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
50%↑
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%
May 22, 2015 10:49 AM UTC
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Wasn't it The Who who told Jimmy Page his new band would go over like a Led Zeppelin? Nice reference.
Gardner wants women to pay for what they get free now. How is that a good deal?
Moddy would call it a market-based solution to reproductive rights.
Forget the contraceptive issue for a moment.
"Their bill also would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s restriction on the use of health, medical and flexible savings accounts to purchase over-the-counter drugs without a prescription."
This is a sop to the rich. If you're struggling to pay for your meds because you're working a minimum wage job, taking pre-tax dollars out of your paycheck to buy your pills with does you no good: You're not paying any federal income tax anyway. For rich folks, though, it's a 30% discount on their Benadryl and Motrin.
Bernie Sanders makes the all too reasonable case that we should tax high volume bank/stock trade transactions and use those funds to lower the cost of college for America's youth.
With banks ever more powerful and profitable, and student debt still causing problems both for its holders and the many students who will struggle to pay those loans for years, this would seem to be a logical and conservative investment in The USA. Bernie:
It makes so much sense to me I dare say his bill should get bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate. Of course, Democratic senators are deathly afraid of any mention of raising taxes, because they'll get beaten over the head by their Republican counterparts and they are mostly incapable of making the common sense case for fairer taxation and smart investments in our society (that's the one everyone says is the greatest in the history of the planet.) Or maybe they think things are just great the way they are.
When Bernie tried to explain this quite simple concept to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Blitzer sounded blitzed:
Is it possible to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and the largest banks in a way that doesn't harm them financially?
Should we make a common sense investment in our children (they are the future, right R's?) and give a world class education to as many of them as possible?
Wouldn't those same banks, and those same billionaires, also benefit from the fruits and labors of a highly educated and modern work force of, what they keep telling us, is the Greatest Nation on Earth?
Hey, maybe someone like a Michael Bennet could co-sponsor such legisltation, get some credit for pretending to be tough on banks (like he pretends to be tough on trade), and differentiate himself from his Republican opponent who we know will say "Hell, no!" to anything proposed by Bernie Sanders.
Or maybe Bennet could just sit on his hands a while longer.
Just don't call it the Robin Hood Tax and I'm all for it.