Show Summary – Western Skies #162– Noverber 09, 2006

DEMOCRATS DO WELL IN COLORADO
: It was a good night for Democrats across the country and in Colorado. For an overview of state races, we go to Bente Birkeland in Denver. [LISTEN]

VOTING IN DENVER: WHAT A DRAG
Bente Birkeland reports on the hassles associated with voting the Colorado's capitol city this year. [LISTEN]

VOTE WOES IN WESTCLIFFE, TOO
It wasn't just voters in Denver who had to stand in long lines at the polls this year. Difficulties with the new voting machines plagued even rural communities. Instead of stepping into the age of digital technology on Election Day, some 200 citizens of tiny Custer county found themselves making X's in boxes on photocopied ballots. Shanna Lewis reports. [LISTEN]

DENVER MAYOR STEAMED OVER VOTE SNAFU
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said the problems with voting in his city, quote, made his blood boil. Bente Birkeland reports on what he intends to do about it [LISTEN]

DEM PLANS FOR NEW MAJORITY IN STATEHOUSE
Democrats strengthened their hold on both houses of the state legislature. They picked up at least three seats in the state house and two in the senate - This is the first time since the fifties that Democrats have controlled both the statehouse and the Governor's chair. On the day after the elections, party leaders stressed bipartisanship - once again, here's Bente Birkeland. [LISTEN]

FAWCETT LOSES BIG, MERRIFIELD TRIUMPHS AGAIN, AND ED JONES IS OUSTED
For all of the Democratic victories at the national, state and local level, it was mostly disappointment for the party in Colorado Springs. Party standard-bearer Jay Fawcett failed to take the U.S. House Seat, but county Democrats are sending twice as many legislators to Denver this year. [LISTEN]

POST-ELECTION ANALYSIS FROM JASON BANE
All election season long we've been hearing from Jason Bane, who writes for 5280 magazine and Coloradopols.com. We get some post-election analysis from him now, in this day-after-the-election chat with Sam Fuqua, news director at KGNU in Boulder. [LISTEN]

COMMENTARY: REBORN IN THE FALL
Now that election season is over, like the summer growing season, commentator Sandra Knauf is reflecting on whether all the hassle was worth it - all the hassle gardeners put into growing things, that is, as well as the vigilance voters must practice as the price of democracy. [LISTEN]

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