# Colorado Recall Elections

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 11, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555 "2013-09-11T05:38:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 17

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/321 "2014-02-12T16:31:06Z")

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> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#):
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> True, but I’ve never understood the rationale behind it as an insult.
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> I’d feel the same if instead of being a Democrat, I was a Republican and left-wing posters on the board started referring to “the Republic party.”

To me the Democratic party connotes a party based on a particular liberal political philosophy, while Democrat party connotes a party made up of individual Democrats who are only looking out after their own petty needs.

The equivalent on the other side would probably be the Republican’s party.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/322 "2014-02-12T17:45:58Z")

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See also “Demoncrats,” “Demonrats,” "Dumohcrats, “Dhimmicrats,” etc., etc. (compare “Repugnican,” “Rethuglican,” etc.).

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**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/323 "2014-02-12T18:18:16Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> See also “Demoncrats,” “Demonrats,” "Dumohcrats, “Dhimmicrats,” etc., etc. (compare “Repugnican,” “Rethuglican,” etc.).

Sometimes it’s just an [unintentional mistake](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17091680&postcount=95)though, right, **BrainGlutton**?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/324 "2014-02-12T18:51:55Z")

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> [@Bone](#):
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> Sometimes it’s just an [unintentional mistake](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17091680&postcount=95)though, right, **BrainGlutton**?

Aye; but if you see the same poster make it two or three times in a row, maybe not.

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/325 "2014-02-13T04:38:26Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Effort To Repeal Colorado Gun Control Laws Fails.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/colorado-gun-control-repeal_n_4768638.html)

Well, that’ll make Udall’s reelection difficult.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/326 "2014-02-13T16:10:35Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> Well, that’ll make Udall’s reelection difficult.

Noted. 😉

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