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Neighborhood analysis, Council District 7 9 Dec 2008 | 07:02 pm
In Council District 7, Shelly Watters doesn't have a ghost of a chance of winning. As the graph below shows, she only challenged Nevitt's lead in three neighborhoods: Overland, Valverde, and Rosedale....
Neighborhood analysis, Council District 3 9 Dec 2008 | 07:02 pm
In Council District 3, second-place finisher JoAnne Phillips trails frontrunner Paul Lopez by 30 points. Her prospects seem even worse in light of the fact that she didn't challenge him in a single ne...
May election results in Council District 4 9 Dec 2008 | 07:02 pm
City Councilwoman Peggy Lehmann won re-election in Council District 5, as should be expected. Below is a graph of the results of her campaign vis-a-vis challengers Ike Kelley and Bill Rutherford. Lehm...
May election results in Council District 9 9 Dec 2008 | 07:02 pm
Would you be surprised to learn that incumbent City Councilwoman Judy Montero nearly lost an entire neighborhood against wild-eyed Waldo Benevidez? Well, it happened in Valverde, where the penniless c...
Your Money Or Your Vote: Citywide voting patterns in the May 2007 Denver municipal election 9 Dec 2008 | 07:02 pm
Did you vote for the mayor? If you've got a nice income and live in a wealthy neighborhood, odds are that you did. Truth be told, the odds are that you voted for the mayor no matter where you live. I...
Voter turnout in Denver since 1987 9 Dec 2008 | 07:02 pm
When the Denver Election Commission purged voter lists earlier this year, many folks were outraged. However, the graph below shows that the number of "active voters" was actually near the historical a...
Petition drive to make marijuana possession Denver's lowest law enforcement priority 31 May 2007 | 09:50 am
Citizens for a Safer Denver is holding a press conference later this week to kick off a new petition drive. The proposed initiative would make adult marijuana possession Denver's lowest law enforcemen...
Who's showing up, and what does it mean? 31 May 2007 | 05:34 am
The votes are coming in at a pretty good clip now, representing 61% of the general election total. The scariest numbers come from District 3, which at 1,786 votes has barely over half of its anemic g...
Denver Politics endorses... Chris Nevitt in Council District 7 28 May 2007 | 05:15 am
We judge City Council candidates by 4 simple qualifications: Intelligence applied to real-world problems Commitment to public service Identification with ordinary citizens Experience in city gover...
Lopez controversy uncovers a "smoking gun" 25 May 2007 | 07:15 pm
Political scandal have a fairly standard routine way of unfolding: An accusation is made. The accused denies it, stating the accusation is false. More evidence comes out. The accused denies it, pl...
