Eat it, Detroit!
What anybody who lives here knows, Denver is the best place in the world. Now, no less an authority than Pew Research has verified what we all know: You can’t get better than Denver.
Our old friend, VtheK (whose site, if you haven’t been there in a while, is still as fun as ever) recently wrote me he fears that in Denver, “the Californication has gone too far.” This should help assuage that fear:
Denver is the favorite city among Republicans
And believe me, with politics the way they’ve been going out here, we could use some more conservatives. So mount up, young Republicans, and Go West!
-Colorado Patriot (Nick), from HQ
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obama won 75% of the vote in denver county.
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 12:10 pm - January 30, 2009
demographically, the republican party is becoming a regional party of rural, older, working-class white people mostly in the south. the highest income people vote democrat. the highest educated (by a HUGE margin) vote democrat (the same is true for the lowest income and lowest educated).
i’m all for you guys becoming an irrelevant party — the 21st century version of the whigs. but if you want to stay relevant, you’re going to have to realize the error of your ways and wake up to the reality of what america looks like today. it’s not 1960 anymore.
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 12:14 pm - January 30, 2009
Nick, love ya man, but right now I’m looking at Indianapolis. It looks like the same people who destroyed California by voting in Democrats are doing the same thing in Colorado.
Comment by V the K — January 30, 2009 @ 12:34 pm - January 30, 2009
Yes, yes. And its not 1917 anymore either, but that hasn’t stopped the left from working to institutie a socialist state. To quote the glorious People’s Cube, “100 years of failure mean NOTHING!”
Comment by 23eagle — January 30, 2009 @ 1:24 pm - January 30, 2009
no you’re right. it’s more like 1929.
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 1:28 pm - January 30, 2009
Yeah, a megalomaniacal Democrat president is laying down hard-left socialist policies to turn a depression into a Great depression.
Comment by V the K — January 30, 2009 @ 1:31 pm - January 30, 2009
I guess that’s technically 1933. But, yeah, that’s where we are…
Comment by V the K — January 30, 2009 @ 1:37 pm - January 30, 2009
Denver and Anchorage are my favorite cities. I lived in Denver from 1957 until 1974 when my company transferred me to California (Bay Area). I still keep a condo in Denver and I go back several times a year. I was very active in politics and was a Republican district capt A lot of new people have moved into the city since then and it is all Democratic. But that is true of all large cities.
I moved to Anchorage in 1947 when the population was only 12.000 and only 7 blocks of 4th Ave., the main street, were paved. Even though Anchorage is now a large city, I still love it and I go back every year or two.
Comment by John W — January 30, 2009 @ 1:46 pm - January 30, 2009
Just caught the pic you posted of the cow dude, V the K. Thank you what I am sure to be recurring nightmares! lol. Damn…..
Comment by 23eagle — January 30, 2009 @ 1:50 pm - January 30, 2009
Did I get in the wrong blog? I thought this one was about your favorite city.
And Bob, if you know so much about Denver you should know that Denver is Denver county. And all large cities vote for the Democrats as the Democrat machine tells them to do.
Comment by John W — January 30, 2009 @ 2:00 pm - January 30, 2009
Was Detroit ever the love-center of Republicans? I get that Denver is… wow, I need to get out more.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — January 30, 2009 @ 2:33 pm - January 30, 2009
The big city Democrat machines succeed by raising taxes and cutting quality of services until the productive middle class is driven out. What remains are the welfare class who vote because they want to stay on welfare, and the hyper-affluent who are unaffected by the poor quality of services because they can avail themselves of private schools and security.
Comment by V the K — January 30, 2009 @ 2:33 pm - January 30, 2009
john w — i never said denver county wasn’t denver. i was looking at the county-by-county results from the election, where the results were not broken down by city (except in the case where the city is the county).
and cities tend to vote democratic because they are highly diverse, something republicans tend to avoid.
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 3:07 pm - January 30, 2009
and the stock market collapsed in 1929.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 3:29 pm - January 30, 2009
ALSO, on the topic of demographics in the political process:
you all would do yourself a favor by reading this article by conservative columnist david brooks (ny times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=1
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 3:34 pm - January 30, 2009
#12: “and cities tend to vote democratic because they are highly diverse, something republicans tend to avoid.”
Not in their selection of the head of the NSA, the Secretary of State and Vice Presidential nominees. But of course, with liberals, “diversity” is something they tolerate only with regard to skin pigmentation.
Comment by Sean A — January 30, 2009 @ 3:47 pm - January 30, 2009
sean a — i have a project for you. go pull up an election map that shows the county-by-county election results. look at all the red counties, and then google the counties to find out the demographics. then do the same for the blue counties. then come back here and report your results.
or i could save you 5 hours: blue counties are more diverse in income level, race, religion, country of origin, education level, etc.
Comment by bob — January 30, 2009 @ 4:00 pm - January 30, 2009
Omaha is the Meg Griffin of cities, and I’m not sure why. Nobody likes it, and it doesn’t like itself. Yet, I think it’s a really nice town. It’s got an incredible zoo, opera, and symphony and a nifty downtown area, the Old Market. The NoDo area is become quite the trendy area, housing Saddle Creek records (Bright Eyes, The Faint). The Joslyn is an absolute gem of an art museum and one of my favorite places in the world. I can see myself in an expensive condo overlooking the Missouri near the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge.
Central Nebraska, where I currently live, is an undiscovered, Republican Vermont. There’s a small liberal arts college every 50 miles. The Sandhills are amazing. The old brick houses are beautiful, and the town squares simply reek of Americana. And it’s close to the Omaha/Lincoln metro (see above).
I’m not sure why people, especially conservatives, haven’t discovered this area.
Comment by Ashpenaz — January 30, 2009 @ 6:34 pm - January 30, 2009
True, minorities tend to vote Democrat because Democrats scare them into it with two messages
1. You cant make it on your own because youre a minority.
2. Republicans are racist because they don’t focus on your skin color the way we do.
But cities largely vote Democratic because cities are overwhelmingly young ignorant rubes who dont own their own property, arent married and have no responsibilities and want government to take care of them.
Your claim that educated people vote overwhelmingly Democrat is a bald faced lie, except perhaps in this one past election, when Democrats won. The fact is that people with higher education vote virtually equally between Republicans and Democrats, and voted more for Republicans in 2000, 2002, 2004.
Whats more, if you exclude the perma-students and academia who stay in school forever precisely because they cant cope in the real world (“those who cant, teach”) , then people with higher educations vote overwhelmingly REPUBLICAN.
Comment by American Elephant — January 30, 2009 @ 7:45 pm - January 30, 2009
Vote by Education
College Graduates: Bush 52% Kerry 46%
Vote by Income
More than $50k Bush 56% Kerry 43%
Less than $50k Bush 44% Kerry 55%
And another one of the biggest indicators of which way a person will vote?
How politically informed they are:
Have you ever voted before?
No: Bush 46% Kerry 53%
Comment by American Elephant — January 30, 2009 @ 8:03 pm - January 30, 2009
And lastly, lets just look at the BRAINTRUST that makes up the Democrat party. The groups that more than any others can be counted on as Democrats:
Those towering bastions of intellect!
Actors!
Supermodels!
Rock stars!
Rappers!
Porn Stars!
Drug addicts!
Drug dealers!
Uneducated inner cities!
Hell, you’ve got a MoveOn.org commercial right there!
Oh, and look at this! People with NO high school Education?
Kerry 50%
Bush 49%
Of course if one wants to judge the intellect of liberals, there really is no better place to look than the schools, which are overwhelmingly controlled by liberals (again, those who cant, teach), and performance in schools has been plummeting ever since. Indeed, the more control liberals get over schools, the more they fail.
Comment by American Elephant — January 30, 2009 @ 8:18 pm - January 30, 2009
David Brooks is a “conservative” the way Rosie O’Donnell is “attractive.”
Comment by V the K — January 30, 2009 @ 8:49 pm - January 30, 2009
Where are you Ashpenaz, Hastings,Grand Island, Norfolk?…and shall I visit? I like the idea of an oasis from this liberal looney bin.
–White River Junction Vermont.
Comment by Patrick — January 30, 2009 @ 9:44 pm - January 30, 2009
I’m uncomfortable with being too specific (you never know who reads these things) but, someday, perhaps, at the Starbucks in York. . .
Comment by Ashpenaz — January 30, 2009 @ 10:58 pm - January 30, 2009
“How politically informed they are:
Have you ever voted before?”
And how do you suppose the determination of “How politically informed they are?” comes into play? What the hell does being ‘politically informed’ have to do with anything? What a chafed anus. Same type of ignorant douche who simply INSISTS they inhabit the ‘reality based community’. They are incapable of self-reflection, or even learning for that matter.
Comment by model_1066 — January 31, 2009 @ 3:00 am - January 31, 2009
My family has been in Colorado for 5 Generations, and I think there is still a lingering of what I like to call “The Pioneer Spirit” which is fiercely independent and conservative. I do not see how ideas of big government can last here.
I think with the DNC here this past year, there was some effect on how our state leaned and top it off with some of the “Californication” that is happening, but I think the blue horse at DIA is scaring some of the Californians away.
But I agree would be nice to have more conservatives move here
Comment by Colocelt — January 31, 2009 @ 10:22 am - January 31, 2009
“overwhelmingly young ignorant rubes who dont own their own property, arent married and have no responsibilities and want government to take care of them.”
I hope you had a lot of toilet paper to take care of that load of sh*t.
Comment by a different Dave — January 31, 2009 @ 3:30 pm - January 31, 2009
Wow…you people scare me…no wonder the Republicans to a walloping this past election.
Comment by living in Denver — February 1, 2009 @ 12:08 am - February 1, 2009
Mainly because the Obama Party lied.
Don’t worry, though; now that people realize that Obama is planning to cut our national defense, still supports torture and extraordinary rendition, and is raising taxes on everyone while he supports wealthy Obama Party members not paying their taxes, a lot of good things can happen in 2010.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 1, 2009 @ 6:00 pm - February 1, 2009
american elephant:
for one thing, it’s a bit peculiar that you’re using data from 2004 when the 2008 data is more relevant and is readily available.
secondly, you’re missing my point. i’m not saying that the democrats on the whole are more educated than the republicans. my point was that the HIGHEST educated people in america tend to vote overwhelmingly for the democrats. i don’t find it surprising that ppl with college degrees (nothing higher) are pretty evenly split. the democrats tend to attract votes of both the highest and lowest end of the population with respect to education and income level.
Comment by bob — February 2, 2009 @ 12:02 am - February 2, 2009