Colorado Politics

[sashyenka]

New York Times and Denver Post have listed different, lower overall numbers for Boulder county, so there's still room at the margin on this one. It's going to be a long night.

[Eeyore]

Plus KOAA reported that Pueblo returns are coming in slow and you know we will vote for Bennet.

[sashyenka]

Pueblo county is 80% reported. There's not a lot more that's going to come from the remaining 20% at this point - Bennet votes or not.

[Eeyore]

Oh ok. My bad. That must of came after the news at 10:00

[enjo13]

This is going to be stupid close. Bennett is expected to get a small bump when Chaffee county finally reports. Denver and Boulder still have quite a few votes to put into this as well.

About a 9,000 vote gap.

The amazing thing. It looks like Bennett could win Jefferson, Larimer, AND Arapaho and still lose the war.

[bunt_q]

Shame to lose John Salazar.

I'm not just ribbing Eeyore, Pueblo really isn't carrying its weight. Couldn't hold the congressional district, and the Senate margin is going to be closer to Arapahoe county than Boulder or even Larimer. Not good!

[sashyenka]

There's quite a bit left to report in the Denver area - Arapahoe county, for example, is only 10% reported...it'll be very interesting to see how this turns out...

[bunt_q]

I've got almost 150,000 votes in Arapahoe. No way that's only 10%. if you're using the Post they are way behind the big networks.

[sashyenka]

I'm actually going off of the New York Times numbers, which have been quickly updated and reported, but they're slowly going up for Arapahoe county - it's at 11% now.

[enjo13]

Originally Posted by bunt_q

I've got almost 150,000 votes in Arapahoe. No way that's only 10%. if you're using the Post they are way behind the big networks.

EDIT: Screw it.. I'm officially so confused. The guy on PBS is waffling about how this all works. I quit

[enjo13]

They're saying 80k-100k votes yet to be counted.

[enjo13]

Ok...I'm off to bed, but I don't see how Bennett doesn't win this. Virtually all of the remaining votes are in Denver/Boulder. With 73% of the vote in it's now down to a 687 vote lead for Buck.

Except that almost all of the primarily Republican precincts have reported. 95% of El Paso county is in and Douglas county is 100% in. It looks like the bulk of the remaining votes are in Jefferson (48% reporting), Arapaho (11% reporting), Adams (81%), Denver (57%), and Boulder (61%)... all areas that are at worst break-even for Bennett and at best absolute land-slides (Denver/Boulder).

As that Denver and Boulder vote rolls in... I expect Bennett to jump out to a solid lead. There just aren't enough votes left for Buck. At least that's how it currently appears.

[sashyenka]

That is essentially what FiveThirtyEight has projected, and you kind of can see it if you look at the map. Literally every Denver metro county has gone Bennet so far, so it's hard to see him not coming through and winning...it's still a nail biter until it's over, though.

[Brainpathology]

Originally Posted by enjo13

Ok...I'm off to bed, but I don't see how Bennett doesn't win this. Virtually all of the remaining votes are in Denver/Boulder. With 73% of the vote in it's now down to a 687 vote lead for Buck.

Except that almost all of the primarily Republican precincts have reported. 95% of El Paso county is in and Douglas county is 100% in. It looks like the bulk of the remaining votes are in Jefferson (48% reporting), Arapaho (11% reporting), Adams (81%), Denver (57%), and Boulder (61%)... all areas that are at worst break-even for Bennett and at best absolute land-slides (Denver/Boulder).

As that Denver and Boulder vote rolls in... I expect Bennett to jump out to a solid lead. There just aren't enough votes left for Buck. At least that's how it currently appears.

Just saw this too.. it's done for Buck.. with COS' wad already blown and it being essentially tied its all over. There is just no other power center in the state to pull it either way (the rest of the state pretty much washes usually) besides those two cities and if Denver hasn't had it's say yet in a close race than the race isn't even likely to be close at all.

[Brainpathology]

Yes I'm up too late.. .looks like Maes is going to get more than 10% of the vote.. too bad

[Brainpathology]

Originally Posted by Brainpathology

Just saw this too.. it's done for Buck.. with COS' wad already blown and it being essentially tied its all over. There is just no other power center in the state to pull it either way (the rest of the state pretty much washes usually) besides those two cities and if Denver hasn't had it's say yet in a close race than the race isn't even likely to be close at all.

blah.. well crap.. the numbers didn't change but the % reporting did.. yikes.. oh well..

[wong21fr]

Man, there are going to be some real idiots in the Statehouse, Joe Rice is going to Caroline Condi. Seriously, a fuckin' house mom bitch with a corgi who's concerned about terrorist training camps in the Rocky Mountains over a 25-yr Army veteran? I guess that's what you get when you are the sponsor of FASTER.

Congratulations to the GOP for getting mental midgets elected who have to face the oncoming budget shortfall, we should see some real leadership now .

[bunt_q]

Denver Post has called it for Bennet.

[Cirrus]

So who's the next mayor of Denver?

[Cirrus]

Also, I'm sad that there won't be a Klingon Ambassador.