The Green Papers: Colorado 2008 General Election
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Primary: Tuesday 12 August 2008
General Election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Electoral Votes:9(1.67% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:7(1.61% of 435)
2000 Census:4,311,882 (1.53% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):3,067,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):2,274,152
Capital:Denver
Tuesday 12 August 2008 polling hours 7:00a MDT (1300 UTC) to 7:00p MDT (0100 UTC).
Tuesday 4 November 2008 polling hours 7:00a MST (1400 UTC) to 7:00p MST (0200 UTC).
 

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Colorado State and Local Government

Colorado 2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:
Democrats, Republicans, Third Parties


NOTE re: elections to the GENERAL ASSEMBLY

COLORADO elects approximately half of its 35-member State Senate every two years, State Senators so elected serving four-year terms.

In 2008, State Senators representing the following 18 Senatorial Districts: 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35 are up for election to 4-year terms; State Senators from the remaining 17 Senatorial Districts were elected to four-year terms in 2006 and will be up for election again in 2010.

The entire 65-member House of Representatives is elected every two years and, thus, all 65 Representatives are up for election in 2008.

The state legislators who will meet over the two years from 2009 through 2010 will make up the 67th COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


20 January 2009: Colorado Department of State - Colorado Statewide Cumulative Report


22 September 2008: Synchronized to Colorado Secretary of State - Official General Election Candidate List.


Tuesday 12 August 2008 State/Local PRIMARIES

COLORADO PRIMARY results from a media source
COLORADO PRIMARY results from another media source

 
           

President  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 9 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place, Duly Appointed Presidential Electors, List of Presidential Candidates.
Up for election in 2008
  Elected Democratic 1,288,576 53.66% Senator Barack Hussein Obama
(9 Electoral Votes)
Vice President: Senator Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.

FEC P80003338: $778,642,047
  Candidate Republican 1,073,589 44.71% Senator John Sidney McCain, III
Vice President: Governor Sarah H. Palin

FEC P80002801: $399,826,076
  Candidate Unaffiliated 13,350 0.56% Ralph Nader
Vice President: Matt Gonzalez

FEC P20000527: $4,520,160
  Candidate Libertarian 10,897 0.45% former Congressman Bob Barr
Vice President: Wayne Allyn Root

FEC P80005580: $1,405,899
  Candidate Constitution 6,233 0.26% Charles Obadiah "Chuck" Baldwin
Vice President: Darrell L. Castle.

FEC P80005499: $262,010
  Candidate America's Independent 3,051 0.13% former Ambassador Alan L. Keyes
Vice President: Brian Rohrbough

FEC P60003076: $481,991
  Candidate Green 2,822 0.12% former Congressman Cynthia A. McKinney
Vice President: Rosa A. Clemente

FEC P80004930: $240,360
  Candidate Unaffiliated 828 0.03% Frank Edward McEnulty
Vice President: David Mangan.
Mr. McEnulty was nominated for Vice President by the Reform Party on 19 July 2008.
New America Independent Party

FEC P80003460: $7,600
  Candidate Boston Tea 598 0.02% Charles Jay
Vice President: Dan Sallis, Jr.
  Candidate HeartQuake '08 348 0.01% Jonathan Edward Allen
Vice President: Jeffrey D. Stath

FEC P80005119: $95,029
  Candidate Objectivist Party 336 0.01% Thomas Robert "Tom" Stevens
Vice President: Alden Link

FEC P80005655: Financial report not available
  Candidate Socialist Party USA 226 0.01% Brian Patrick Moore
Vice President: Stewart A. Alexander

FEC P80005275: $9,516
  Candidate Socialism and Liberation 158 0.01% Gloria Estela La Riva
Vice President: Robert Moses

FEC P80005572: $24,441
  Candidate Socialist Workers Party 154 0.01% James E. Harris
Vice President: Alyson Kennedy. The Party's Presidential nominee, Róger Calero, having been born in Nicaragua, does not meet the Constitutional requirements for President.
  Candidate U.S. Pacifist Party 110 0.00% Bradford Lyttle
Vice President: Abraham Bassford
  Candidate Prohibition Party 85 0.00% Gene C. Amondson
Vice President: Leroy J. Pletten
Total 2,401,361 100.00%  

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 110th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2
Seat up for election
Open
Republican Senator A. Wayne Allard
First elected: 1996; re-elected 2002
[also served in U.S. House- elected: 1990, 1992, 1994]
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - Announced retirement 15 January 2007 effective at the end of this term.
 Polls: Leans Democratic - WATCH - Democratic Congressman Mark E. Udall
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 1,230,994 52.80% Congressman Mark E. Udall
Congressman CD 2

FEC S8CO00172: $11,787,048
  Candidate Republican 990,755 42.49% former Congressman Robert W. "Bob" Schaffer
FEC S4CO00171: $7,387,843
  Candidate American Constitution 59,733 2.56% Douglas "Dayhorse" Campbell
FEC S2CO00142: Financial report not available
  Candidate Green 50,004 2.14% Robert A. "Bob" Kinsey
FEC S8CO00222: Financial report not available
  Candidate Write-in 116 0.00% Buddy Moore
FEC S8CO00248: Financial report not available
  Candidate Write-in 10 0.00% Gary Cooper
FEC S2CO00134: Financial report not available
  Candidate Write-in; (Green) 9 0.00% Bruce E. Lohmiller
FEC S8CO00230: Financial report not available
Total 2,331,621 100.00%  

Class 3 Democratic Senator Ken Salazar
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - 12 December 2008: Nominated for Secretary of the Interior by President-elect Obama.
  Candidate Democratic     Denver Mayor John W. Hickenlooper

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Democratic Governor Willliam "Bill" Ritter, Jr.
First elected: 2006
Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
  Candidate Republican     Congressman Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo
Announced candidacy October 2008

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on a ticket- and nominated- with the Governor

  Democratic Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

110th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 110th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
4 Democratic (3 Renominated, 1 Open);
3 Republican (2 Renominated, 1 Open)

CD 1
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Seat up for election
Democratic Congressman Diana L. DeGette
• Re-elected Tuesday 4 November 2008
First elected: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Renominated - 12 August 2008 Primary
 Polls: Democratic Congressman Diana L. DeGette
  Elected Democratic 203,755 71.94% Congressman Diana L. DeGette
FEC H6CO01141: $808,491
  Candidate Republican 67,345 23.78% George C. Lilly
FEC H2CO01108: $13,746
  Candidate Libertarian 12,135 4.28% Martin L. Buchanan
FEC H8CO01071: Financial report not available
  Candidate Write-in 11 0.00% Gary Swing
FEC H8CO01089: Financial report not available
Total 283,246 100.00%  

CD 2
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Seat up for election
Open
Democratic Congressman Mark E. Udall
First elected: 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - Ran for and won the Senate Class 2 seat in 2008
 Polls: Democratic Jared Polis
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 215,571 62.60% Jared Polis
FEC H8CO02137: $7,353,034
  Candidate Republican 116,591 33.86% Scott Howard Starin
FEC H8CO02152: $88,757
  Candidate Green 10,026 2.91% J.A. Calhoun
FEC H6CO02131: Financial report not available
  Candidate Unity 2,176 0.63% William Robert "Bill" Hammons
Filed with the FEC as "Unaffiliated"

FEC H8CO02145: $22,467
Total 344,364 100.00%  

CD 3
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Seat up for election
Democratic Congressman John Tony Salazar
• Re-elected Tuesday 4 November 2008
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Renominated - 12 August 2008 Primary
 Polls: Democratic Congressman John Tony Salazar
  Elected Democratic 203,455 61.61% Congressman John Tony Salazar
FEC H4CO03167: $1,335,166
  Candidate Republican 126,762 38.39% Delta County Commissioner Wayne Earl Wolf
FEC H8CO03184: $21,704
Total 330,217 100.00%  

CD 4
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Seat up for election
Republican Congressman Marilyn N. Musgrave
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Renominated - 12 August 2008 Primary
 Polls: Leans Democratic - WATCH - Democratic Elizabeth Helen "Betsy" Markey favored over Republican Congressman Marilyn N. Musgrave
  Elected Democratic 187,347 56.20% Elizabeth Helen "Betsy" Markey
FEC H8CO04067: $2,918,744
  Candidate Republican 146,028 43.80% Congressman Marilyn N. Musgrave
FEC H2CO04045: $2,869,957
Total 333,375 100.00%  

CD 5
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Seat up for election
Republican Congressman Douglas L. "Doug" Lamborn
• Re-elected Tuesday 4 November 2008
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Renominated - 12 August 2008 Primary
 Polls: Republican Congressman Douglas L. "Doug" Lamborn
  Elected Republican 183,178 60.03% Congressman Douglas L. "Doug" Lamborn
FEC H6CO05159: $611,755
  Candidate Democratic 113,025 37.04% Harold Wilford "Hal" Bidlack
FEC H8CO05106: $241,785
  Candidate American Constitution 8,894 2.91% Brian X. Scott
FEC H6CO05225: Financial report not available
  Candidate Write-in 45 0.01% Richard D. "Rich" Hand
FEC H6CO05209: Financial report not available
Total 305,142 100.00%  

CD 6
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Seat up for election
Open
Republican Congressman Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo
First elected: 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - On 29 October 2007 Congressman Tancredo announced he would not seek a 6th term in Congress. He formally entered the 2008 Presidential contest on Monday 2 April 2007 and withdrew on 20 December 2007.
 Polls: Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 250,877 60.67% Secretary of State Mike Coffman
FEC H8CO06138: $1,488,310
  Candidate Democratic 162,639 39.33% Henry H. "Hank" Eng
FEC H8CO06187: $273,696
Total 413,516 100.00%  

CD 7
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Seat up for election
Democratic Congressman Edwin "Ed" Perlmutter
• Re-elected Tuesday 4 November 2008
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Renominated - 12 August 2008 Primary
 Polls: Democratic Congressman Edwin "Ed" Perlmutter
  Elected Democratic 173,931 63.48% Congressman Edwin "Ed" Perlmutter
FEC H6CO07023: $1,770,087
  Candidate Republican 100,055 36.52% John William Lerew
FEC H8CO07037: $37,121
Total 273,986 100.00%  

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Ran for and received his party's nomination for Congress CD 6

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Democratic Treasurer Cary Kennedy
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Republican Attorney General John W. Suthers
Appointed: 5 January 2005 as an Independent; First elected as a Republican: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
  Candidate Republican     Attorney General John W. Suthers

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
  Democratic (affiliates): 8 incumbents, 10 candidates
  Republican: 6 incumbents, 11 candidates
Major Third Parties
  Green (affiliates): 4 candidates
  Libertarian: 2 candidates
Other Third Parties
  American Constitution (affiliate of Constitution): 2 candidates
  America's Independent (affiliates): 1 candidate
  Boston Tea: 1 candidate
  Constitution (affiliates): 1 candidate
  HeartQuake '08: 1 candidate
  Objectivist Party: 1 candidate
  Socialism and Liberation: 1 candidate
  Prohibition Party (affiliates): 1 candidate
  Socialist Party USA: 1 candidate
  Socialist Workers Party: 1 candidate
  U.S. Pacifist Party: 1 candidate
  Unity: 1 candidate
Independents
  Unaffiliated: 2 candidates
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Write-in: 5 candidates
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from an election authority that the person so listed will actually appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

 


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