So all whining aside, where's the best place to keep an eye on the state house numbers? 9news has a lot of the results posted - how many 2014 house seats did we have to win to make the majority?
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So all whining aside, where's the best place to keep an eye on the state house numbers? 9news has a lot of the results posted - how many 2014 house seats did we have to win to make the majority?
I live in Thornton, so yes, I am in Denver every week and Boulder once a month. Boulder and Denver together have far fewer registered Democrats than two counties combined in Maryland. Colorado hasn't shown a tenth the ability to commit machine politics voter fraud that Illinois has been the pioneer for, and Massachusetts sent Ted "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy back to the US Senate for a total of 47 years. I refuse to believe that the Democratic Party has taken hold of Colorado to the same extant as those three bastions of Democratic Party fiefdom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superorb
I shake my head because there are people who somehow believe that John Hickenlooper is a moderate, and there are people who seem to think that voting for Matthew Hess would bring them the Change they Hoped for. Good luck with that.
I'm just glad it is over with. I want to buy standard capacity magazines again and have them shipped to my house. I want to meet some fine board member in a parking lot at Cabelas and buy a gun. I want to do all these things because two years ago they were both legal and now that they are illegal, not a damn thing has happened to make any victim safer from the crimes that were committed against them. Just my rights being infringed so some dumb ass can FEEL better. Sign it Hick, because you can [Rant1]
The Independent voter who (is not mentioned in this thread) picked Hick, again. Beauprex was as mentioned, non-existent message wise. The rest is could have, should have, would have.Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone
Hopefully Gardner might be a rising star in the R party.
I really like Gardner...so far. Let's hope he keeps the path.
Has anyone grumbled about the senate seat in Louisiana yet? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elec...aces/louisiana
Landrieu somehow got 42% of the vote, Cassidy (R) getting 16,500 less votes for 41%. MEANWHILE Rob Maness *also* ran as a republican, and captured 202,000 votes for 14%. So it's going to be a runoff. Here's a quick question, why the F didn't maness drop out of the race when it was clear that he was 30 points down on the major republican candidate?
Further, thank libertarian Sarvis in Virginia for taking 53,000 votes, when Ed Gillespie (R) is losing to mark warner (D) by 12,500 votes. That could have been a Major upset. Way to send a message to washington by keeping a democrat in power. GG.
lol @ a 3rd party 'taking' votes from a Republican candidate. A couple points of contention here 1) people vote for who they want to vote for so it's up to the R to do a better job of EARNING votes and 2) the 3rd party candidate may not give a hobo's crap who actually wins between the D & R candidate so why wouldn't he try to earn as many votes as possible for HIM and HIS party and HIS supporters? I'm more surprised that other 3rd party candidates tap out to make it easier for either one to win. The further the GOP goes to the right the less votes they get, the less the 3rd parties feel in common with them and the more votes those independent parties seem to get. Weird.
I must disagree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
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Bold Distinctions – The Quietly Avoided Obvious….
Posted on November 5, 2014 by sundance
It was called “a key Senate race”. Millions and millions of dollars were spent. It was the one Senate race where the Tea party candidate campaigned boldly against the Democrat opponent. Two of the biggest named Democrats campaigned for the Democrat Senate Candidate:
https://theconservativetreehouse.fil...pg?w=640&h=445
Two of the biggest Democrat names in the entire country called this their home state. It is the home state of the former beloved President of all things progressive and wonderful. The race was supposed to be tight, but the Democrats had all the advantages.
The Republican candidate wasn’t just a pesky Republican; The media proclaimed he’s themost conservative of the Republican candidates. His positions were supposed to be the most far away from the electorate in this home state of the most wonderful of all Democrats. The conservative was the most right-wing nutted right wing nut of the entire field, “an extremist” – or so “they” said.
So what was the result in this race where the right-wing nut was against the Democrat light bringer?
ONLY the largest margin of victory in the entire Senate field.
https://theconservativetreehouse.fil...pg?w=640&h=246
A 17 point victory !
Any questions?
On the flip side this is important.Quote:
Originally Posted by KestrelBike
"Tonight you have made history!" Love told supporters after winning the state's fourth House district. "Many of the naysayers out there said that Utah would never elect a black Republican LDS (Latter-day Saint) woman to Congress. Not only did we do it, we were the first to do it!"
Love edged Democrat Doug Owens to win the open seat.
"I wasn't elected because of the color of my skin," Love told CNN Wednesday morning. "I wasn't elected because of my gender. I was elected because of the solution I put at the table."
this too
Tim Scott won in South Carolina, becoming the first African-American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate and elected to a statewide office.
Scott defeated another African-American, Democratic challenger Joyce Dickerson, and third-party candidate Jill Bossi. Scott,
Both of them being R's ,not to mention 3 other R woman who won .
Celebrate Diversity!
How's that been working out for us?
I just went to the Sec of State website added up the results as of 11:34 am. It appears that the R's are +1 (33 R to 32 D) right now. I have no idea if those are still fluid with the outstanding votes left around the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian
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Originally Posted by Brian
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Colorad...17c60fbf73875c
From KMGH.com:
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Hickenlooper will have to team with a state legislature that will be run by the Republicans.
No reason not to make him squirm with a host of pro-gun bills...
But they certainly condone illegals voting. Last election I was behind a couple who spoke Spanish, had no ID, and the poll worker confirmed they were not registered to vote in Adams county (or anywhere most likely). Yet they still allowed them to vote. Meanwhile, wife and I had to fill out a paper ballot that were both never counted according to the tracking numbers. Something about us getting mail in ballots and not sending them in.Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone
But there's no reason for him to sign any of the bills that come across his desk. The buck stops with Hick, and he can easily veto to placate his agenda and those who pull his strings.Quote:
Originally Posted by .455_Hunter
Would love for the CO legislature to also run some voter ID laws past his desk, see him reject it and be in favor of illegal voting.
We'll just give them the name of 'Common Sense, non-extreme Mag Ban Fix' and 'Denver/Boulder Fracking Ban' and add the repeal of the two bad gun laws as amendments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superorb
It's no use Fox, their hearts are bigger than your logic...Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
OK, I feel better...my new pistol upper was just dropped off at the door
Then he can veto enough bills to get himself recalled. and with the race as close as it is now I think that is a good possibility if he starts doing things that Coloradoans dislike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superorb
Nonetheless, there will always be Cubs fans, no matter how bad the team is. Some of the third party thing has to be a martyr complex. The only viable way to get a libertarian into office under the current system is to "sneak" them in disguised as a Republican or Democrat, because too many voters vote on autopilot. I wonder: How different would our elections be if the voters had to write in the name of the person they wanted to elect? Or even if the ballots had no information about party affiliation on them?
Thor's hammer right here. thank you for taking the time to articulate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
Just disallow anyone who is not a net-payer of taxes from voting.
They should not get a say in how taxes are spent.
Want to vote? Get a job, get off welfare, and go vote.
Problem solved.
The guy should be recalled for all the no bid contracts coming out of OIT costing the state millions of dollars. What he is doing there is criminal; nothing more then a money laundering organization.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
Now some stations are reporting that the senate swap may be in question.
Who knows...
One principle that seems to hold true is that the longer time an election or recall drags out, the more D ballots seem to be magically "found".
I truly believe that nobody on public assistance should vote; it is a conflict of interest at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by davsel
Seeing as how you are clearly pissed at anyone who may have, in your mind, cost Beauprez the election by voting 3rd party AND you have the power to ban people...I am going to attempt to tread lightly in my response.Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
You do a couple of things in your post that are bothersome...you attempt to make anyone that disagrees with your post as unintelligent which is page 1 column 1 out of the Democrat playbook. You also insinuate that 3rd party voters are lazy because they support a 3rd party candidate as well as accusing them of not working towards change inside the Republican party. I have to disagree on both counts because you cast a wide net with those two points and they are almost completely inaccurate when it comes to any 3rd party supporter that I've ever met.
The lazy, utopian type people you speak of are the occupy wall street people. Jobless, helpless and anarchist. 3rd party supporters that I've come across are thoughtful, intelligent, generous people who want nothing but the best for this country. You may be upset with the amount of votes that Hess, Hempy, Dunafon and Fiorino recieved...but what I see when I look at the polls is 85,578 people (as it stands currently) in this state who had the courage to stand up and say "Hickenlooper or Beauprez...this isn't good enough for us". If you really want to be pissed at someone today, Beauprez is the man you should be pissed at. If Beauprez ran a campaign instead of (I think it was Jer that said this) "I'm not him (Hick), so vote for me!" then he could have earned some of those 85,000+ votes. He didn't, and that's why he lost.
In short, agree to disagree [Beer]
Funny your attitude changes when talking to a Mod...Quote:
Originally Posted by PugnacAutMortem
Your damn skippy it does. I like being on here because I like talking about this kind of stuff. Only an idiot would bitch out a mod on a day like today after a post like he posted. I let em swing all the time pal...but i don't let them get caught in a door. You only do that one time, and once is enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by hurley842002
Why do I feel like I am caught in my zipper?
Somehow my district in JeffCo voted for Gardner (just barely) but voted for the Dem tool Perlmutter for US Rep by a wide margin, Hick by a wide margin, State Rep went to a Dem by a wide margin and State Sen went to a Dem. I'm not happy about those results. I am thrilled that the Country made some changes but this state is what is most important to me and my district voted for the a-holes that hate the 2nd. Ugh.
Mandy Connell proposed this idea on her radio show a few weeks back, and I love the idea. Make people actually look up who it is they want to vote for rather than voting a straight ticket.Quote:
Originally Posted by TFOGGER
Of course, it'd probably be decried as "unfair" and "racist" and "disenfranchises the poor person working 18 hours a day who doesn't have the time to do all their research" or something.
When I lived in VA there were people out in front of the polling stations (working for either the R or the D party) handing out sample ballots with either straight D or R marked for your convenience. While I like the idea of not having the party affiliation on the ballot, I'm sure that would lead to more instances where people stand in front of the polling station telling people who to vote for...which is just as bad in my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by RblDiver
If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It HardcoverQuote:
Originally Posted by davsel
I would vote for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by davsel
Of course, nobody on public assistance would vote themselves into slavery (that's how they'd see it)
...and I see this vehicle in front of me last night on I-25 and 23rd st ish.
I just had a gut feeling that it was Rapsheet's car.
http://i58.tinypic.com/ion1ic.jpg
The Dems hated Ralph Nader the same way the Reps hated Ross Perot. When you lose by a slim margin and the 3rd party candidate closest to your candidate gets enough votes to swing the election in the other direction, the issue is clear.
Ideology is good. Being in a position to affect change to bring about your ideology is better.
Elections are about winning. If you can't win, and as of today in 2014, the Green Party, CPUSA, and the Libertarian Party are not in a position to win statewide elections in Colorado. Not now. Not in the recent past. Not in the near future.
Be idealistic and live with the opposite of what you want OR choke down your idealism and try to win and get a part of what you want.
As usual, cstone comes to the thread bearing gifts of wisdom.Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone