"According to booking data from TripIt, a travel organizing app, Denver is the third-most popular fall travel destination this year." Seriously? Don't you people have somewhere better to go?! washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/de…
Denver is fine but if you're gonna come here you should really just keep driving west and visit the mountains. Denver is your typical pleasant western lifestyle town, but the mountains are just amazing.
Random list of places you could go in the fall that are better than Denver, even w crazy limited travel and the west coast on fire:
1) New Orleans 2) New York 3) New England (their fall color is better) 4) Florida (beaches! Just watch for hurricanes) 5) Santa Fe/NM
Random places you could drive to from DIA that are vastly superior places than Denver to visit in the fall
Because a lot of people on here are D partisans they and everyone they talk to think Ds are hopeless, inept and not as good as Rs. Actually a functional party has one purpose — winning elections — and Ds do it well. The GOP’s recent track record is the one that raises questions.
(Especially after last night. Lost the WH and Senate in 2020, underwhelming midterm in 2022, very atypical situation)
“Counting the ballots should be driven by security, not speed,” Wisconsin state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an R, said earlier this year as lawmakers were considering legislation on the issue. “Why would we want to give bad actors the chance to see ballots prior to Election Day?”
Anyway, squint and you can see a path to victory for O'Dea in this poll (Bennet's only at 48%) but with ballots about to drop it is a pretty tight one. Consistent w the theme of what public polling there's been so far.
This guy says it more succinctly than me, maybe turn to him for your analysis
Now the VRA is not (just) about partisan advantage, there's a lot more at stake here than do Ds or Rs get to wring a few more safe seats out of the map. But important to remember that things rarely cut cleanly in US politics.
This is a pretty big deal because Latinos were already splitting in ways that mirrored Anglo voting trends (gender divide/evangelical/military service were prime determinants of voting R). The educational divide would further cement the parallels.
Glass half full for Ds is that Latinos start from a more Democratic baseline than Anglos; Biden still won non-college 55-41.
Glass half empty for Ds is there are a lot more non-college Latinos than college, so further to fall. there. (Of course ed attainment is ⬆️)