The polls said that extremist Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert was a shoo-in for re-election to Congress. No way the gun-toting Christian fundamentalist could be beaten.
But they were wrong.
Boebert is now in a near tie with her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch, slightly behind him with more votes to be counted.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, Boebert was narrowly trailing Democrat Adam Frisch, 49.7 percent to 50.3 percent, in the House race for Colorado’s Third District, which includes much of the western half of the state.
The closeness of the race is surprising given the district’s Republican lean and polling that heavily favored Boebert ahead of Election Day. A loss for her would suggest that voters are fed up with the controversy and antics that Boebert has trafficked in since taking office, and would be a notable rebuke of one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal and bombastic backers in Congress. It also would nod to concerns expressed by her constituents — some of whom have said that she seems to care more about her celebrity than addressing issues in the district, including funding for infrastructure, which would bolster steel jobs in the area.
During her tenure in the House, Boebert, previously a gun rights activist, has spent much of her time on attention-grabbing stunts including Islamophobic comments targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, attempts to carry a gun throughout the Capitol, and heckling President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address. She’s faced scrutiny for these actions as well as for controversial social media posts advancing false and dangerous theories suggesting that LGBTQ people “groom” children.
Frisch, a moderate businessman and former Aspen city council member, has attempted to appeal to voters tired of what he described as the “angertainment” Boebert provides. He’s also leaned into qualms constituents have had about the focus Boebert has put on her own image versus delivering for the district. A Frisch win would be a surprising pick-up for Democrats in a place that Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan political analysis firm, has rated as Solid Republican…
Polling up until this point had Boebert as the likely winner: FiveThirtyEight’s predictive model, for example, gave Frisch a 3 in 100 chance of taking the district.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Coloradans have had enough of the “crazies”, and sane Republicans and Unaffiliated voters joined with Democrats to say to the MAGA Republicans “Enough!” Colorado has not turned blue; we’re still purple, but obviously have enough sensible people who said it’s time to push back against the Trumpers. Unlike Georgia where MT Greene once again glided to victory! Colorado is resisting the “southernization” in its elections.
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Well, it’s looking about as blue as you can get. Every “blue” state has red areas. But the latest election results show a state that is quite blue.
Take a spin through Aspen and Telluride, both within Boebert’s district, and you will not see much in the way of “red”. I lived in Summit County, home to Breckenridge, for 20 years, and conservatives were most definitely a rare breed. Loud, but rare.
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The whole red/blue state designation has further served to polarize our country that much deeper, it’s shameful that those designations are still in use when newsmedia sees the ridiculousness of it (it’s by design by them anyway). In New York, most of upstate and Western New York are as red as an apple except the cities: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and, of course, NYC. So many of my students ask me why NYC can’t be its own state. I simply reply that without NYC floating the rest of the state with tax revenue, we’d be as truly poor and dependent on slashed-and-burned government services as in many red states (while leaders in those states trash government and tout the free market while teenage pregnancy, welfare, and poverty are at higher levels in those states).
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American politics have always been Manichaean.
This is not a good thing.
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There really aren’t red states and blue states. There are red counties and blue cities. Our Constitution, however, wisely makes Senate and presidential elections based on states instead of rural and urban areas. It’s wise because if cities controlled our government in its entirety, rural areas would be engaged in taxation without adequate representation. George Washington was right, there should not be political parties. But there are. So our job is to make sure that at least one of the two parties represents the people instead of the powerful. We’re failing toward that end because of the DLC.
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Boebert is only 100 votes behind, and the district is still counting mail-in ballots.
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10 Nov 22, 1316 hrs.: Boebert has pulled ahead by 433 votes.
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That Frisch and Boebert are essentially tied says that thousands of voters in CO-03 have had enough of her. Her district is more than Red! It’s Crimson conservative; there are Republicans who are telling Boebert enough! Even if she wins, my hope is she will be a bit humbled by the pushback from so many constituents.
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Sadly, not a chance. You’ve seen her in action. If she wins by one vote she will claim a landslide victory with a mandate to do whatever she wants.
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Good point!
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Good to read about purple!
When she loses, that will be another shock wave in the EXpresident’s world.
So – in Georgia –
If the EX does show up, call out the GOP as no-direction no-platform so-called leaders for wanting his brand for six years and now they don’t – and yet they want to elect a senator still kissing the EX’s ring!
If the EX doesn’t show up, call out the GOP as hypocrites as no-direction no platform so-called leaders who had to evict the guy attached to their candidate’s hip
PLEASE Democrat campaign team and all your texts and emails – get this right!
The country depends on you
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From what I’ve been reading for some time now, about 15% of registered Republicans voters are fed up with Traitor Trump, his BIG LIE, and his MAGA RINO supporters. Some if not all of that 15% is voting for Democrats or not voting. In one interview I read, an Arizona Republican said his entire family had voted GOP all their lives. but they are “holding their noses” and voting for only Democrats this election. They want the traitor and his MAGA RINOs to go away.
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You know she’ll be screaming election fraud if she loses.
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Trump is like the horror movie killer: Every time the hero kills him, and then embraces the heroine, you see the “dead” killer rising up behind them.
In Trump’s case, we might be seeing his practical end. Republicans hung onto him because he brought them power and money, ideology be damned. But if he can’t pick winners, the hell with him.
They’re not a sentimental bunch, and loyalty means nothing.
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Rupert Murdoch and ‘The NY Post’ have turned their backs on “Trumpty Dumpty.” Trump’s halo is tarnished because he could not deliver on the midterms. There’s trouble in right wing extremist land, and it’s good day for the reasonable majority.
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What about the other 85%? They are still contesting the 2020 election and celebrating January 6th.
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Boebert spent a great deal of the past advocating for the “end times”. I wonder if that was the last straw for many constituents?
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The polls were wrong but Michael Moore was right!
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Good catch.
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