Colorado

:For other uses, see Colorado (disambiguation).

Law and government

Like the majority of the states, Colorado's current constitution provides for three branches of government: the legislative, executive and judicial branches. The legislative body is the General Assembly made up of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives has 65 members and the Senate has 35. Currently, Democrats are in control of both chambers of the General Assembly. The 2005 Colorado General Assembly is the first to be controlled by the Democrats in forty years.

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States - Constitution - Democrats - 2005

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Colorado is considered a very independent state politically, with 17 of the governors Democrat and 12 of them Republican in the last 100 years. The state supported Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, and the Republican presidential nominees in 1996 and 2000. Recently, the state appears to be going more towards the center. George W. Bush won the state's 9 electoral votes in 2004 by a margin of 5 percentage points with 51.7% of the vote, considerably less than the 9% margin Bush won by in 2000 http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/special/president/showdown/CO/. Democrats also gained in every open seat race in the state, picking up a seat in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Democrats are strongest in metropolitan Denver, Boulder, southern Colorado, and a few western ski resort counties, while Republicans are strongest in the rural plains region, Colorado Springs, the Western Slope, and some of the Denver suburbs.

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Governors - Democrat - Republican - Bill Clinton - 1992 - 1996 - 2000 - George W. Bush - 2004 - Senate - House of Representatives - Metropolitan Denver - Boulder - Colorado Springs - Western Slope - Denver - Suburbs

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The two Senators from Colorado are Wayne Allard (Republican) and Ken Salazar (Democrat).

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Senators - Wayne Allard - Ken Salazar

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The governor heads the state's executive branch. The current governor of Colorado is Bill Owens (Republican). See: List of Colorado Governors

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Bill Owens - List of Colorado Governors

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