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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
Governor
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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
60%↑
50%↓
Att. General
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(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) David Seligman
50%
40%
30%
Sec. of State
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
50%
40%
30%
State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
40%
40%
30%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
90%
10%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(R) H. Scheppelman
(D) Alex Kelloff
70%
30%
10%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
90%
20%
20%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
70%
30%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
45%↓
30%
30%
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
August 06, 2008 08:57 PM UTC
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Maybe a state of mind, but certainly not a member of the union.
Virginia is a Commonwealth
I like the sound of that better than “Virginia,” frankly.
Florida will go for McCain pretty solidly, as will Missouri and Indiana. Virginia will go to McCain just barely. Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and New Hampshire will go to Obama and give him the victory.
You read it here first. 🙂
and it looks like she will not be, Obama might exceed Johnson’s 1964 total of 486 electoral votes.
Any one else as VP and it will be a toss up right up to election day. In that case Ohio will decide the election. Unless another woman is chosen. Any other woman as VP–Obama loses.
and if you are, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Obama camp knows it and choses accordingly.
Has decided a lot of presidential elections. I doubt that this election will be any different, and I think Obama can win it. But it’s going to be a close race. Democrats need huge turnout from the under 30 crowd and African Americans to win.
And then there is that thing that the political scientists always point out about how “no Republican has ever been elected President without carrying Ohio”. It’s the biggest state that Bush carried in 2004 that has could realistically flip (I think McCain is going to carry Florida with relative ease), and it’s got a mix between urban, suburban and rural that’s pretty close to the rest of the country.
Colorado will be interesting to watch, but it won’t decide the election.
Florida are bigger than Ohio and Bush carried them both (allegedly–he was awarded their electoral votes anyway 😉 ) in ’04.
I said that Ohio was the biggest state Bush carried that has a realistic chance of flipping….not that Ohio was the biggest state Bush won….
guess I read to quickly. Texas will be in McCain’s column.
I am not willing to write off Florida quite so quicly though.
I see what you’re saying. I wouldn’t put FL on the R side like I would Texas, I just think Obama is going to do better in Ohio.
When McCain Wins you all will not care which state made McCain President.
If McCain wins the popular vote, but Obama wins the Electoral College.
the crucial Supreme Court vote?
how many chickens do you have in your egg carton?
but now that you mentioned it, it applies there also!
…when he becomes President and he Wins.
Why the capitalization?
Forget the fact that it always votes Democratic and that Obama is local – there will still be a big question… Of can he hit 80%.
if he named your mom as his running mate
Obama wins MI, NM, CO. And taking MT puts him over the top.
Just trying to think out of the box here…
I voted for Colorado being THE state that picks the next prez!
and Mike Coffman can pay back all those establishment Republicans who’ve shown him so much love.
If I had my way it would be Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Illinois or California….
I think it’s going to be so overwhelming that we’ll be watching to see if Obama gets Texas & Mississippi, not because he needs them, but because it would then be a blow-out of epic proportions.
then times have really changed. I encountered my first de jure segregation there in Dalhart in the 1950s. Ugly, ugly, scene. I was a little kid changing trains and wandered into the colored waiting room by mistake…who knew there were colored waiting rooms. I still remember this dignified old black man explaining to me that I was in the wrong room. I don’t know who felt worse, he at having to explain the rules of racism to me or me at the sense of shame I felt at being part of an oppressive society at a time when I was barely old enough to spell oppression.
My mother, raised in non-racial Brazil, is a feisty 91 year old ever alert for evil.
About 1958 when we were touristing in the FL Keys, one of us stepped on the proverbial rusty nail. We went to a local doctor for a tetanus booster. After checking in, and seeing White and Colored waiting rooms, Mom with us kids in tow, went straight for the Colored room. The staff was beside themselves and tried to point out the error of her Yankee ways. She said to them, “No, I’m staying right here.”
A lesson well learned.
Every moment is a learnng moment when you have kids…and you never know when the opportunity to stand up for right will present itself!
She was from the Iron range in MN, but she was serving as a nurse at an Army hospital in NO. Her shift always ended late and she would slip into Mass after it had started. To avoid a hubbub she sat in the back in the colored section, the first time it happened a greater told her she couldn’t sit there because she was white.
She was surprised, but she replied “God doesn’t see color and neither should his house”
She was always proud of tht story, but she always followed with the story of how after 4 years living in the segregated south she returned to work in Chicago.
She was ashamed to find out the segregated environment had effected her when she was uncomfortable when a black woman took a seat next to her on a chicago bus.
She used it as a lesson of how you have to fight racism in yourself and the best way is to spend time with folks of different races so that you never feel they alien to you.
BTW my wife was born and raised in Brazil (her parents were missionaries) and still holds dual citizenship.
Good for her!
My mother was born in Brazil, her father having taken a position to run the YMCA in Rio. He could have had a wealthy career in banking but chose to serve his fellow man and (as he saw it) the Lord.
While not a missionary in the narrow sense, he considered himself one and most of their friends were missionaries in Rio.
Like yours, my mother has dual citizenship.
What a small world!
“More Koolaid” was directed at David’s over exuberance which sometimes borders on delusional.
…then you all need to bow down in awe at my estimate 🙂
Ohio
Virginia
Colorado/NH
Why these? States that went Bush (NH went Kerry but McCain has always been strong there) but only 1 of these has to go Obama (CO/NH is a combo becuase Obama needs 10 ev)
Everyone knows you have to win the Electoral College…except Bush. That still makes you all mad!
Hee, Hee, Hee!
The state that puts Obama over the top will be either New Mexico or a west coast state since they close later in the voting booth—that is assuming it is a close race. I’m not so sure it will be; so here’s saying New Mexico.