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“I don’t have a feel for Colorado. Anyone with any insight? Thanks “
Yeah, we’ve been overrun by coastal urbanite bug-people.
Too much pot, not much motivation.
Lots of issues on ballots 3 to 4 pages.
“More than 360,000 ballots have already been returned in Colorado, but the numbers are lagging behind return numbers from the previous midterm election.”
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I hope the Democrats are demoralized and hoping the Republicans and others who decide to vote Republican are those voting early.
Still hope it’s a GOP strong vote on Election Day.
Those comparisons don’t look good.
I live here and have for a long time.
We went to a friends ‘red-wave’ party to talk through the issues and fill out our ballots. Great group, obviously leaning right, which meant we could actually talk openly and not get screamed at by crazy people. We didn’t agree on everything, which was 100% fine! No safe spaces. One tiny dog. And no one cried. It was awesome.
This state, however, has been over-run with people from CA etc. J. Pollis is very likely our next gov. (barf), but honestly the (R) option, Stapleton, was...well...less than inspirational. Most of the obvious issues should fail, like the insane tax increase supposedly for schools. Way too much $$$.
Much of the stuff that LS is posting is comparing 2016 and 2018, while 2014 was the last midterm.
That said, it was a very strong GOP midterm. No Dem motivation. You can’t compare it really to that.
I think 2016 is a better comparison because turnout this year will probably be closer to 2016 than 2014.
Republicans were slightly ahead on election eve of 2016. It turned out poorly. Unaffiliateds broke Democratic, and Hillary won the state by three points.. The state is turning blue.
If I am reading it right, Dems are down ~35,000 but Republican are down ~94,000
That doesn’t sound good.
Even though the numbers are lagging, I’m sure the Colorado vote is pretty “high”.
I voted yesterday for all republican in Colorado, and no democrat.
No tax increases, and no amending constitution crap.
I usually vote, NO, for judge retaining, but there was one Adams County judge that I was with on jury duty. The guys awesome, so I voted for him to stay.
Sadly, I was the only one there voting. But most people are working at that time of day.
Unaffiliated voters lean D
I expect Polis to win. Im a Colorado conservative independent.
Who writes todays headlines?!?!
How does this Early Vote compare to 2016 and 2014 at the same time?
In Colorado early returns are MEANINGLESS this time around, since over HALF were received A WEEK LATE!!!
Voting may not be high because Coloradans are high.
Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans, and "Independents" outnumber both parties.
(D=1,003,434/ R=995,090/ I=1,163,751) Source: Colorado Secretary of State, Active Voter Registrations)
The "Independents" tend to vote Democrat by slightly more than 50%.
Stapleton (R) has run a very quiet campaign that has done very little to fire up the Republicans or the Independents. I expect that Jared Polis (D) will be elected as the next Governor.
I do believe that all of the amendment proposals to increase taxes will fail.
There are many people in rural CO from places like New York, New Jersey, California, Washington, Nevada, Eastern Europe, Germany, Somalia, etc.