ELECTION 2014 - Merged Threads

[Ronin13]

And thank all the idiots who voted republican instead of libertarian.

Congrats, it's people like you that are the reason Lickenpooper is still governor.

Yep, Beuprez was in the lead until Boulder County votes were counted. I knew it was over then. If you look at the map of voting, there's a lot more red than blue but I guess the Front Range knows whats best for everyone. Of course there were those "wasted" votes for Harry Hempy (really?) and Matthew Hess (Libertarian) which, had they gone with Beuprez would have tilted the scale.

Hempy was green party- I think more ganja smoking hippies vote that direction than conservatives. More appropriate is Hess and Dunafon that garnered a healthy 54,000+ votes that could have easily swayed in Beauprez's favor.

I get it, I'm in no way a fan of the current 2 party system, especially when we have republicans running around acting like righteous d-bags and harping on extreme-right issues like gay marriage and abortion that do nothing but alienate any potential independents. However, as has been said before, the object here was to get rid of Hick and try to change the state away from being a blue, anti-freedom, tough to own a gun CA, jr. That failed, at least on the lawn of the Governor's Mansion. If yesterday was the day to stand and fight, then tomorrow might be the day to seek our more friendly pastures. I have my doubts about Colorado ever going red again, at least not like it was before CODA and the Gang of Four came along. It's a shame I just accepted a job and will be stuck here for at least 3 years. I have a feeling Hick will continue to ruin this state and be a flip flopping spineless coward. Dunlap will live. Justice will falter. And we'll continue to live under UBCs and used magazines.

Again, someone explain why voting for a candidate that garners 1.1-1.8% of the vote is doing anything but tossing your ballet in the garbage? Yeah, that's really fucking changing things there. Brace yourselves, here come the "We heard this same song and dance with Romney/Obama in '12, anything to get rid of Obama." Yeah, and you 3rd party folks didn't listen that time either. I won't be the one to harp and whine on the 3rd party people without a viable solution- so here it is: if your 3rd party cannot amount to more than 3% of the vote (that's giving them a lot more than what we've seen, Gary Johnson got .9%) then what about trying to change one of the parties... enough voices will eventually become a catalyst for change, it happened with the progressive movement within the Democrat party, and it looked like it was going somewhere with the Tea Party movement within the Republican party (see the 2010 shakeup). Why not instead of protest and huff and go "I'm never voting for those meanie face republicans again!" rise up and say "Let's change this party. It looks too much like the Democrat party, we need to make it better!" So many are willing to jump ship and try out a different boat, but that different boat is way too small and too leaky to make the voyage. Why not fix the ship you were on instead? I would apply this same logic to Colorado, but I repeat my previous fear that I think this is going to be a fairly blue state for quite some time... Considering Boulder and Denver are doing nothing but expanding.