U.S. Senate
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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
Governor
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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Jena Griswold
60%
60%
40%↓
Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
40%
30%
Sec. of State
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) George Stern
(R) Sheri Davis
50%↑
40%
30%
State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%
30%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
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*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
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) Joe Salazar
50%
40%
40%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
October 15, 2008 09:25 PM UTC
10 Comments
vote no. Judges are almost always retained every election. Since 1970, the percentage of affirmative votes on judges in Colorado has never dropped below 66.5%. It usually sits at a little above 70% in fact.
http://www.ajs.org/ajs/publica…
Vote no just to keep them on their toes. They’ll likely be retained no matter how you vote.
..but it seems counter-intuitive to vote AGAINST people about whom you know nothing. As far as I understand, you’re voting that they should lose their jobs…based on nothing.
but…maybe my soft heart has lead my astray….AGAIN
and voting for that Republican guy. Diana Degette is going to win, whether I vote for her or not.
I guess it would be better to leave it blank, or hell, I guess you could research it like RavenDawg obviously has.
Either way it doesn’t make any difference.
I vote a straight Republican ticket – to encourage them to find quality candidates that might actually win.
Went through and researched when they were appointed, and mostly voted against any that were appointed a long time ago.
The one judge I really made sure to vote in favor of was local judge James Klein, who’s gotten hammered in blogs for interpreting a bad law correctly. Just want to see some heads explode when he wins confirmation.
In general, I agree with Jambalaya on this sort of thing. Leave them blank if you don’t have a strong opinion, vote to retain if you trust the blue book commission, and vote against if you really dislike someone for some reason. But contrarian voting for its own sake just strikes me as silly.
1. Weight to assign negative comments is subjective. Do you want your judge to be prompt and wrong or tardy and right?
2. I would give most weight to attorney comments, but I am an attorney, so what would you expect.
3. There is no other organization that rates the judges that I am aware of, but the State Judicial Department publishes a comparason chart of the ratings of all of the trial judges that are up or retention. It can be found at http://www.cojudicialperforman… It gives you some idea how the judge rates as compared to his/her peers. For example, the above referenced Judge Klein is rated as 73 out of 95. Not too impressive.
4. Previous ratings are also linked on the Judicial Performance web page.
5. I believe that the only Owens’ appointments are Coates and Eid. Both are more conservative that the democtic appointments, but both are well respected. At the trial court level, if Owens was given the option to appoint a DA, he always did. He did not like lawyers, and did not seem to have any respect for anyone that was not, in effect, a cop.
..they are plenty of Owens appellate-court appointees on the ballot. But the only supreme court justices are Coats and Eid.