<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3MubQh_1Gv9cJs600" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3MubQh_1Gv9cJs600" width="1732" height="2048" ><figcaption>Sen.-elect Kevin Leung (D-Douglas County)</figcaption></figure>Assessing the sweeping victories for Colorado Democrats in last week’s midterm elections, one of the bigger achievements on their lengthy list is winning a supermajority in both chambers of the Colorado General Assembly for the first time since 1936. This feat was accomplished via big wins that encroach deeply into what was formerly considered unwinnable territory for Democrats. Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reported last Wednesday:<blockquote>Democrats expect to have a 24-11 majority in the Senate and a 49-16 majority in the House. Combined with a Democratic governor, that gives the party a lot of power to enact its agenda.Douglas County Democrat Kevin Leung declared victory on Wednesday afternoon in Senate District 30 when he led incumbent Republican Rep. John Carson with 52.5% of the vote. The Associated Press had not called the race by the time of publication. Republican-backed groups spent millions of dollars to defend the district, especially in October as the race narrowed.“Outside groups spent millions trying to keep this seat, but our volunteers kept showing up,” Leung said in a statement. “To everyone who gave up a Saturday to walk one more block, and to every neighbor who opened the door and heard us out, thank you. You won this race.”</blockquote>By Friday afternoon the Associated Press had called the race, with the Colorado Sun noting a huge resource disparity between winner and loser–and not the direction you’d think:<blockquote>In Senate District 30, Democrat Kevin Leung, a former school board member, unseated Republican state Sen. John Carson. The Associated Press called the race for Leung at 9:21 a.m. Friday, with 52.4% of the votes tallied in favor of Leung and 47.6% in favor of Carson.Republican groups spent about $4.3 million to help Carson in the Highlands Ranch district, and Democratic groups spent about $181,000 for Leung… [Pols emphasis]</blockquote><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0OkTjr_1Gv9cJs600" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0OkTjr_1Gv9cJs600" width="1125" height="989" ></figure>Newslinereported in late October, that order-of-magnitude mismatch is not a misprint:<blockquote>The Senate Majority Fund also spent over $700,000 in October to support Carson, the incumbent Republican senator in Senate District 30, which covers south metro Denver communities such as Highlands Ranch and Lone Tree. Carson was appointed to the seat in 2025 and is facing a challenge from Democrat Kevin Leung. The Senate Majority Fund spent over $250,000, for example, for door-to-door canvassing efforts in the district and another $30,000 on direct mail ads.Carson has raised about $143,000 for his own campaign and has spent around $112,000. In October, he also benefited from $31,000 in outside spending from Southern Colorado Business Action and $274,000 from Lower Energy Costs Colorado, a committee funded by the oil and gas trade organization Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development.Leung, however, has had scant outside spending supporting him in October except for around $20,000 from reproductive rights nonprofit Cobalt and a few thousand from All Together Colorado…</blockquote>Unfortunately, Republicans didn’t just lavishly spend to defend Republican incumbent Sen. John Carson. At several points during the campaign the attacks on Leung took on racial overtones, beginning in late July when Douglas County Campaign Watch demanded that Leung disclose “any” ties to the Chinese Communist Party (above right)–because apparently that’s what you do to anyone who happens to be of Chinese ancestry. Then in October, a TV spot attacking Leung drew criticism for its subtle racial stereotyping:<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1oljbb_1Gv9cJs600" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1oljbb_1Gv9cJs600" width="686" height="383" ></figure>We saw these ads when they were originally called out, and chose not to post about them since that would only raise their profile. But along with the massive spending to defend Carson’s seat, these subtle appeals to racial prejudice are indicators of just how desperate Republicans got this year as the forecasts of historic losses started to crystallize. Republicans discovered last Tuesday that maybe excepting Florida, there are no safe spaces for them anymore. Pouring money into saving incumbents in traditionally safe parts of the state like exurban Douglas County was a small-scale version of Donald Trump’s frenetic tour of red states right before the election, and it had a similar result.When you’re desperate, you’re at your worst.</div></body>

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Assessing the sweeping victories for Colorado Democrats in last week’s midterm elections, one of the bigger achievements on their lengthy list is winning a supermajority in both chambers of the Colorado General Assembly for the first time since 1936. This feat was accomplished via big wins that encroach deeply into what was formerly considered unwinnable territory for Democrats. Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reported last Wednesday:

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