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"The people on the right, are not very bright"
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2020. Half Over? or HOLY SHIT WHAT'S NEXT?

 

I'm scared to ask.

 

This race will be interesting because it is a look at how political affiliations in Colorado are changing. The heart of the Democratic parties support from the time it was founded until the beginning of this century was in Denver, Adams (an industrial suburb of Denver) , Pueblo and the southern Colorado counties with large Hispanic populations and miners. Boulder County went Democratic after 18 year-olds got the right to vote.

But in 2016 Pueblo and Huerfano County went for Trump. This was a repeat of what happened nationwide among rural voters. Statewide it made no difference because the Denver suburbs were swinging Democratic. It was those changes that allowed the Democrats to take over the state politically in 2018 (for non-Coloradans Republicans had dominated Colorado politically from 1962 until about 2006. For some reason, though, the state rarely voted for Republican governors in the latter part of that period).

The Democrats hope is Mitsch Bush can regain traditional Democratic support in Pueblo County (Tipton carried it by two points in 2018) and some other southern Colorado counties to lift her over the top. The ski towns in the district will overwhelmingly support Mitsch Bush.

Colorado will get another Congressional seat due to population growth in the next reapportionment. The governor is Democratic and if the Dems continue to control both houses of the legislature Mitsch Bush can then be gerrymandered into a safer district if she ekes out a win this time.

And allow me to give a plug for a great website, Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential elections. He has a wealth of free material on that site.

 

It’s a 14-word sentence, and if you count the hashtag and spaces you hit the magic 14/88.

Again.

 

I would just like to point out that in the last week alone, we've seen the alleged President of the United States retweet people screaming "White Power", retweet a photo of gun-toting people threatening peaceful protesters, has been caught red-handed either ignoring intelligence about people being paid off to kill our soldiers or knew about it and has chosen to say nothing. And oh yeah, we're still in a pandemic that has killed 125,000+ Americans and looks like it's worsening.

Just in the last week alone.

 

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