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%
July 21, 2008 08:11 PM UTC
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Now true conservatives have a real choice in Nov.
They can either compromise their principles and vote for John McCain (a man who has gutted the First Amendment, wants to open the door to illegal aliens, voted against Pres. Bush’s ’01 tax cuts, and has labeled honor men of God like Falwell and Robertson, “agents of intolerance”) or they can vote for Bob Barr (a solid conservative who led the drive to impeach the immoral Bill Clinton in ’98).
more liely to be believed.
but I’m questioning the intensity of your support of Bob Barr, because you failed to mention John McCain didn’t even vote for George Bush in 2004.
I hadn’t heard that. I do think it’s significant that McCain voted to acquit Bill Clinton on one of the two counts during the ’98 impeachment trial.
How can a Republican call himself (or herself) a true Clinton Hater and yet vote for a guy who wanted to let Slick Willy off the hook on at least one count.
Esp. when they have the opportunity to vote for Bob Barr, one of the prosecutors, in the impeachment trial.
the best way to stick it to the Clintons would be to vote for the young buck who put Hillary in her place …
Either way, it looks like a true Republican has to vote for Barr or Obama, or just stay home, this year. The choice is clear.
with the least credibility to tell R’s how to vote, are deigning to tell us what we should think.
Thanks for the condescension boys, but I’ll pass.
Thanks, Jericho! That means a great deal to me. I was only aiming for the bottom dozen. This is so exciting.
Go ahead, vote for McCain. Throw your vote away. Whatever validates you in the voting booth.
Sure is great that we (Gravel) didn’t win the Libertarian National Convention, isn’t it?
GObama
Right now the mushy middle has stacked the deck so that they get what they want every time and anyone with principle is told to sit down and shut up. Vote for principle, and you are the big villain.
But Barr’s voters are actually on safe ground this time around because for many of them, voting for Obama is more or less a tepid neutral position, whereas voting for McCain sends the absolute wrong message to the Republican Party. If a vote for Barr was a vote for Clinton, I think they would consider it a lot longer, but that is not the case this time.
Ultimately what we need to do is build a coalition of Lefties like myself, along with people on the Right who believe that the Republicans have pretty much sold out every real Conservative value, and together we need to fix the voting system so that voting for who you love does not cost you anything in the fight for the center.
Zogby Interactive, or Zogby real polling?
The Interactive polls suck. The real polling is better, though not the most reliable.
this is where I got it from
http://www.zogby.com/50state/
So the poll is a bit dated too.
…then I took the poll this weekend.
It was a joke.
They asked us to pick two choices from a list of “most important issues” in the presidential election.
The war in Iraq wasn’t even one of the choices.
has Obama ahead here by an average 3.6 through July 10th so If Barr even manages to take 4 or 5 % that could be huge. He’s also posing a threat to McCain in Georgia where, thanks to Barr, McCain is only 2 points ahead in a state that ought to be a huge, no sweat win for him.
But they have been more all over the map than $$ claims. In the July polls shown McCain has been as high as 11 points ahead but also as low as 2, with Barr taking between 1 and 4. All told, not nearly as comfy as we should expect for the Republican in Georgia.
than to see 60% of the people NOT vote for the eventual president.
60% of the people not voting for the president would be a huge improvement.
Bush vote 2004 = 62,040,610
That was roughly 80% not voting for him.
When the majority of people voted against Bush – but he still won (via the electoral college).
Gore, at the time, wasn’t generating all that much enthusiasm for himself personally. It was a pro-Dem vote. Kerry lost narrowly but most of his vote wasn’t strong Kerry support so much as anti-Bush. This time most of the McCain support is simply anti-Dem with little strong enthusiasm for McCain himself while Obama is generating all the real enthusiasm and excitement. That gives us a better chance of winning by enough to make it stick this time. People are actually FOR Obama, not just against somebody else.
but this time, to the Democratic candidate’s advantage. Sure would be fun to see that shoe on the other foot – just watch how all the defenders of the EC system suddenly claim that we need to directly elect the President.
Does anyone have access to the cross-tabs? This is a Zogby online poll and in 2006 they were wildly inaccurate. I’d like to see a little more before I comment.
right up until election night. When the returns started coming in Allard led from the beginning and won by something like 9 points.
The night before the election in 2002, Zogby had Strickland ahead by six points. …..When Zogby comes any farther west than Pittsburgh, he is way off……
not the Interactive.
That race has puzzled me. Since there is no chance for a Tom Bradley effect, how could a pollster be so far off, or why would so many people say Stricland and then check off Allard in the booth?
He was using some new methodology which I presume he quickly shit-canned after seeing how reliable it was.
Dave Barry is running and I think he’s a real contender this time, unlike the last 2 elections.
Cynthia McKinney received the Green Party Nomination.
Ralph Nader is running as an Independent.
McKinney is running on a platform of slapping people around.
But Cynthia definitely is.
I watched a press conference once where she makes statements to the press, then leaves. Then she comes back and says “by the way, all of that was off the record.”
that Mckinney story is hillarious.
how each will do. My guess is
1) Bob Barr
2) Dave Barry
3) Crazy lady
4) Crazy guy
Suppose he’ll get some write-in?
But unless he filed as a write-in candidate in this state, those votes won’t be counted.
This is the case almost nation-wide. Write-in votes for Paul don’t change the dynamic of the race at all, even if he got several million. They only hinder Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party nominee.
Of course, that presumes you can actually get into the polling place on the same day as the election…
Calling Dan Willis….I don’t think you can write in ….the old machines used to have a brown paper strip….recording write-in votes…..like mickey mouse and calvin coolidge…but I don’t think they were ever counted….
with the new touch screens, I don’t think write-ins are feasible…
….but the SOS/Clerk won’t count the results unless the write-in candidate has filed an affidavti of write-in candidacy.
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Ron Paul will endorse Chuck Baldwin at the counter-Convention in Minneapolis.
full disclosure:
he already did, last week, on the steps of the US Capitol.
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….and hosted on SNL