Excitement mounts among Colorado GOP: ‘Republican ballots are pouring in’(12% over Dems)

Washington Times ^ | October 25, 2014 | Nicholas Riccardi

[Red Steel]

New numbers come out on Wednesday and Friday. Maintain the large spread by Friday and the Dems will be reaching for the hara-kiri swords.

[Red Steel]

kdvr -

“Of those voters 32 percent are Democrats, 43 percent are Republicans and 24 percent are unaffiliated voters.

Political pundits FOX31 Denver talked to expressed surprise at the size of the Republican advantage so far, but all sides agree you can’t read much, if anything into the numbers at this point.

[Actually these trends usually hold up in elections. The question is how many more Rs ballots will be casted higher than Dem ballots?]

They note that this is the first time Colorado has used this ballot system and no one really knows what to expect. And the final vote count won’t take place until after the polls close at 7 p.m. next Tuesday and a lot of things can change by then.

The next return results will come out Wednesday.

Meanwhile, county clerks note people are running out of time to mail in their ballots.”

http://kdvr.com/2014/10/27/early-voting-returns-more-republicans-voting-in-colorado-so-far/

Hey Ds, mail your ballots anytime as they will get there on November 5th for sure. ;-)

[Red Steel]

Beauprez has leaped over the Gov Hickster with a week to go.

“DOWN TO THE WIRE: Rasmussen Has Beauprez Up Two, Still Too Close To Call(Colorado - it’s 49% to 47%)”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3220617/posts

[Jane Long]

Champagne 👍

[laplata]

Thank you!

[laplata]

Excellent! Thanks, RS.

BTW, my Hard Drive crashed yesterday. I’m glad it crashed then rather than next Tues. LOL

[Red Steel]

Yeah, better than Tuesday when the fireworks begin. ;-)

Dims are about to hit the panic button with only six days left.

The Colorado scoreboard.

D: 294,648 (32.5%)

R: 379,258 (41.8%)

U: 222,043 (24.5%)

Dems lost ground again in the ballot turnout. Ds lost - losing from 69k to now an 85k lead for the Repubs.

These two big bellwether counties are taking care of business

Jefferson County (Total: 124,806)

D: 40,032 (32.1%)

R: 49,672 (39.8%)

U: 33,669 (27%)

Arapahoe County (Total: 104,413)

D: 34,299 (32.8%)

R: 44,103 (42.2%)

U: 25,094 (27%)

El Paso, county Rs 58,558 is taking care of Denver's 51,066 D votes.

Douglas County (Castle Rock) is negating Boulder, and we are looking at a big win. :-)

We've reached the 50% mark at 905,500 votes today of the 1.8 million votes for the 2010 mid-terms.

Projecting the trend, we are going to see Reps with 150k to 200k over the Dems in ballots returned. I'll take a 100,000 at least, which is still several times over than squeaking it over the Ds in the last elections.

Turnout results 2014 General Election 10/29/2014

[laplata]

Gotta love it! Thanks very much, Red Steel.

[EDINVA]

And do I take it that each county opens/counts the returned ballots, or just checks off the name of the person from whom it is received (who is registered as a R or a D?)

[Red Steel]

They just check off the name and note the party.

[EDINVA]

Thanks. Isn’t it the case that absentee ballots aren’t counted unless and until there is a vote so close that they can affect the outcome? Or is that only provisional ballots? As I think of it, locally we DO count absentee ballots.

[MileHi]

Even though I don’t live there anymore, I would love to see fest eddy perlmutter taken down.

[Red Steel]

Theses days, I think about all CO ballots are counted since all of them are mailed in except maybe a few. When I voted absentee, I checked to see if they counted and they told me or I read somewhere that they were.

Oh new poll. Looper and Udall are almost cooked.

“Quinnipiac: Male Voters ‘Going Republican’ Give Beauprez Lead In Poll (Colorado - 45% to 40%) kcnc ^ | October 29, 2014 8:18 AM”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221006/posts

[laplata]

Oh new poll. Looper and Udall are almost cooked.

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And they get cooked for another 6 days. It smells good.

[EDINVA]

OK, so it kinda makes sense that CO has mailed in ballots, tho I don’t generally like the concept. I’m one of those who’d prefer one day of voting, and purple thumbs.

In VA you have to have one of a limited number of excuses to cast an absentee ballot. Otherwise get your sorry butt to the polls on election day.

[Red Steel]

The Colorado all mail in ballots was jammed through by the Dems last year without a single R vote in the state legislature. There was 2 recalled Dim state senators, and 1 resigned in fear of losing their 1 Dem senate seat majority. The Dems could then reappoint another D to that seat. They thought to pad their odds of winning, but it appears to be backfiring on them.

If the Rs take the legislature and governorship, which is a very good possibility, I expect them to re-tighten the election laws.

[laplata]

If the Rs take the legislature and governorship, which is a very good possibility, I expect them to re-tighten the election laws.

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We’ll need to hold their feet to the fire and demand that they do exactly that.