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brokephibroke
Mar 2020
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Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)1. that is not a weapon, that is an ideological dildo.
hlthe2b
(106,379 posts)2. Odds much greater, he'll be taken out by a tiny virus--as a direct result of his malfeasance,
and enabled incompetence.
Sneederbunk
(15,115 posts)3. Leave the gun and remove Buck.
Colorado Liberal
(152 posts)4. Take a look at how it's been gerrymandered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado's_4th_congressional_district
When they restructured it after the 2010 census, they left Longmont (where I live, outside of Boulder) in the district, but got rid of Fort Collins, thus diluting the Democratic influence. Basically all of Eastern Colorado, but skipping every remotely big city they could (when Wikipedia refers to Greeley, Longmont, Castle Rock, and Parker as the only large cities in the district, I had to laugh). Apparently when Marilyn Musgrave got beaten in 2008 as part of the Obama wave, the Repubes wanted to make sure it couldn't happen again.
When they restructured it after the 2010 census, they left Longmont (where I live, outside of Boulder) in the district, but got rid of Fort Collins, thus diluting the Democratic influence. Basically all of Eastern Colorado, but skipping every remotely big city they could (when Wikipedia refers to Greeley, Longmont, Castle Rock, and Parker as the only large cities in the district, I had to laugh). Apparently when Marilyn Musgrave got beaten in 2008 as part of the Obama wave, the Repubes wanted to make sure it couldn't happen again.
brokephibroke
(1,884 posts)5. You would think that if longmont and Greeley
Got out the vote big time, buck could lose. I live in CD2 now just north of boulder county in Larimer.
Colorado Liberal
(152 posts)7. It's no coincidence that Longmont and Greeley are very purple cities
In 2016, the Boulder County piece of CD4 voted for the Democrat 53% to 41%, which only provided a margin of about 6K votes (out of about 45K votes total). Buck won the election by 125K votes. If every Longmont vote had gone to Buck's opponent - Buck still would have won. They carved him out a virtually un-loseable district.
DavidDvorkin
(19,892 posts)6. Stop deluding yourself, Ken
The government isn't going to be taking away your silly looking gun, but if they did, they wouldn't send Beto or Joe to do it. They'd send heavily armed and armored youngsters, and you'd hand the thing over while peeing in your pants.