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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) David Seligman
40%
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Sec. of State
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
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40%
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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*
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90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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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*
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90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
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40%↑
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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March 06, 2009 10:58 PM UTC
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What’s in the budget? Golly gee, but that would involve reading it! Maybe even doing interviews!
Much easier to just reprint a press release. “According to Republicans, …” “Republicans expressed disappointment over…” “Tom Delay chastised…”
Then if absolutely necessary, for balance, try to contact the other side. “A blue dog could not be found to comment by press time. In fact most dogs are not blue. They are somewhat brown or possibly yellowish.”
You’ve got to say one thing for Republicans: their press releases may not make “sense” or have any “truth” to them, but they do emit them regularly.
Apparently not enough.
Apparently, it now operates on the principle that if you don’t have a legitimate attack to level against the opposition just lie about them. All they are doing is undermining their credibility.
The Republican Party doesn’t go after Democrats on policy grounds because they don’t believe the government should exist. All that is left is this . . . fictional press releases based on someone’s imagination.
Tucker Carlson was referring to at CPAC when he got booed for saying that the NYT at least spells names right, gets correct dates etc. and the right ought to take note of that. It was his way of saying that the right has a credibility problem based on putting stuff out there that simply isn’t true and they didn’t want to hear it. I guess they have THEIR reality just like Rove had HIS numbers in 2006 when he swore the Dems were NOT taking over congress.
The Blue Dogs cap their membership at a set percent of the total number of Democrats in Congress. I believe it’s now at 21%. There is a waiting list to be accepted into the BD caucus currently.
The New Democrats have a higher threshhold, and the Progressives an even higher number, but none have more than 40% of the total Democrats in Congress, even when you include overlaps between multiple caucuses.
Given my penchant for piling up utterly useless congressional info, I’m surprised I didn’t know that. Thanks.
Junior year of college I had a relatively easy job on campus, and took it upon myself to learn every Congressperson and district, along with general locations and whatnot. I was very bored, but it’s come in handy for random trivia.
Republican ideological caucuses, interestingly, don’t seem to have the same requirements. The Republican Study Committee, for example, will let in any Representative who supports their conservative planks. They number near 100, larger than any of the “Big 3” Dem caucuses.
Her support for card check in that district will cost her dearly. Even the voters of the Democrat stronghold of the district — Fort Collins — overwhelmingly opposed a big union measure recently at the polls.
she is only out ahead of the curve, remember, the President is pushing the Employee Free Choice Act, and most people don’t know much about it.
But they do know Obama, and he has 71% approval.
If he is behind it, the floundering R’s will not be able to stop it.
Obama will ultimately have to make the case that this is a good idea. Popularity buys him the attention to do so. I don’t think he’ll succeed in convincing the majority of CD-4 that EFCA is a good policy.
That said, though, “Markey’s toast” is a bit ridiculous. This issue will get used in a few ads against her. But the focus of any campaign against a Democrat in a majority Republican district in 2010 is going to be on the the same old Republican canards: taxes and spending. Markey has a tough election in front of her, and she always has. Thinking that the EFCA is going to decide an election two years out is just plain silly though; we are 45 days into the first of two legislative sessions, for goodness sake!
And it will not go over well in that district at all.
And when Markey wins in ’10 by 7 points, what will your excuse be? I know you’ll have one.
People who use “Democrat” as an adjective don’t love America or her first language, English.
And just like Libertad, I expect you’ll blame teachers for your not knowing that Democrat is a noun, and that Democratic (or democratic) is an adjective, once again demonstrating the hypocrisy of those who rail against government, but expect it to solve all of their problems. If you had just worked harder in school, you might have learned this.
My 5th-grader knows the difference between a noun and an adjective. But then again, he knows that school is important.
Why should it be any harder to join a union than say….the Chamber of Comerce?
The hell you say. Republicans? Lying?!
Sorry, it really should be shocking though. The fact that we are all not shocked and outraged every time Republicans brazenly lie is part of what is wrong with America.