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November 01, 2016 12:08 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (November 1)

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MoreSmarterLogo-ElectionWe don’t care what your friend says; it’s not socially acceptable to still be wearing your Halloween costume today. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show.

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Got ballot? If you don’t — or if you know someone who still hasn’t received a ballot — then you had better do something about it. Go to JustVoteColorado.org to start investigating the problem and contact your county clerk for answers. You can always vote at a polling place as well, whether or not you have received a mail ballot (but only if you haven’t already submitted a completed ballot).

Officials are encouraging voters to drop completed ballots at any number of collection sites rather than putting them in the mail as Election Day nears. Check here for your nearest polling and ballot crop-off locations. The Colorado Independent has more on mail ballots and deadlines.

 

► Early ballot returns still favor Democrats in Colorado by nearly 30,000 votes. As we’ve noted in this space on multiple occasions, it is unprecedented for Democrats to be at all ahead of Republicans in early voting.

 

► Local postal workers joined with Governor John Hickenlooper on Monday to dispel the notion from Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump that there could be ballot problems in Colorado — specifically the idea that postal workers could somehow see through envelopes and discard ballots that favored the GOP nominee. Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State, meanwhile, continues to publicly challenge Trump’s suggestion of ballot fraud in our state.

 

► With Election Day just eight days away, campaign surrogates for both major party Presidential candidates continue to make stops in Colorado. Labor Secretary Tom Perez is in Colorado today, along with Chelsea Clinton, to stump on behalf of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will also make another stop in Colorado sometime before Election Day.

On the Republican side of things, Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence will campaign on behalf of Donald Trump in Loveland on Wednesday.

 

► Can’t wait for the results on Election Day? Check out the Halloween edition of the Get More Smarter Show for a sneak preview of the outcome next week.

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

 

► Republican Senate candidate Darryl Glenn is bursting with momentum as he seeks to unseat Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in the last week before Election Day. Totally.

 

► Jason Salzman takes a look at the best political reporting in Colorado this year.

 

► A new Washington Post/ABC News tracking poll shows that voters are not particularly enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton for President. Of course, voters are also not very excited about Donald Trump, either; these trends have been fairly steady for most of the election cycle. 

 

► Fiona Arnold, the head of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, is stepping down so that she can get business cards that don’t contain so many letters. Actually, Arnold is resigning to go to work full-time as the head of a real estate investment firm that she founded.

 

► As Mark Matthews reports for the Denver Post, Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign is spending some last-minute money on TV ads in Colorado designed to help increase turnout to benefit down-ballot Congressional candidates:

Hillary Clinton hasn’t run a TV ad in Colorado since July, but on Monday her campaign said it planned buy to commercials in Denver, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction for the final week of the campaign.

Asked about the timing, her Colorado staff said the new ads were not in response to the latest controversy over Clinton’s e-mails. Rather, they said the intent is to help candidates such as Morgan Carroll and Gail Schwartz, two Colorado Democrats looking to unseat Republican U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton, respectively.

“We have a robust lead in ballots returned, but Colorado Democrats have competitive races to win across the state. And Hillary Clinton is committed to electing progressives up and down the ballot to make a real difference for families in Colorado,” said Emmy Ruiz, Clinton’s Colorado director, in a statement.

Her campaign aides did not disclose the size of the buy, other than to say it would cost six figures and include two ads — both of which attack the temperament of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.

 

► There are apparently still plenty of undecided voters in Colorado, as John Frank reports for the Denver Post. We have a hard time believing that anybody is truly still undecided on top-ticket races, but it’s fun to say that you haven’t yet made up your mind.

 

► The Colorado Independent takes a closer look at Amendment 70 and how a proposal to raise the minimum wage in Colorado would be implemented.

 

► Donald Trump totally believes in polling so long as it shows him what he wants to see.

 

► The open enrollment period for health insurance begins today. 

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► The political winds continue to shift away from Republicans. Florida Congressman John Mica has been all but untouchable since first winning his seat in 1993, but Republicans fear he may lose his job to upstart Democrat Stephanie Murphy.

 

► Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is making changes in the Department of Excise and Licenses.

ICYMI

► Game 6 of the World Series takes places tonight in Cleveland, with the Indians holding a 3-2 advantage over the Chicago Cubs. If the Cubs can tie the series tonight, the deciding Game 7 will be held on Wednesday in Cleveland.

 

Don’t forget to check out The Get More Smarter Show. You can also Get More Smarter by liking Colorado Pols on Facebook!

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  1. Be sure to watch the Get More Smarter Halloween Show.  It has great political insight despite the production values of an amateur porn video.  (DavidThi taught me all I know about passive-aggressiveness.)

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