Posted on 11/07/2018 8:11:45 AM PST by Simon Green
Colorado’s Democratic Party is poised to win control of the state Senate and regain a “trifecta” of elected power for the first time since 2014.
As of 11 p.m., Democrats held strong margins in all five of the critical Senate races. Led by a group of women candidates, the party appeared to defend its most vulnerable districts while taking two suburban swing areas from Republicans.
In Adams County, challenger Faith Winter defeated Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik by 11 percentage points with all precincts counted. Tammy Story led incumbent Sen. Tim Neville by 13 points in the western Denver metro with 69 percent of precincts reporting.
“Those are huge numbers. This is a royal blue wave in Colorado,” said Democratic strategist Steve Welchert, declaring that the advantage was insurmountable. “Colorado is going to be a blue thumb sticking out of the country a little bit.”
The Democrats also held double-digit advantages in their three defensive races. Kerry Donovan was poised to keep her Aspen area seat by a 19-point margin, while state Reps. Brittany Pettersen and Jessie Danielson were ready to become senators for Jefferson County with double-digit leads.
Altogether, the Democrats could swing from a one-seat deficit to a three-seat advantage in the state Senate. Meanwhile, they were sure to hold onto a majority in the House, where they currently have a seven-seat advantage.
The backstory
The Republicans took the Colorado Senate in 2014, giving them leverage over Gov. John Hickenlooper’s final term.
This year, the key Senate races were a perfect example of Democrats’ national hopes: that five women could hold and take suburban and swing districts, capitalizing on angst and anger about President Donald Trump.
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How long before gun control?
The Dems are killing us in NYS. Help...the abyss...
Yet.
Same story in Alaska, but we’ll have an all Republican state government. And we keep our all-Republican congressional delegation. Including our lone US Representative, Don Young. I first voted for Don Young in 1972, when I was a high school senior. Now I am a senior citizen.
Legalizing pot will gave this effect anywhere it happens.
Thank god for TABOR. I’ll be retiring next year and then selling our house. Then bye-bye to my native home of Colorado. This place was truly great in the 70’s, not any more.
About fifteen seconds.
All the people fleeing CA, escaping the oppressive taxes, are flocking to Colorado and turning it into another California! Sickening!
I don’t see it changing anytime soon. Colorado is a blue state now, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Sad.
That is what happen when leftists who fouled their original nest to the point they couldn’t stand it. So they move to another nest and eventually foul that one as well. Where they will go next is anyone’s guess.
It’s because the idiots from California can’t and will not associate the Democrat Party with the problems in their former state. They’ll find a way to pin it on the GOP even though there is not one Republican in any of the statewide elected offices. No Republican won statewide office in California last night and the idiots also voted down Prop 6, a repeal to the statewide gas tax. When gasoline rises and stays consistently over $4.00 a gallon out there in the near future the libs will point the finger at the oil companies as the culprit. Elections have consequences, and Colorado will soon “enjoy” the “California Experience” if it hasn’t already!
The thing though to consider, is after a while (and that could be sooner rather than later), is that the whole thing is going to collapse under it’s own weight and contradictions. As an example, places like NY, CA, CT, IL, and elsewhere are having serious difficulties in meeting pension fund obligations and other related things to pay their civil servants. And in turn, this makes me think of my Dad having a Polish émigré couple as coworkers back in the 1970s and they told my Dad and others then that the Soviet bloc was in that very serious financial and economic trouble because of all of the resources needed to prop up Big Daddy in Moscow that were being taken away from the satellites.
Colorfornia.
The state will be bankrupt soon. Micromanagement government is on the agenda.
Commierado
Once Colorado is destroyed by Californians, the latter will probably set their sights on Idaho. That's my guess. They won't leave any place habitable.
Committee meetings will be nothing but a cloud of smoke.
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