight instead of a young, dynamic, capable, talented woman.
Here in Colorado I saw Polis' absurd circular saw stunt in his office with the old executive orders. What, exactly, was the point of that bit of theatrics, which does nothing to indicate that he is going to prepare this state to address the decimation of environmental standards Trump and his people will no doubt push. And, of course, Polis has actively tried to kiss up to Trump, both during his first term and, lately, by saying nice things about that idiot RFK, Jr.
The other executive branch officials here are little better. Griswold seems less capable than I had thought, Weiser is secretive and, as near as I can tell, is generally unwilling to use his position to advance or safeguard environmental protection as he said he would, and who even knows what Dave Young does.
I've reached my limit of patience with the Democrats. Today, after 43 years as a registered Democrat, I changed my registration to "unaffiliated." I have no confidence that Democrats will protect us from fascism or authoritarianism, which Trump is going to try to impose.
So, unaffiliateds are going to protect us from fascism and authoritarianism? I'm seriously interested in how that's going to work, with no organization, no platform, no fundraising, no coherent identity.
BTW – I probably share some of your concerns about the actual people you mentioned here, but must say I'd rather have a treasurer who's not in the news than a treasurer who is in the news.
No, but the hope would be that as the Democratic party loses membership to Unaffiliated that they would wake the hell up. I'm not holding my breath, as they seem much more interested in courting republicans that don't like them, but that would be the hope.
I hear you burly, I just think it's too early to give up hope. Ds picked up 41 House seats in the 1st Tr*mp-era mid-term, 2018. It's quite normal for the party in power to lose seats in the mid-term. For that reason alone, I don't want to see people pull support from the Ds and make it easier for Rs to prosper, and I know I'm a broken record here but the Democratic Party is still the only organized and sizeable force in existence able to go toe to toe with the Rs right now, warts and all. Harris only lost by 1.5% in the popular vote, and picking up 3 seats would flip the House.
I still vote for Democrats. And even with the optimistic outlook you lay out here I am still frustrated by the constant shift to the right that the D's think will get them into power. If the Democrats end up being Reaganite Republicans, then we haven't really won anything.
I am tired of investing money (thousands of dollars over the years) and hope in a party that consistently proves itself utterly clueless about how to meet the needs of voters, how to respond to voter desires, and how to respond to Republican BS.
I've seen this movie over and over since Reagan days. And the reruns are old.
Being unaffiliated does not mean that I disavow all or even any Democratic policy goals. It means I no longer want to be identified as an official member of that party or any other. Just like the other 40% or so of Coloradoans who have made the same choice.
I'm not certain how many Coloradans are making a choice and how many simply let things happen in the voter registration process, but going into the 2024 general election, the state's active voter registrations were Democrats 26.05%, Republicans 23.30%, and UAF 48.39%.
If losing members would bring the Democratic party to a different approach, surely it would have happened with the loss of over 80,000 registrations and 4% share of registrations between the elections of 2020 and 2024. If ending personal giving would, 2024 individual giving of $729,644, about $60,000 less than 2020 (diminished even more by the effects of 21.9% inflation) would have drawn attention.
I can understand the disappointment and the disillusionment. My take: when voices in favor of change disappear and the institutional voices who want more of the institutional response remain, chances of reform diminish. Less money does not encourage experimentation with new approaches to appealing to voters.
That's a good point. The Democrats do seem hell bent on preserving the status quo though. Connolly getting the house oversight position is a very hard pill for me to swallow, and just shows me that the Dem leadership could not care less about what the constituents actually want.
You might be right about that. But throwing more good money after bad, and continuing to intellectually and even emotionally invest in a party that simply does not learn is not the answer, either.
I return to my comment about Polis as in illustration. I get that he seems relatively popular among all Coloradoans. But I do not understand why. The guy does social media performative crap and very little meaningful to make people's lives better or address Colorado's problems. He seems to me like the very model of an empty suit. And there's no shortage of others like him in the Democratic party.
Admittedly, there are some very strong and very effective Democratic politicians in office around the country. But not enough. Not any more.
It was a miter saw. All I could think is what a shitty thing to do to the cleaning staff. But people like that are invisible to billionaires.