Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper supports Same-Sex Civil Unions

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Friday January 13, 2012 · 9:40 AM PST

2012/01/13 · 09:40

In Governor John Hickenlooper's (Democrat of course) state of the state speech given yesterday at the Colorado capitol building, the governor put his support behind efforts to create same-sex civil unions in Colorado.

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Glenn Beck's new groan thriller

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Thursday May 20, 2010 · 4:49 PM PDT

2010/05/20 · 16:49

Glen Beck apparently wrote a thriller for some reason and I decided to dissect what America's favorite wingnut is writing about in his thriller fiction debut.

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Sunday February 06, 2005 · 8:54 AM PST

2005/02/06 · 08:54

The Denver Post has a great story somewhat critical of Bush's Social Security "reform". More proof that his plan isn't going to fly in the West. Read More

Alabama Boycott

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Sunday November 28, 2004 · 9:22 PM PST

2004/11/28 · 21:22

We had a great conversation about a possible boycott of goods, services, travel, or basically doing any type of business with the state of Alabama here. . Basically, the state's voters decided to vote against an amendment that would rid the state's constitution of segregationist language including refrences to keep different schools "for white and colored children" and refrences to poll taxes aimed at disenfranchising black voters. Read More

Bush's mandate: Margin decreases in 18 states

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Wednesday November 17, 2004 · 7:05 PM PST

2004/11/17 · 19:05

According to the data in this website used in this post , the margin that Bush won in many states decreased from 2000, and Kerry increased the margin of victory from 2000 for Democrats.

In Colorado for example: Bush won with an 8.36% margin over Gore in 2000, but this year he won with a 6.45% margin over Kerry, a difference of -1.91%.

Other states where Bush's margin decreased.
Alaska:-4.15%
Idaho: -1.41%
Maine: -2.91%
Minnesota: -1.05%
Montana: -4.54%
Nevada: -.91%
New Hampshire (from for Bush to for Kerry): -2.65%
North Carolina: -.22%
North Dakota: -.22%
Ohio: -1.12%
Oregon -3.49%
South Dakota: -1.27%
Vermont: -10.28%
Washington: -1.51%
Wisconsin: -.24%
Washington DC: -3.88%
Wyoming: -.22%

So as you can plainly see, Bush's margin decreased or Kerry's gain increased in 18 states over the 2000 election, many of them conservative western states. I am sure the reverse it true in many of the states that Kerry got. However, its interesting to look at it from this point of view as well, and see that Bush didn't win as clear of a mandate in many states as he thinks he did

2006-Lets take back as much as we can

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Saturday November 06, 2004 · 11:14 AM PST

2004/11/06 · 11:14

I know its two years away, but we need to already start looking at senate and governor races for 2006 that we can take.

I compiled a list of all the senate and governor races for 2006, especially in terms of likely takeover. Please share your thoughts and add suggestions.

Senate:
Tennessee-Bill Frist: Senate Majority Leader Frist had already said that he would not run for re-election after this term, which means that this seat could be a very lucrative opportunity for a open-seat pickup. I think Rep. Harold Ford from Nashville might be an excellent choice, as he cruised into his seat this year.

Missouri-Jim Talent- Got in last time after defeating Jean Carnahan who picked up her departed husband's seat after he won in 2000. Carnahan wasn't ever elected so she had problems with getting votes. Not necessarily this time, if we can get a dynamic Democrat who shares the values of a state that seems to be getting more conservative. Any ideas for canidates?

Salazar values

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 3:46 PM PST

2004/11/04 · 15:46

I have been involved with the Salazar campaign a bit, and I think I have an idea on why he was one of the few sucessful senatorial campaigns. Simply, he exudes the "values" of both the conservatives and liberals in red state Colorado.

As the Denver Post said in there endorsement of Salazar below: Read More

Colorado shifting Dem...

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 12:13 PM PST

2004/11/03 · 12:13

Good news in Colorado:

-Democrats took control over both parts of the statehouse.

-Ken Salazar was one of only two Democratic pickups in the entire nation, winning by over 3%

-John Salazar takes very conservative House District # 3 by 4%, one of the few democrat house pickups.

-Less people voted for Bush this year than in 2000. Bush got 8% in 2000, and now only has about 6%.

Gov. Owens is out in 2006. With all this happening, I think Democrats are poised to pick up the governor, and possibly a few more house seats. In 2008, Colorado may be poised to go Democrat all the way.

A little hope when everything looks down.

Are there any other hopeful states out there, that have increased Democrats in the statehouse or congress?

Great Musgrave Parody!!

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Saturday October 02, 2004 · 10:39 PM PDT

2004/10/02 · 22:39

Kenny B has a great new comic in Denver's great indie paper Westword. For a long time, Kenny B's comics have been right on towards local politics in Denver, and this time is the same.

While the comic is obviously farse, it wonderfully shows how horrible Musgrave really is and how important it is that we support her opponent Stan Matsunaka, which of course you can do by going to the Kos Dozen page , and donate some money to Stan so he can beat this one issue Republican out of the house.

Rep. Pense (R-IN), "Expect attacks before the election."

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Wednesday September 29, 2004 · 8:18 AM PDT

2004/09/29 · 08:18

I had the pleasure of meeting this party line Republican through my class. He was the typical Republican, mostly saying the exact same things Bush has said in speeches, etc.

Except for a few things that the International Relations Committee member said were pretty interesting:

"I expect more attacks by the election, probably not in Washington, but other major cities are vulnerable to attacks. We live in a big country, and it seems obvious that we well have an attack in the next five weeks."

And since this is the guy that helped write USAPATRIOT act, he of course thinks we will have to make some sacrifices in the form of freedom if we get attacked again:

"I think that if we have another attach, we can expect to see a country that does not look like America. We may have to give up some freedom to gain freedom and security for the future."

Scary...

Frustrating

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Tuesday August 31, 2004 · 6:16 AM PDT

2004/08/31 · 06:16

For the first time in over two months, Bush has risen ahead of Kerry to claim the needed EV's on electoral-vote.com by 280 to 242.

Maybe, the stupid swift boat attacks were more damaging that we thought, or maybe this is just a GOP convention bounce, or as the site says a result of biased Republican sponsored polling.

Whatever, the case though, Kerry and company need to get their ass in gear during and after the GOP convention to make sure these numbers don't stay this way.

Colorado is tied

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Wednesday August 18, 2004 · 10:02 AM PDT

2004/08/18 · 10:02

A quick look at electoral-vote.com shows that Colorado is very much a swing state, as the latest poll shows that state in an exact tie between Bush and Kerry.

Since the amendment to make Colorado spread its votes popularly has made it to the polls in November, Colorado is an increasingly important state for both candidates.

Although, Republicans make up a majority of the registered voters in the state, Colorado has one of the most independent voters of any state.

Lets see Kerry come to the state and rally up those voters, and no matter what happens with the amendment in November, he has a real shot of beating Bush where Bush thought he had easily.

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