President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
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20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
60%
40%
State Senate Majority
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April 20, 2007 11:07 PM UTC
31 Comments
How lazy are the voters, they only need to use a pen and go to the mail box.
Why waste the $0.63, or is it $0.87 (since I live in the burbs, I wouldn’t know) if you live in one of the seven or eight council district that have no seriously contested races?
…just in case the next election matters.
Plus…..you live the ‘burbs?! Clutch the pearls….
The city & the media really haven’t done much to let people know there an election going on. It also wouldn’t have hurt the Mayor to have done one of his goofy TV spots letting people its an all mail ballot this year.
of the city or the media to do marketing for an election? Time for the individual voters to stand up and take responsibility and vote. It doesn’t get any simpler than this.
Would you rather have a 60% turn-out of voters who randomly check boxes, or a 30% turn-out of somewhat educated voters?
I don’t blame the average voter for being lackadaisical about turning in their ballot. Most people are still hung-over from the November elections and already feeling overwhelmed from 2008. Without media playing a roll, people are happy to skip this election.
then yes the city has the responsibility to make sure people are well informed of the change. Sending out one letter wont cut it. Any mail vendor will tell you that just doing one single mailing is just like throwing your money away it has no impact. And the TV news is responsible for providing civic awareness as part of their use of the airwaves.
I wonder why there are so many yard signs all over… maybe there is an election
Can Hick roll over any surplus mayoral campaign funds towards a U.S. Senate campaign account should he decide the give Udall a challenge? Just wondering…..
I think they have to stay in their “class”. For example, Romney transfered funds into his presidential campaign from his 1996 senate campaign, because both are federal offices. He couldn’t use that same money from his senate campaign for his gubernatorial campaign. Likewise, I doubt he could use money raised for mayor for a fed office. He might be able to use it for a state race though….
use non-federal money in a federal race.
This was a hot topic when it was thought that Owens would eventually run for Senate, and had a sizable war chest in his gubernatorial account.
You also cannot transfer money from a city campaign account to a state account. City campaigns may take corporate and union contributions – state campaigns cannot, thus the money cannot be comingled.
for clearing that up
He’d still be getting his face on TV and creating goodwill for himself by talking about the elections and helping support democracy in general.
The only reason I can think of that the Mayor wouldn’t be getting out in front of this election is he doesn’t want to remind people about what a disaster the Nov. election was.
Hick did any kind of TV – goofy or otherwise. At least I didn’t see any commercials. I did see a Gallagher commercial, but nothing for Clerk candidate or Council at large.
I have not even gotten much mail, though there is no real contest in my district.
I predict a final turnout (not really the correct term anymore if the ballot is 100% by mail) of 32%.
Unless you live in one of two City Council districts, there is nothing very exciting on the ballot.
I agree with the first post that the voters are lazy. The good news is that my vote (and those of my household) will count that much more. We voted the day after we received our ballots.
😉
The low turnout in this election
or
it’s already better than the special election in Jan.
apologize in public and resign from any committee, commission task force or blue ribbon panel formed for any reason by anybody.
I think not……..
give it time. I’m not saying turnout will be great – between mail-in ballots requiring either odd 63 cent postage or driving to some drop-off location, and the dirth of any real reason to vote (outside of truly contested Council seats), turnout’s going to be low – but the drop off locations aren’t open yet except at the Webb building, and there’s still, what, a week and a half to go?
Because they don’t have to……Absent an equal time provision or a regulation that time must be set aside for all candidates and issues to use the public airwaves to inform and discuss, it won’t happen. electronic media outlets….radio and TV….make money on political commercials so they no longer carry new of local elections for free….Why pay for it, if you can get it free? Well, you can’t get it free anymore (I suspect I am mixing up my methaphors…plus is media singular or plural?) so it has to be paid for…
The public is ill served by current FCC policies…..the only time hickenlooper is on TV, now, is that commerical with Ritter promoting the Nine Health Fair…..
A robust discussion of the issues would be good for democracy even in a one horse town where that horse is a donkey……you think things are guiet now…wait til November when there is a school board election AND another mil levy increase on the ballot for DPS….defeating silence…..except when the Foundations kick in to support the mil levy increase…..which will be virtually unopposed….see above.
I don’t have a dog in this election being a burbanite.
But it wouldn’t kill the TV stations to remind people to mail their ballots in during the chatty time of the talking heads. That would take, what, ten seconds at most?
“Channel nine supports democracy and reminds Denver residents to mail their ballots in with 63 cents of postage.”
But maybe that’s over the top without a Fairness Doctrine, where every second has to be a profit center.
The Denver gov’t channel has sponsored candidate forums for all of the races (including the non-contested ones) to inform the public about the election. I suspect not enough people watch Channel 8, though. I watch it religiously…which may not speak highly of me.
Of course, Channel 8 is part of the cable deal done way back when……I think that you have to have cable in order to get Channel 8…a lot of people don’t have cable…
However, I certainly commend you watching it. I try to watch DPS…Channel 22 when it is covering Board business…but it is hard to know when that will happen and the video/audio is terrible….I don’t know if students are learning and they run the camers or what….
Keep us posted on the 8s…
That’s too bad. Shiloh points out that the Channel 8 website is also a resource. But, maybe the same people who don’t have cable also don’t have internet access.
you can watch those channel 8 debates on your computer. That’s what I did. You can even read a transcript of the debates. It’s a tremendous resource, especially for voters in the three council districts with a competitive race on. Being a junkie, I watched them all even though I can’t vote in any of those district races. Did vote for Bill Wells for auditor, though. Gallagher’s work ethic went south in 1860 and hasn’t returned.
I wish he had a more credible opponent. Of course, he had credible opponents 4 years ago and, yet, he still won. I was, and remain, exasperated.