ELECTION 2014 - Merged Threads

[Brian]

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?

[cstone]

Been to Boulder or Denver lately? Densely packed liberals will do that to elections. So will voting illegals.

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.

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

[Great-Kazoo]

I am shaking my head wondering how Massachusetts, Maryland, and Illinois all get Republican governors and Colorado retains a Democrat.

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.

Hopefully Gardner might be a rising star in the R party.

[Dave_L]

I really like Gardner...so far. Let's hope he keeps the path.

[KestrelBike]

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.

[Jer]

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.

[davsel]

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:

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:

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.


A 17 point victory !

Any questions?

[Great-Kazoo]

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.

On the flip side this is important.
"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 .

[davsel]

Celebrate Diversity!
How's that been working out for us?

[.455_Hunter]

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 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.