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%
October 06, 2008 09:03 PM UTC
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Are there any for-real GOP contenders in 2010?
Just wondering.
I was mostly commenting on the point you all made about the GOP’s bench being paper-thin.
I’m also curious about gubernatorial candidates.
CD-3.
Many of the younger up-and-comers have left or have lost – people like Rob Witwer and Matt Knoedler. And the people who have won congressional seats in Republican areas – Doug Lamborn and Marilyn Musgrave – are too extreme to ever run for higher office.
Republicans have future candidates, but nobody you would be particularly worried about as a Democrat. Former Republican Sen. Tom Wiens is already running for governor, but Democrats don’t seem all that concerned with him. Josh Penry is always talked about for something, but he shot himself in the foot with his stupid ballot measure.
The GOP is still a few years away from having a strong bench.
I’m going to run against DeGette next cycle. I’m not going to raise money, I’m just going to point out what a do-nothing she is and how systemically wrong it is to have someone who’s able to maintain a seat for life and enrich themselves because of the makeup of their district.
Yes, I’ll get my ass kicked in the election, aided by the millions she spends to dig up olive-in-the-asscheek pictures from college, but my point will be made.
That’s the point. I’d keep going to work, doing my stuff. Parenting, volunteering. Maybe force her to debate me once (she probably wouldn’t, but maybe the press would lean on her to do it). I don’t want to disrupt everyone’s life to stick a thorn in an elephant’s paw (that’s a metaphor, not a mean joke about Degette).
I don’t want to waste a bunch of other people’s money in a suicide mission against a millionaire who has a job for life, but it’s BS that she can basically do anything she wants until eternity and we (Dem and Repub) are stuck with her.
I’ll do nothing, change nothing, raise no money, and do zero work on your behalf.
If you do put yourself on the ballot, though, you’ll have my vote in 2010.
It may be a sympathy vote, but I agree with DeGette’s attitude of entitlement in representing CD1.
No matter how much incumbents might think otherwise, it’s hard for someone not to get complacent when nobody is challenging their seat.
I’d like to see al 7 within the 52%/48% range.
Come on dems, let the games begin!!!
Your proposed candidate lost Adams County to me last year. CD7 includes a portion of Adams County.
Good one!
Maybe that’s why he’s behind 47? Trying to prove himself to the state GOP?
for two reasons.
1) The vast majority of people re-elect their own Congressperson. Given that incumbents frequently win with 65% or more of the vote, that’s at least a quarter of the population who’s a bunch of hypocrites. But it’s actually not that bad, because of
2) If you actually asked people which is better: fresh energy and lack of corruption, or seniority and bringing home money, it would be a much more interesting result. Of course, we already know the answer, since again, they vote for incumbents.
Ask me if I want free beer for the rest of my life. I’ll probably say ‘yes.’
Recruit Nancy L Baldwin for CO Governor.
In a PRIMARY!!!
I hope I can count on your support.
to run for governor in Colorado, Nancy,
but keep on wasting those panties!
Your posts all sound like an angry, unsatisfied “R”. Care to pass along your real name?
It’s what separates crazy from awesome.
Guess they don’t get all the papers in CA
too quickly.
That’s Nancy’s “evil” twin, Nancy L. with a period.
Honestly, its like having a twin whose only discernible difference is a mole on the back of their neck.
Nancy without the period’s posts make no sense. Nancy with the period makes sense, and is generally very clever snark.
So if you’re thinking “this makes absolutely no sense” – it’s Nancy without the period.
While the first impact of such a poll is upsetting, it really is not much different than past years. I remember my Legislature class in college – my professor hammered the point that well over half of the electorate in any given election would vote to kick out Congress, while almost identical margins would vote to retain their particular Congressperson. While we have it nice (statistically speaking) here in Colorado, with a few seats that are drawn to be contested each cycle, the overwhelming trend has always been that voters strongly disapprove of Congress as a whole, and yet approve of their individual Representative.
We’re upset at the greedy bastards elsewhere getting their earmarks. We’re thrilled when we get ours.
Did anyone watch The CEO of Lehman Brothers, Mr. Richard S. Fuld Jr., defend his $350M compensation between 2000 and 2007? How about the $3+Billion in bonuses at the end of 2007 when he was simultaneously warning of a coming collapse? How about George H. Walker, President Bush’s cousin and a member of Lehman’s executive committee, breezily shot down the ideas, according to the e-mails.
“Sorry team. I am not sure what’s in the water at” Neuberger Berman, Walker wrote to the rest of the executive committee. “I’m embarrassed and I apologize.”
Get that Dear CoPols readers?? GWB’s cousin in on the executive committee!! We shouldn’t be surprised, should we, that this was such a failure.
McCain’s Keating 5 needs to be put front and center.