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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Jena Griswold
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
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Sec. of State
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(D) George Stern
(R) Sheri Davis
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State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%
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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*
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90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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80%
40%
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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40%
40%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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March 16, 2009 09:06 PM UTC
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so I’ll just pretend to know while looking over RedGreen’s shoulder at his sheet…
Consider the Political Tournament a race towards a big final political office. But in the meantime, in each matchup, consider the two candidates in a hypothetical statewide political race. For example, if Mark Udall and Scott Renfroe were running against each other for a statewide office, who would win? You choose the winner of that race and move them on to the next round.
I thought it was some kind of bingo thing.
What? I’m like totally in touch with guy stuff and such. Really with it. Off the hook. Not just outside the box, but all around the box, teaching it a new definition of pain by swallowing it and digesting it slowly over 1000 years.
Final Four: Romanoff vs. Udall, Salazar vs. Hickenlooper
Championship: Salazar over Romanoff
Our “senior” senator who was just elected by a massive margin? Admittedly against a right-wing crazy, but still…
Final Four:
Ritter vs. Udall, Salazar vs. Perlmutter
Champioinship: Udall over Perlmutter
(although I think that if Salazar were to defeat Perlmutter he’d go on to win against the big U too).
I was factoring in the (predictable) drop-off in support for Udall among the far-left.
http://www.squarestate.net/dia…
to set the rules, after your resounding win?
OK, everyone take the rest of the week off. Call it ‘the Galt’ tactic or something, averting socialism, and read some bad literature while you’re at it.
Hello, pols, you only have twelve women in the whole grid? Do you live in the same state I do?
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who are the next 10 women you would have included ?
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Pat Waak?
Betty Boyd?
Jennifer Veiga?
Gwen Green?
Karen Middleton?
Beth McCann?
Christine Scanlan?
Amy Stephens?
Stephanie O’Malley?
Carol Boigon?
Each of whom would be stronger, in my opinion, than the number 16 seed in their respective divisions…
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and no, none of these women holds a candle to Rep. Schultheis, who I’m picking as the next National GOP chair (if Steele steps down next week.)
And where is Dick Wadhams ?
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And unfortunately, this state doesn’t elect a lot of women to higher office. Who are the high-profile female politicians that we missed? We went with primarily higher-profile names so that you would conceivably know who most of the people in the bracket were.
And remind you of Linda Newell, Mary Lou Makepeace, Rosemary Rodriguez, Gail Schoettler, and innumerable nonprofit, business and philanthropic leaders who could make a sideways leap, like Barbara O’Brien or John Hickenlooper did, into political leadership. At the very least replace Hassan with the woman who HANDILY defeated him: Christine Scanlon.
will make the leap to statewide office. She may well be term limited, but don’t kid yourself, she’s not finished yet….
We’re not trying to conjure up theoretical candidates – man, woman or child – from “nonprofit, business and philanthropic leaders.” It’s not like we’ve spent the last week poring over this. There’s no actual prize.
And besides, the #16 seed is a throwaway – they have no chance at beating the #1 seed. That’s why Renfroe and Schultheis are there – it reflects that they are politically frozen more than anything. It’s not a good thing to be a #16 seed.
Every time there is a list of leaders in the state, even one that is intended as a joke like this one, that comes out with women not even making the 25% threshold, well, forgive us for being a mite testy.
Arvadonian, sorry for not thinking of Betty Boyd myself. Good catch.
but I have to agree with libgirl on this. It is better to be a 16th seed than to not be invited to the “Big Dance” at all….
Perhaps you should have left Renfroe, Schultheis and Hassan out and taken Boyd, Scanlan and Middleton a bit more seriously.
Perhaps you are underestimating your own influence….this may just be a “fun” exercise done in jest, but when the #1 Political Website in the state hosts it, it is going to be taken seriously in certain circles….
Colorado is one of the very top states in the nation for percentage of women in the state legislature.
Look at Finland or Norway, where women hold office at all levels and they hold government in high regard.
I’d love to see a regression analysis comparing professionalization and female representation. It is a plausible argument, but I’m not sure it would hold up. I would expect more liberal states or Western states (Wyoming had the first female elected official) to be more indicative.
I ran a simple multivariate regression considering the relative effect of session days, compensation, and Obama vote percentage.
Neither session length nor compensation were significant indicators of female representation in state legislature (they were not even particularly correlated (both below .2, and in both cases positively related, contrary to your prediction). For every additional percentage of the vote a state gave to Obama, we would expect an additional half percent of representation of women in the state legislature.
FWIW, states with longer sessions obviously paid more on average. And these states tended to vote for Obama more strongly.
Shafroth over Brophy : why? because Will landed Deputy Asst. Sec. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks job in D.C. this month.
Romer over Suthers : Suthers is going to lose Att. Gen. seat in 2010.
M. Carroll over B. Schaffer : Carroll becomes Att. Gen. in 2010 (Quick decides not to run)
Mark F. over Terrance C. ; Huge upset. Just because Mark used to live in Thornton before he moved to Denver!
Tapia over McInnis : McInnis decides not to run for statewide office in 2010.
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down in the regional brackets, and vice versa ?
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“Statewide” = rest of the state.
I just got it.
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Congressman Lamborn’s seeding seems a little low to me.
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the Dean of the Colorado Republican Delegation.
Just remember that it is further from Denver to ______ than it is from________ to Denver. (Fill in the blank with the appropriate city, e.g. Durango, Grand Junction, Pueblo.
For some reason, Greeley and Ft Collins don’t fit this pattern.
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Your Rep is seeded #1.
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Are done by region in terms of where they live. We had to make some changes just to make sure there were mostly Democrat vs. Republican matchups in the first round.
If we created a Northern Colorado/Eastern Plains division that was strict in sticking with where politicians lived, the bracket would be mostly Republicans. We tried to create a bracket that spread out the “top seeds” as much as possible.
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I wouldn’t have included Doug Bruce – I think his appetite for public office has been sated.
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He’s irresistible.
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He’ll be ticked, but never pink.
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…oh dear, is my caps lock stuck again?
When I try to open the “bracket,” Windows Vista (bitches!) tells me that a drawing error has occurred. Why can’t you people draw?
lies not in the brackets but in your operating system.
…I mean they CAN read, right, cuz they operate from somewhere close to Seattle.
in your installation of Adobe Acribat Reader. Just saying…
…but really do I have re-install Adobe? Dammit to hell! Why do the computer gods hate me so.
I can send mine to Alva if that’d be easiest.