CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
August 25, 2014 01:02 PM UTC
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Yes, well, as we've all seen, there's considerable "diversity" between NewsMax and Fox echo-chamer adherents; between the Chamber of Commerce and the TeaParty Chamber of Horrors; among shotgun, rifle and handgun owners; among those whose hate minoroites, those who hate women, and those who hate the already-born; between what Cory, Coffie and Both Ways themselves each said this year as opposed to what they said last year and previous years on numerous political issues.
Maybe that's the "diverfsity" Both Ways wanted to celebrate with his hare-brained radical seccessionist movement….
Brown cows and brown n white cows.
But they will allow their local police in Northern Colorado to check those brown cows (which end up in beef fajitas) to make sure that their papers are in order.
Kow tow, brown cow.
How about two new states … North Colorado and Puerto Rico … which would produce four radical senators, two on the right and two on the left. Heck, the spectacle would make for more interesting viewing on C-Span.
OK but what would the great state of North Colorado do for revenue? It would no doubt become just another red state getting way bigger share of federal tax dollars per capita back then it pays in, with it's totally dependent population carrying on about rugged independence and knowing how to spend their money better than the gubmint does.
Brilliant! He can shake his flip-flopping image by explaining them as merely his support for “diversity of opinions”. His own mostly…
He certainly has diverse opinions. Last year when it suited his purpose to appeal to the right-wing fanatics, he was openly for secession. Now this year, when he's running for governor, he says he was never for secission last year. He didn't earn his nickname by being truthful and consistent that's for sure.
BWB is nothing if not the embodiment of self diversity.
Given BWB's duality, Colorado could save a Lt Gov's salary just by electing BWB to fill both positions. (Assuming that he could put up with four years of bickering with himself.)
Well, he is BWB, after all.
"Wahhhhhhh . . . I want my own state," is now a sentiment???
I don't think I could listen to the whole thing without throwing up, so did Eli follow through on the secession topic to the other darling of the right– the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment? I ask because it's a natural partner to secession, in that it seeks to give rural communities disproportionate influence over policy (oh, and the fact that it's mostly supported by nutbags). I'd like to see Both Ways take a stand on disenfranchising voters.
Why doesn't he run for Governor of Northern Colorado? They will then have a leader, can hoist their flag (which is a hoot in itself) and declare their independence.
I don't understand who he pandering to with this position. The seccessionists lost on their ballot question in most of those counties. So he's sucking up to a minority within a small minority of statewide voters.
In response to Kristina Cook, you have never be under represented. House and Senate districts are apportioned based on population so there are x number of person per position. Rural voters have the same voting power as urban or suburban voters. The undeniable fact that there are fewer rural voters than urban or suburban voters doesn't mean that rural voters are under represented. What it means is that your elected batshit crazy representatives don't have the skill set to offer up pratical solutions to real problems so their anti-women, anti-minority, anti-immigration proposals are dead on arrival and go in the trash where they belong because the brutal truth is that the majority of voters in this state aren't homophobic chauvinists who want to ignore a child after it is out of the womb. Rural residents are not under represented. They just send representatives to the legislature that have no clue on how to craft legislation that would help their constituents. As long as rural voters are going to send turds to the capital, their goofy proposals are going to canned.
Exactly. Per capita they are just as represented as anyone else. There just aren't as many of them. In the American democratic process majorities rule except in areas such as religious freedom and other guaranteed rights and freedoms which cannot be abridged by majority vote, So the majority can't, by definition, be over-represented. It's represented as the majority it is via the democratic process.
And yet if their positions were in the majority regarding the elimination of women's health care choices, they would insist that there be no exceptions for the minority of people who disagreed with them. They always want special exceptions for their minority positions but they are the worst of hypocrites when it comes to showing consideration for minorities when they are in power.
That too.
It was ever thus, GG. There is only one fair outcome to any dispute…I get my way.
Simple.