Live results: New district lines create tough House fight in Colorado

By Matt Pearce

Nov. 6, 2012 12 AM PT

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While the 2012 election doesn’t offer much promise of a change in politics as usual, you can’t say the same for several congressional races around the country, where redistricting has forced many incumbents to redo the political math that had guided them to office in previous elections.

One of those races includes Colorado’s 6^th Congressional District, where Republican Rep. Mike Coffman and Democratic Rep. Joe Miklosi saw a newly shaped district – once safe for Coffman – turn into a highly competitive battleground.

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Matt Pearce

Matt Pearce was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times from 2012 to 2024. He previously covered the covering internet culture and podcasting, the 2020 presidential election and spent six years on The Times’ national desk, where he wrote stories about violence, disasters, social movements and civil liberties. Pearce was one of the first national reporters to arrive in Ferguson, Mo., during the uprising in 2014, and he chased Hurricane Harvey across Texas as the storm ravaged the Lone Star State in 2017. A University of Missouri graduate, he hails from a small town outside Kansas City, Mo.