• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Is she not still in office?

    A US rep doesn’t have that much pull. A US senator has so much more. Plus boebert almost lost at least one of her last elections if I recall, she will probably be out by next year if she’s still in already.

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        3 hours ago

        I am getting a polling average of 51 to 48, in her favor, with the probability of her winning at 61 percent but it doesn’t explain the methadology behind that at votehub.com and I am skeptical of that. Probably betting markets they report on without even an explanation.

        But from another site, she has underperformed the polls every time, and it’s gotten worse through time.

        Edit: copied wrong part of article, here is what I meant:
        'First consider that Boebert is a serial underachiever at the polls, and her performance has worsened every cycle.

        At the time of her first campaign in the 3rd Congressional District in the 2020 election, the district leaned right by roughly 13 points, but she beat her Democratic opponent by just 7 points. When she ran for reelection in 2022, the redrawn 3rd District favored Republicans by 9 points, but Boebert’s 546-vote victory margin made that House race the closest in the country.

        For the 2024 race she fled the 3rd District for the safer electoral prospects of the 4th, which was drawn with a practically insurmountable 27-point Republican advantage. Indeed, she beat Democratic challenger Trisha Calvarese by 12 points, but that superficially strong win came with a spread that squandered more than half of the district’s built-in boost.

        Boebert’s electoral trajectory over the last six years suggests further mediocrity in November.’

        https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/02/06/impossible-is-possible-lauren-boeberts/

        So her most conservative district in the state in the eastern plains of colorado will likely remain with her, but it’s a toss up unless you credit probabilities given with no methodology, unless you count a 50 page pdf with no real table of contents.

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          1 hour ago

          It’s not really the eastern plains though. It seems that’s tossed around to make it sound like she absconded to the rural, barren wasteland to find hick voters because she’s being outcast from the Republican party - while part of her district is the plains there’s virtually no one there. It’s Douglas county where all her constituents actually are and that’s the wealthy southern suburbs of Denver. I’m fact, she has one of if not the wealthiest districts in the state. DougCo has seen some demographic shake ups recently, however, so we’ll see how long that contingent of folks keeps voting red as they recently ousted their conservative school board.

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            2 hours ago

            That was what the pasted part of the article was saying. She has always underperformed the polls, and it’s gotten worse. In 2024 a 27 point lead led to her winning b 12.

            2022 she polled 9 points ahead and won by less than one, (500 some vote victory.)

            In 2020 the party was 13 ahead and she won by 7.

            She is only polling like 3 points ahead now.