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(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) Jena Griswold
(D) David Seligman
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(D) J. Danielson
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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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(D) Joe Neguse*
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(R) H. Scheppelman
(D) Alex Kelloff
70%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
90%
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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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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
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30%
30%
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June 30, 2014 06:11 AM UTC
30 Comments
So… the open thread has been up for almost an hour and nothing from our trolls…
there must have been an election, recently??
Widespread Panic concert at Red Rocks . . .
Widespread panic of Republican Party insiders everywhere.
The Tea Party radicals they set loose are not giong away any time soon – just listen to their true leaders any morning or afternoon (or any of their 24×7 replays on any number of radio stations around the state) for about 15-30 minutes. Levin, Savage, Rush, and local yokels like Richard Randall and Jeff Crank in the Springs , are all relentlessly attacking those who were good, upstanding* members of their own party just months ago.
I actually think this is a good thing because those solid Republican voters are finally seeing huge duplicity of the Southern Strategy's focus on largely phony social/tax issues vs. the extreme, almost exclusive, priority of DC R's in aiding and protecting the 1%. (You don't see McConnell, Cantor, Boner naming any Corporate Welfare Queens like Blackwater, do you?)
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dems need to be careful and not over-pander to a voting bloc that sees them as, and hears them described as, these fear inducing names every day by the very same people. socialist, communist, collectivist, Bolshevik traitor, gun grabber, taker, and on and on…..The fear induced hatred of your every day, traditional Democrat is something that may never go away and will probably always prevent these types from voting for anyone with a (D) behind their name.
Sorry, Z, I think you are whistling in the dark. There is an ongoing debate within the republican party between the teaparty and the establishment repubs. However, there does seem to be agreement that in Colorado, they are a united party……Gardner has teaparty and establishment support….
If you listen to Corporon, who is a tea party chair or whatever they are called, he conducts ongoing conversations on his show about whether to support Beauprez or not. He is civil and they do discuss all kinds consequences to whom the teaparty supports for governor.
The results of republican party primaries is mixed. Lindsey Graham easily beat back a tea party opponent as did McConnell in Kentucky…..Woods and Sanchez were both tea party candidates who won their primaries …..they both had a good ground game.
They are still awaiting mothership downlink.
Court rules that companies have religion. Now if some of them would only get some…
. . . of course they do.
It used to be more OT: "I got mine, fuck 'em."
These NT days, it's: "I got mine, fuck 'em — and let me do whatever I want."
Anyone see the new crying baby full page anti-Polis ad from Log Cabin Rs in the paper? What a coincidence that, once again, the job of criticizing our openly gay congressman seems to have been assigned to the Republican gay organization. While the base loathes them, anti-gay stances are part of the party platform and hardly a day goes by that a mainstream high profile Republican doesn't compare their "condition" to being an alcoholic or pervert and their "lifestyle" a threat to good Christian American families, they're still game to allow themselves to be used by those who despise them. The one thing the GOTP apparently thinks they're good for is attacking gay Dem pols. Hey, it's not homophobic, folks. Look. It's coming from teh gays.
Apparently the only folks who loath Log Cabin Republicans more than the GOTP base are the Log Cabin Republicans themselves. Please accept us and let us attend all those cool conservative events even though we're gay. If you do we'll specialize in lending credibility to attacks on gay Dems for you. We'll even use a crying baby as a substitute for "sissy" but people will get the picture. And even if you ban us from cool events, we won't give up. On the rare occasions when you condescend to using us we'll be there for you with bells on. Unless you think that's too gay.
The idea that the Log Cabin Republicans have more credibility attacking Polis is a joke. They have no more credibility than an organization called Gefilte Fish Neo Nazis would have attacking Jewish pols. Cringing self loathing is such a universal turn off. And BTW, what the heck does a log cabin have to do with being gay? Guess they hope low info votes will just think they're Republicans who really like Lincoln. Maybe because of the rumors?
Sorry. That font thing got away from me again.
Log cabin or not, they're still Republicans. And like Mesa County Republicans, they often vote against their own best interests.
Why limit it to Meesa County, Ralphie. Every lower-middle class voter who goes 3for the GOTP because it "shares our values" is voting agaisnt their own self-interests.
Because it's especially true in Mesa County, where straight-ticket GOP voters have given us Josh "Here, have our water!" Penry, Scooter "Can I copy from your paper?" McGinnis, Jared "Honest.. I didn't know it was wrong!" Wright, and Steve King. ( I don't have the heart to think up a snarky slogan for him…yet.)
How about…Steve "wait, what do you mean this isn't my money?" King?
"Hollywood" is good enough. It describes a plethora of vices.
I was thinking about something referencing his hair…..
Why limit it to lower middle class? If you aren't in the top .1% and you vote Republican you're voting against your own economic interests. That includes those merely in the lower echelons of the top 1%, nobodies as far as the real power elite is concerned.
And done on the day after NYC's pride parade! Have they no sense of decency???
Started boycotting Hobby Lobby years ago – not that it seemed to hurt them $$-wise one bit. Still it made me feel better; never more than today.
I won't shop anywhere that's closed on Sunday, not for lack of business, but, for their personal religious beliefs.Besides, if the full-page ads are any indication, the place is lousy with cheesy religiously-themed crap from China. Not my cuppa'.
Yep…full of crap from China for people who have more time on their hands than do I.
I will say, they some very hard to find things ( I was in there once looking for something), but they have competitors. Just go to Michaels.
…have some….
Sorry, Duke. I think Michael's is just as conservative as Hobby Lobby.
Really? I didn't know that, but I'm not terribly surprised. I almost never shop in those stores since my "hobby" involves guitars and microphones. There are usually give-a-ways you notice when you do business in stores.
I had lunch with a friend yesterday, in a locally owned place I haven't been in in a couple of years. I noticed they had added to the decor by placing Broncos football jerseys in large frames and hanging them on the wall…sort of "hall of fame"-ish.
The great ones were there…Elway…Floyd Little…like that. And, lo and behold, there right next to Terrell Davis…Tim Tebow.
Do you think that says anything about the owners of that joint?
I do.
Where is the recent polling data about BothWaysBob™ vs Chickenlooper ?
Pointers would be welcome.
What is with Freemont County?
http://aidsvu.org/
Canon City.
prisons
Sad, but unsurprising, commentary about the state of "news reporting":
Why I Left 60 Minutes
This just in early birds…fracktivists, take note.
New York top court OKs local gas-drilling bans.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's top court handed a victory to opponents of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas Monday by affirming the right of municipalities to ban the practice within their borders.
The state Court of Appeals upheld a midlevel appeals court ruling from last year that said the state oil and gas law doesn't trump the authority of local governments to control land use through zoning.
The "fracking" cases from two central New York towns have been closely watched by drillers hoping to tap into the state's piece of the Marcellus Shale formation and by environmentalists who fear water and air pollution.
Both sides are still waiting to see whether a statewide moratorium on fracking in effect since July 2008 will be lifted.
The court in a 5-2 decision stressed that it did not consider the merits of fracking, only the authority of municipalities to regulate land use. The court said the towns of Dryden and Middlefield both acted properly.
"The towns both studied the issue and acted within their home rule powers in determining that gas drilling would permanently alter and adversely affect the deliberately-cultivated, small-town character of their communities," according to the majority ruling by Judge Victoria Graffeo.
http://news.yahoo.com/york-top-court-oks-local-gas-drilling-bans-132730530.html
Good news, and I think that the court took an approach that will fit Colorado communities…"the court in a 5-2 decision stressed that it did not consider the merits of fracking, only the authority of municipalities to regulate land use"