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November 12, 2022

While the Red Wave of America First elections was eagerly anticipated in many parts of the country, there was little to no such anticipation in much of Colorado.  Thanks, to some extent, to the recreational marijuana ballot initiative that was approved by Colorado voters a decade ago. 

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The aftermath of the initiative forever altered the state’s political constituency and its population with the arrival of a generation of homeless, mostly indigent wretches as well as a generation of baby boomer potheads.  The influx of those immigrants destroyed Colorado as a bona fide red state as well as its western values of self-government and independent thinking. What has morphed in its place is a population of progressive Marxist blue state lovers of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and Critical Race Theory teachings which many school districts have banned.

So far, no drag queens have yet appeared in the children’s section of the public library.

Meanwhile, there was no discernible red wave in Colorado where unaffiliated voters (1,736,967) surpass the Democratic party’s political edge (1,058,592), even as the Dems retain their electoral dominance, holding onto notable statewide elected positions.  As of November 1st, there were 940,970 registered Republicans in Colorado.  During the 2022 midterm elections with a 55% voter turnout, 2.1 million voters cast their ballots, out of a total of 3.8 million active voters.   There is, however, no public record yet of how the three party affiliations voted in the 2022 midterm. 

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In the gubernatorial race, dot.com millionaire incumbent Democrat Jared Polis who paid no taxes (2013-2015) was re-elected with 61% of the vote while  Republican challenger Heidi Ganahl received 37%.  Polis was well known as a former U.S. representative (D-Co) and member of the Gang of Four which is described in “The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado.”

Elected to statewide office in the past as a member of the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents, Ganahl avoided the hot button issue of whether the 2020 election was legitimate and was unable to exhibit the necessary mojo to carry her into the governor’s mansion.  While she endorsed cutting the state’s .22$ per gallon gas tax in half, eliminating the state’s income tax and disclosing Polis’ masquerade of ‘fees’ which were in reality regulatory taxes, she was unable to convince voters.  

In addition, while the elevated toxicity of fentanyl in Colorado has tragically shattered the lives of many families and the state’s mostly young population, Ganahl missed the opportunity to beat Polis over the head with his failure of twice supporting legislation approved by a pathetically weak Democratic State Assembly to maintain fentanyl as a misdemeanor.  She failed to put the state’s onerous and unnecessary COVID mandates at his feet or to clearly focus a strong position on the parent’s rights issue.    

On the Colorado Senate race,  Democratic nothing-burger incumbent Senator Michael Bennett was reelected with 58% as Republican anti-Trumper Joe Odea received  40% of the vote. 

Odea, who was not a Republican party stalwart, avoided the caucus route in order to secure the Republican nomination for the Senate.  He never participated as a candidate in any of the local, county, or state caucus meetings and instead hired a team to circulate petitions to obtain the necessary signatures for a spot on the primary ballot.  As a millionaire construction contractor, Odea ran a well-funded primary campaign and beat the one state legislative candidate who survived the state caucus meetings.   

With little relationship to the Republican party machine, such as it exists, Odea displayed a shocking lack of political savvy or sensitivity to the rank-and-file Republicans across the state. Early on, after he had won the primary, he let it be known that he was not a supporter of former President Donald Trump.  As if to reiterate his ‘independence,’ Odea, in an example of providing too much information, later announced that he would not support Trump if he were the 2024 nominee for President.