All 65 state House seats and 20 of the 35 Senate seats are up for election this year, but in the end it's all about a handful of races, the majority of which are in Arapahoe and Jefferson counties. Those contests will determine which party controls the House and the Senate for the next two years. Democrats currently hold a 20-15 majority in the Senate, while Republicans have a 33-32 edge in the House. Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said he didn't want to venture a guess as to how the partisan makeup of the legislature might change after this election. "There are an awful lot of close races," Hickenlooper said, "so I would invoke that great Denver journalist, Damon Runyon, when he said,...
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