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(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
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Governor
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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
60%↑
50%↓
Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) David Seligman
40%
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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*
(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) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
90%
20%
20%
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) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
45%↓
40%
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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5%
January 10, 2009 10:50 PM UTC
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She consistently ranks as 2nd favorite Republican (the Gov gets 1st) and does not appear on the least favorite list (the Gov also gets 1st there). But these bozos who couldn’t pull in 20% of the vote are always mad at her for being too liberal.
Meanwhile she gets elected with 75 – 80% of the vote in a Democratic district.
..clutch the pearls and whatnot!
Besides being an avid gay baiter and climate change denier, not mention the least effective state rep. in the house, he’s a bully:
http://www.coloradoconfidentia…
No wonder he stood up for Doug Bruce after he attacked the Rocky photog.
The other day DemZorro summed up Kevin Lundberg nicely:
Considering the senate leadership backed Lundberg, I think it’s demonstrative of why the Republican party is so beleagured in the legislature right now. Talk about out of touch. Having Lundberg waving his various bloody shirts for the next 8 years isn’t going to help either.
a brutal GOP primary to come, as the moderate wing of the GOP is savaged by the wacko-wing.
but to replace Johnson? Tragic for the state, great for Dems. 🙂
If the state GOP self-destructs we become a one party state and with that comes corruption and a change in focus from what matters to each rep’s pet projects.
at least in my neck of the woods.
…that while you’re right, come to South Jeffco and realize it is still pretty red down here.
The thing is, aside from a Dem that is either corrupt or inept, I can’t vote R. Because most of the options I see here are atrocious, with few exceptions. But even the less than objectionable ones are mostly bad. Al White may be an exception. But it’s difficult to find good Republicans. (e.g. My utter disappointment with John McCain throughout this cycle).
This is about the worst news possible. I’m starting to hate my House and Senate district. I’m gonna be stuck with this guy forever.
The vacancy committee for HD49 will have to meet fairly soon to replace Lundberg.
“Ray Walter of Windsor and BJ Nikkel of Berthoud are the announced candidates to replace Lundberg.”
http://coloradoan.com/article/…
BJ used to be Marilyn Musgrave’s district director. I can’t recall who Walter is.
they have a Senate candidate for 2010. I’m deeply interested to hear who that will be, aren’t you?
If you can buy a house there, you’re eligable, right?
That’s the chant that the Larimer Dems will use to stave off complacency and keep organized to, among other things, return Betsy Markey to Congress in the 4th CD, State Rep Kefalos and State Rep Fisher and a replacement for the terming-out Bob Bacon in 2010.
The downside is, of course, that the State Senate District loses a good Senator in Johnson who, regardless of his social conservatism, was never a hypocrit or a hater. Johnson likes people and he was able to talk to everyone. Lundberg is an interesting study in a politician of the hard right who gets in and stays in, not really liking “people,” not being curious about “people,” and not really interested in representing “people.” I can’t imagine that a courageous moderate Republican won’t emerge concerned about the increasing ideological irrelevance of the hard right. Expect a primary fight in which Lundberg pulls out all his hateful tools and hands the district over to a Democrat prepared to work hard.
Larimer Democratic Party post-election parties will get funner, bigger and better… ‘tamales and 90 Shilling for everyone!’
It’s too simplistic to say that this is a sign of anything in the GOP other then an office holder succeeded another office holder who resigned.
Unless you can show me that Lynch contacted every person in the vacancy meeting and had articulated a compelling reason to vote against the known quantity, then all of this stuff about the GOP taking a nose dive is utter and complete B.S.
People in these sorts of meetings go with the devil they know instead of the one they don’t. Based on the result, it looks as if Lynch probably didn’t work all that hard for it.
This doesn’t like like a soul of the party fight to me. It looks like a choice between an experienced legislator with an overlapping district v. someone with no political experience. A vacancy committee is almost always going to go with someone familiar to party regulars.
The harder question when it comes to the future and soul of the GOP is what happens when the house seat vacated by Lundberg is filled.