CO-04 (Special Election) See Full Big Line

(R) Greg Lopez

(R) Trisha Calvarese

90%

10%

President (To Win Colorado) See Full Big Line

(D) Joe Biden*

(R) Donald Trump

80%

20%↓

CO-01 (Denver) See Full Big Line

(D) Diana DeGette*

90%

CO-02 (Boulder-ish) See Full Big Line

(D) Joe Neguse*

90%

CO-03 (West & Southern CO) See Full Big Line

(D) Adam Frisch

(R) Jeff Hurd

(R) Ron Hanks

40%

30%

20%

CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado) See Full Big Line

(R) Lauren Boebert

(R) Deborah Flora

(R) J. Sonnenberg

30%↑

15%↑

10%↓

CO-05 (Colorado Springs) See Full Big Line

(R) Dave Williams

(R) Jeff Crank

50%↓

50%↑

CO-06 (Aurora) See Full Big Line

(D) Jason Crow*

90%

CO-07 (Jefferson County) See Full Big Line

(D) Brittany Pettersen

85%↑

 

CO-08 (Northern Colo.) See Full Big Line

(D) Yadira Caraveo

(R) Gabe Evans

(R) Janak Joshi

60%↑

35%↓

30%↑

State Senate Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

80%

20%

State House Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

95%

5%

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
November 20, 2014 06:29 AM UTC

Thursday Open Thread

  • 23 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

"I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."

–George H. W. Bush

Comments

23 thoughts on “Thursday Open Thread

    1. and the website hit 100,000 enrollments on the first open day……..with 1 million unique visits. Please, R's, continue this stupidest fight against mere subsistence medical care given to the poorest among us. Maybe Mark Udall or Michael Bennet could say something. 

  1. Democrats must be bipartisan and pass Republican bills! (Unless you are a Black President.) You will get no credit from voters, but Op-Ed pages everywhere will praise you!

    1. President Obama takes executive action on the issue of immigration and he is violating the law and betraying the constitution. He gets sued and a government shutdown is threatened George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan (Blessed be thy name) did the same thing and they were taking actions that were good and neccessary to improve legislation.

       

  2. Thanks for quoting my favorite member of the Bush family!  I'm old enough to remember the pro-choice moderate-conservative George H.W. Bush who correctly labeled Reaganomics and Voodoo Economics. 

    In 1988 and in large part due to my dislike of Michael Dukakis, I briefly entertained the thought of possibly voting for Daddy Bush.  (Then he went and announced his belief that J. Danforth Quayle was the most qualified person to take over the presidency should something happen to Bush, and that was the end of that.)  This was soon followed by the infamous "Read My Lips" speech and the rest is history…… 

    By 1992, I voted for Billary Clinton enthusiastically.  Daddy Bush looked, sounded like and was a loser.  Then along came the Shrub, Bush v, Gore, My Pet Goat, "we'll smoke 'em out," WMD's in Iraq, "we're turning another corner in Iraq," "you're doing a heck of a job there Brownie," Rummy, Cheney, etc., etc., and Daddy Bush started to look like a towering statesman. 

     

    1. I did actually vote for GHW Bush the first time around. Of course, I wasn't quite as deeply involved in politics then – didn't know his CIA background, that he might very well have been behind Iran-Contra (and much of the latter part of the Reagan administration, given his later-revealed mental deterioration)…

      It is my deepest suspicion that we will never again return to truly moderate Republican nominees for President – or at least we will never have a moderate Republican elected as President.

  3. George H.W. Bush was an honorable man who sold his soul to be President–flip flopping on choice, Reagan economics and other issues to be elected President.  

  4. MEMO

    TO:  The People of Buffalo, New York

    FR:  The Crotch Brothers

    RE:  Today's weather

    DATE:  11/20/14

    Pay no attention to the snowfall.  It will stop.  And eventually melt.  But do not expect government to remove it.  And pay no attention to all that talk about global warming or climate change.  It is all a tree-hugger, liberal plot to take away our SUVs and way of life.

  5. Congressman-elect Buck – makin' us folk in Dumphuckistan proud before he's even sworn in.  Takin' our country back, one idiotic grandstanding moment at a time.  No, Ken, POTUS doesn't need 35 Secret Service to eat a piece of pizza – he has the SS because folks like you inflame idiots that just can't help themselves by making threats on his life.  These threats, averaging 30 per day, represent a 400% increase over George W. Bush.  You do the math.

    1. And you know that if he never left the White House, they would be bitching that he's in isolation.  

      So what caused this bigot to lose his appetite:  the 20 Hispanic kids or POTUS?

      He's a piece of work.

      1. Lyndon Johnson said once when he was being pummeled by the press and Congress that if he were to walk across the Potomac, the headlines would read, president can't swim.''

         

  6. An interesting post-election analysis at the Federal level from a Republican commentator. Obviously Chris Ladd is not a Tea Partier; his analysis runs contrary to the easy story of election wins, but it's got numbers on its side..

    Few things are as dangerous to a long term strategy as a short-term victory. Republicans this week scored the kind of win that sets one up for spectacular, catastrophic failure and no one is talking about it.

    […] at the outset of any [2016] Presidential campaign, a minimally effective Democratic candidate can expect to win 257 electoral votes without even trying. That’s 257 out of the 270 needed to win. […] Arguably Virginia now sits behind that [Blue Wall] as well[, extending the Blue Wall to 270 electoral votes, out of 270].

    – Across the country, every major Democratic ballot initiative was successful, including every minimum wage increase, even in the red states.

    – Every personhood amendment failed.

    – In Congress, there are no more white Democrats from the South. The long flight of the Dixiecrats has concluded.

    – Democrats in 2014 were up against a particularly tough climate because they had to defend 13 Senate seats in red or purple states. In 2016 Republicans will be defending 24 Senate seats and at least 18 of them are likely to be competitive based on geography and demographics. Democrats will be defending precisely one seat that could possibly be competitive. One.

    – And that “Republican wave?” In Congressional elections this year it amounted to a total of 52% of the vote. That’s it.

    There's lots more where that came from…

  7. About 400 people here at the Gov's Oil & Task Force public comment session. Plenty of people commenting, asking for regulation, enforcement, inspection, civility, courtesy.

    The tradeoff in quality of life vs. economic boom is a continuing theme.

    "Privatizing the profits, socializing the costs" – Martin Lind

    Northridge HS site in Greeley, with leaks near the school. At the proposed elementary school site, the drilling company was "stunned into silence" when residents requested an air quality monitor.Is there a point of well saturation? – Maydean Worley

    Nick Johnson: concerned member of Lafayette community. (which voted to ban fracking) " We understand that it's an economic boon – we also understand that it's a public health issue.We need to give more authority to our local communities."

    What is being proposed is a land plan- set up land use standards before communities are built. – He's talking about how earthen berms were built to shield neighborhoods from noise and . (unknown speaker)

    Rod Brueske – This commission, if they want to have legitimacy, needs to have a grand jury investigation of the COGCC, COGA, b/c of their interpretation of state regulations. These orgs have allowed reduced or no fines or fees for violations. They are acting with criminal negligence, and I highly recommend an investigation of this pattern of violations.

    Jennifer ? – personal story about living next to holding tanks. I feel that I live in an industrial area now. Lights, sound, natural gas, open flames, truck traffic. Ugly, smelly, bright, noisy. Little info about long term exposure – I feel that my family are test subjects.

     

     

     

     

     

Leave a Comment

Recent Comments


Posts about

Donald Trump
SEE MORE

Posts about

Rep. Lauren Boebert
SEE MORE

Posts about

Rep. Yadira Caraveo
SEE MORE

Posts about

Colorado House
SEE MORE

Posts about

Colorado Senate
SEE MORE

58 readers online now

Newsletter

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!