President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
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%
20%
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
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
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State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
April 24, 2011 02:41 AM UTC
11 Comments
Spelling aside. In this mayoral campaign with lackluster interest by the voters and the press, candidates had better get ALL the votes they can.
Colorado is becoming more multicultural and yes some of those from other nations can actually vote.
Linkhart at one of the debates said there are 25,000 Ethiopians in Denver. I’m not sure how many Ertitreans there are, but it sounds like Hancock will get a leader’s vote and his vote may encourage or sway others.
In this race every vote counts.
If Mejia had been endorsed by say the Guatamalean organization or Romer by the Bask society would your tone be the same?
Denver Pols would probably make the same jokes about spelling if Romer bragged about an endorsement from the Basks, it’s true.
That the Basque community would endorse scumball Chris Romer.
and we’re one of the states where Eritreans are resettled in large numbers. I’m not sure that the number of Eritreans is as much as the 25,000 Ethiopians, which does sound accurate, but it’s not far off.
Why would Denver Pols be “shocked” that there’s such an organization? That’s just an unnecessary statement on your part. Shocked? Really? That said, I’m not sure how much this endorsement means. I pay attention because I think our refugees need more attention, but I doubt this will resonate with many people.
We probably should have said “surprised.” We’d never heard of the organization, and certainly never seen it touted by a candidate for office. That’s not bad or good — we were just surprised to see it.
I think the words that are chosen often show the intrinsic biases that we all possess.
Probably enough said. I think you all made your point.
Spelling aside. In this mayoral campaign with lackluster interest by the voters and the press, candidates had better get ALL the votes they can.
Colorado is becoming more multicultural and yes some of those from other nations can actually vote.
Linkhart at one of the debates said there are 25,000 Ethiopians in Denver. I’m not sure how many Ertitreans there are, but it sounds like Hancock will get a leader’s vote and his vote may encourage or sway others.
In this race every vote counts.
If Mejia had been endorsed by say the Guatamalean organization or Romer by the Bask society would your tone be the same?
These drive-by attacks are stupid, and make you look stupid. Stop.
You’re mad at us for giving coverage to a press release that normally wouldn’t garner any?
Let’s say that this endorsement really resonates with a small sub-set of people. They have a far better chance of seeing it now that we’ve posted it.
Sure, we’ve posted it because it’s kind of funny, but either way, it does showcase the fact that Hancock got this endorsement.
We have nothing against Hancock. We made fun of Romer when we got his press release about the candidate riding on a certain bus at a certain time. Quirky aspects of a campaign are fair game no matter what.
to its coming into being as an independent state, are the predominant African immigrant population in the Denver area (followed perhaps by Sudanese immigrants). I suspect that Linkhart’s estimate of 25,000 in the metro area is on target.
The Ethiopian community probably exceeds that of any first and second generation group of immigrants from any one European country in Denver (with the possible exceptions of Greeks and European Jews), and is also on a par population wise with most of the immigrant populations from specific Asian countries (e.g. Thai or Vietnamese).
There are probably more Coptic Christians in Denver (ball parking from number of places of worship) than there are Muslims or Hindus or Buddhists, and they are probably close in number to the number of Orthodox Christians in Denver.
What subset of Ethiopians in Denver are from Eritrea rather than rump Ethiopia? Hell if I know. But, surely there are some.
For Hancock, one of the things an endorsement like this conveys is friendliness to immigrant communities that could be masked by the inclination of Latin American immigrant communities to favor Mejia simply on shared ethnicity.
Another thing it does is to dog whistle connection to an Africanist as opposed to assimilationist vision of African-American political identity which matters to a lot politically active people in North Denver (which is home among other things to an Ethiopian sister city park that sends similar message, particularly to those with political roots in the 1960s and 1970s when that vision was particularly prominent) without sending a comprehensible political message to other voters (as evidenced by the confusion found in this post about what this message means).
This could be reassuring to people who are worried that Hancock is a closest conservative, as messaging early in the campaign about him being a possible GOP favorite in the race, had suggested.