October 13, 2016
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A DA M S C OU N T Y & J EF F ERS ON C OU N T Y, C OLOR A DO
‘A tough election for everyone’
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Local party organizations campaign for their candidates amid contentious rhetoric By Clarke Reader creader@coloradocommunitymedia.com Heading into the last month of the election cycle, everyone — regardless of political affinity — seems to agree that this has been one of the most singular and interesting elections in recent memory. According to research by the polling website FiveThirtyEight, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are the most disliked candidates in the past 10 elections. Don’t miss “This is a tough Colorado election for evCommunity eryone,” said Anil Media’s guide Matha, chair of to the 2016 the Adams County local and state Republican Party. elections in “There is a lot of next week’s anger on both edition. sides, and a lot of discussion and debate.” Pundits, pollsters and people on the street have all pointed to this year’s election as the most polarizing in recent history. Some blame the divide on the candidates themselves, some on their disparate approaches to government. “It’s no wonder people feel that there’s a little more hate,” said Kyle Saunders, a political science professor at Colorado State University since 2004. “It’s no wonder that people feel that society’s a little more on edge. It’s because it is.” “Basically,” he said, “what we are seeing is a reflexive dislike for somebody on the other side, and the fear that goes along with that.”
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Northglenn senior volleyball players, from left, Isa Padilla, Tahpanga Ruth and Kiara Czubatiuk lock arms during pregame introductions at Thornton High School before last week’s match. Find more coverage from the game on PAGE 19. Photo by Stefan Brodsky
Johnson makes first stop in Colorado Libertarian candidate draws capacity crowd, urges end to two-party system By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com In his first campaign stop in Colorado, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson tried to chart a course for libertarianism as a centrist position rather than one at the fringes of politics. “I think my stance on the issues is actually reflective of most Americans,” the former Republican governor of New Mexico repeated several times to reporters as well as to the crowd at his Oct. 3 rally at CU South Denver, just west of Parker. “That being: fiscally conservative, socially inclusive, skeptical of wars, skeptical of military interventions, regime change and supporting free markets,” he continued. Johnson noted that he and his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, were both re-elected as Republican governors in Democratic-majority states. Johnson has polled well in Colorado, the birthplace of the national Libertarian Party, where the leading presidential
Gary Johnson answers questions prior to his rally at CU South Denver. The Libertarian presidential candidate said his goal is to break up the two-party system. Photo by Kyle Harding candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are unpopular. Johnson received 1.38 percent of the state’s vote in 2012, and in a CNN poll
conducted Sept. 20-25 he got 13 percent among likely voters.
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