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%
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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
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
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June 22, 2016 01:07 PM UTC
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Good news: it’s still hot outside, but for today, at least, we should be able to stay below 100°F. It’s time to
Mark Halperin today promoted Michael Bennet as "the smart VP choice for Hillary Clinton." He noted Bennet's policy abilities, his youth, from the West, and is qualified to be president.
I would add that Michael Bennet is a favorite of Barack Obama (my hunch). That would help Obama supporters who haven't been that excited about Hillary to come on board with more enthusiasm.
Maybe we need a definitive opinion whether Michael Bennet can run for CO US Senate and Vice President, simultaneously.
He would not excite Bernie supporters. Obama supporters are already on board with HRC. Not gonna happen.
Can he run for Senate and as a VP candidate? Paul Ryan ran for his Congressional seat and as Mitts VP
Undecided, although Colorado law does say that "no person is eligible to be a candidate for more than one office at one time." The state's Elections Division has apparently issued a statement in the past questioning whether it applied to candidates for Federal offices.
Halperins' star has fallen pretty far with me, lately.. I used to think he was pretty astute, but not so much any more. This doesn't boost my confidence in his judgement.
Halperin is superficial at best. Bennet is highly competent but charisma challenged and I can't see him in the attack role against Trump.
Important, I think – one of the things Hillary needs is a running mate that excites and motivates, not another policy wonk. Which running mate will get voters excited about voting for the ticket, and who will help her dilute her high negatives? The person also needs some serious depth of knowledge and experience, which some of the flash-in-the-pan shiny-object types do not have. Bennet's probably not the right person, and a whole lot of others are probably not the right person.
Marco Rubio: Orlando made me rethink my pledge not to run for re-election to the Senate.
Oh, great: one of Florida's most LGBT hostile politicians felt compelled by violence against the LGBT community to run for office.
Halperin is superficial at best. Bennet is highly competent but charisma challenged and I can't see him in the attack role against Trump.
FWIW, the other day I wondered why I had a write-in slot on my primary ballot. After all, I figured – if you've petitioned on successfully, then you've made the deadline for the ballot, right?
Apparently you can petition on after the deadline, and that earns you the right to be nigh-on invisible for a party primary. Elections officials can't tell voters who is available to be written in, and you have to get the name at least mostly right in order for it to count.
I still don't know who Jared Polis' vastly unprepared opponent is.
Harry Hempy is running against Jared Polis.
I still don't really know who is running against Jared Polis, but I have a name (two, really) and a web site now. Thanks.
Please tell me you made that name up, MJ, or he did. That's just too funny to be true.
It's a funny thing – if you see a space for a write-in candidate on the ballot, that means someone is actually a write-in candidate for that seat. It's why you don't see write-ins for every possible seat.
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/159550/colorados-disappearing-write-in-candidate-list
It's a Democrat named Steven Todd. Bernie Sanders supporter, I believe.
Harry Hempy is his real name, and he's a Green curmudgeon. He is cannabis-friendly, but not as hempalicious as some folk ….(cough-MB-cough)
I actually think that Hempy should have gone big or gone home – that is, if he's going to primary Jared Polis, he should have had a real critique of the tactic of initially advocating for ballot initiatives, then suddenly caving and promoting the Frackapalooza deal, which ultimately culminated in the Governor's task force recommending minor rules changes, , which aren't enforced anyway, and a few more inspectors, that really didn't get us very far in empowering communities impacted by fracking.
So that could have been a legit critique of Polis' "work within the system for incremental change" strategy. Instead, Hempy barely mentions fracking, or the years-long struggle to give surface rights owners equal power with mineral rights holders. Instead, it's all about personality – "Who is Harry Hempy?" Meh. PR doesn't need to bother to write him in.
I filled my ballot out last week. Despite a few misgivings about Rep. Polis, I wasn't about to figure out how to write-in someone who couldn't mount enough of a campaign to get his name on to the ballot for real. No sense in giving away a seat to Republicans on a whim.
Harry Hempy vs. Chuck Norris in 2018!
Chuck Norris is actually a reasonably serious guy, we talked at the convention. Can't say about Harry Hempy. But if you expect me to vote for you without laughing, Harry…oh, forget about it.
Indeed, mama…"nowhere" is, in fact, not very far…
The Governors' "Blue Ribbon Panel" accomplished the goal set out for it…nothing. Just a stalling tactic.
Congressman Polis' betrayal on the initiative process evokes a memory that leaves the same taste in ones' mouth as the betrayal of the Initiative for Surface Owners Rights (ISOR) several years ago by the Colorado Association of Home Builders (CAHB).
After working with homebuilders and impacted citizens on the western slope and promising support for our initiative, the CAHB and the front range developers cut a deal with Governor Bill Owens and pulled their support abruptly, crushing the hopes of the many residents of the gas patch who felt that we finally had a chance to win. Congressman Polis' behavior here is no less cowardly and hurtful.
I have never understood why anyone, based on past performance, votes and words from the guys own mouth, ever expected Polis to be a progressive champion and is unpleasantly surprised whenever he proves himself to be exactly what he is, Colorado's right most Democratic congress member. Granted that's still considerably to the left of any of our Republican congress members but it is what it is.
Is he assumed to be much more liberal than his record demonstrates just because he's openly gay? I can't think of any other reason.
For those who assume all gay men have great fashion sense and spend all their spare time at the gym sculpting perfect bodies he must be even more of a shocking disappointment.