Author: Tom Cronin

Colorado is one of only seven of the 50 states which could have a state legislative chamber shift from one political party to the other in the upcoming November general elections. Democrats currently control the Colorado state Senate, which now has 20 Democratic state senators and only 15 Republicans. A shift of just three seats…

Ballots for the June 28 primary elections in Colorado will be mailed to voters in about three weeks (the week of June 6). That means now is the time for you to start preparing to cast a “meaningful” vote in those elections. By a meaningful vote, we mean a vote that will actually help to…

The Republican Party has an uphill battle to fight if it hopes to win majority control of the 65-member Colorado House of Representatives in next November’s general elections. The Republicans start their struggle from a reasonable base. The redistricting process carried out in the summer and fall of 2021 gave them 19 safe-Republican seats in…

If the Republicans are going to win majority control of the Colorado state Senate in next November’s general elections, they are going to have to hold on to three competitive seats they already control and flip three competitive seats currently held by Democrats. As a result, most of the electoral activity in the battle for…

The battle for political party control of the Colorado House of Representatives is now underway. Democrats and Republicans are in the process of selecting and recruiting the party candidates who will run against each other for the 65 seats in the lower house of the Legislature. Thanks in part to gerrymandering, the Democrats are entering…

The history of the world as well as the history of America is too often the story of neighbors acting unneighborly with one another. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest and most outrageous example of this. North and South Koreans are mostly related to each other, yet they are deadlocked in animosity. Afghanistan’s 30…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy According to a recent study of the three major factors in voting behavior in the United States, Colorado is the tenth most Democratic of the 50 states. Combine (1) educational levels with (2) percentage of minority voters and (3) urban-rural split, and Colorado ranks with such regularly strong Democratic Party…

Tom Cronin My friend and frequent co-author, Bob Loevy, explains that he loves to write to call attention to new ideas or to get readers to consider new facts. He recalls his days as a newspaper reporter when he covered a story about a young boy at a Baltimore hospital who was awaiting an emergency…

Colorado voters do not seem to be aware of what has happened to them. The Colorado state legislature redistricting committee has adopted redistricting plans that appear to guarantee Democratic Party majorities in both houses of the state legislature for the entire upcoming decade of the 2020s. It will not matter if the state’s voters start…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy It is now up to the Colorado Supreme Court as to whether we will have a number of “competitive districts” in Colorado’s eight-member delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. A redistricting plan sent to the state high court by the Colorado congressional redistricting committee provides for…