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Colorado early voting: GOP blows out Dems
The Hill ^ | Novermber 1, 2014 | Bernie Becker

Posted on 11/01/2014 10:32:42 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Republicans are blowing out Democrats in Colorado early voting, the secretary of State there says.

ADVERTISEMENT According to the Associated Press, 104,000 more GOP voters have taken advantage of early voting in Colorado than Democrats. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) is trailing his Republican opponent, Rep. Cory Gardner, in most polls. A loss by Udall would make it exceedingly difficult for Democrats to retain control of the Senate.

Colorado’s Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper, is also in a tight race as he seeks a second term. Historically Democratic voters have long been more likely to stay at home in midterm elections, and the party’s base is also unhappy or disaffected with many of their leaders.

The AP said that 41 percent of the 1.1 million early ballots were from Republicans, with roughly a third coming from Democrats and a quarter from independent voters. Colorado’s voters are basically evenly split among the three groups.

Republicans said those results showed how strong a position they were in, after the GOP has tried to modernize its get-out-the-vote efforts on social media and other platforms.

Older voters – more likely to side with the GOP – have voted early in bigger numbers, and younger Republican voters have even outvoted their Democratic counterparts.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: co; colorado; elections; gardner; senateraces
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To: AuH2ORepublican

It’s too bad Beauprez and a GOP legislature couldn’t redistrict both the federal & state lines for 2016. Make the 1st and 2nd hyper-Dem and leave the other 5 seats winnable for the GOP.


61 posted on 11/02/2014 5:55:48 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Gov. Bill Owens and the GOP legislature tried that in 2003, but the state courts struck them down. Sadly, I think the courts might do it again if a mid-decade redistricting was attempted.


62 posted on 11/02/2014 6:02:43 PM PST by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief (Our Joe Wilson can take the Dems' Joe Wilson any day of the week)
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To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief

I remember that. The Dems are free to do their worst, but heaven forbid the GOP has a free hand.


63 posted on 11/02/2014 6:15:33 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

When the GOP tried to refedistrict in 2003 (a judge had drawn maps for 2002 when the split legislature deadlocked), the CO Supreme Court ruled that CO lines could only be redrawn once per decade.


64 posted on 11/02/2014 6:56:52 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; AuH2ORepublican

Could you draw a 5-2 in CO or would a 4-3 be safer?


65 posted on 11/02/2014 8:07:11 PM PST by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy; AuH2ORepublican; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief

4-3 would probably be safer, though I think 5-2 isn’t impossible. However, noting the unfortunate Californication of the state, we’d probably have to shoot for the former. For a brief time in the ‘90s, had the GOP a free hand, they could’ve gotten a 5-1 delegation (as Boulder’s 2nd became briefly marginal — hell, even the 1st reached the point that the late Joe Rogers scared Patsy Schroeder into retirement).


66 posted on 11/02/2014 8:19:18 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief

5-2 would be safe enough if one is creative, such as connecting heavily RAT parts of Pueblo to Boulder through rural Hispanic counties and liberal ski counties.


67 posted on 11/02/2014 8:59:36 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; Impy
I had actually used Dave's Redistricting App to create a 5-2 CO map a while ago. I turned CO-2 into a massive Democratic vote sink by taking in Boulder, then running down into east Jefferson County and a large chunk of western Adams County - basically all the stuff Ed Perlmutter represents now - and then taking it up to the most Dem precincts of Fort Collins and also swiping Aspen and as many of the liberal ski resorts as I could. I ended up with a 70%-28% Obama 08 district. With CO-1, I had it take in the most Democratic parts of Aurora. Finally, concerning Pueblo, I moved it into the CO-5. This was actually in the GOP plan passed in 2003 that was struck down by the state courts. The district still is strongly Republican, with McCain winning it 55%-43%.

I ended up making a new CO-7 that was basically the old CO-4 pre-2012 redistricting, just minus several heavy-GOP Eastern Plains counties but also without heavy Dem precincts in Fort Collins, so it balances out. CO-6 is much the same as it was, with Littleton, Columbine, some of Lakewood, much of southern Arapahoe County and northern Douglas County. I drew up a new CO-4 that actually has some similarities to the current CO-6, except it has much less of Adams County, doesn't have the northern part of Aurora, has all the Eastern Plains that I dropped out of CO-7, loops around through southern Douglas County and also takes in some of Jefferson County and drops down west of El Paso County to take in some Republican precincts in Pueblo County. The district ended up being a 50.5%-47.8% McCain district, but I think it's a bit of a mess. It just ends up with its toes in too many areas and would be a pain for its congressman to get around. I'll probably redraw it to make it more compact.

Here's some views of my map:



Anyway, I think a 5-2 map shouldn't be hard. If you pack in some of the Dem-heavy precincts from the Denver suburbs in CO-1 and CO-2 and crack what's left, you can end up with Republican majorities in the remaining districts.
68 posted on 11/03/2014 5:04:38 PM PST by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief (Our Joe Wilson can take the Dems' Joe Wilson any day of the week)
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To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief

Great stuff, thanks !


69 posted on 11/03/2014 7:38:48 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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