(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(I remember the press holding vigil every day at Poudre Valley Hospital until Matthew Shepard died, and there have been regular press stories about his murder ever since. I didn’t hear about Angie Zapata until the trial of her killer and have heard nothing since. Something is wrong with that picture. – promoted by ThillyWabbit) […]
With the upcoming grocery strike, we’ve had an interesting discussion about unions here. I figure, let’s break it out in to its own diary. What is the future of unions? The number one problem unions face is that their leadership by and large is living in the past. They are applying the solutions of the […]
Today was the opening of the SharePoint Conference and it was kicked off with a keynote speech by Steve Ballmer. The message that came through loud and clear – Microsoft is back baby and it’s loaded for bear. They’ve got Google, Oracle, & IBM squarely in their sights and those three may not even see […]
In response to questions raised by a liberal group yesterday about freshly declared Senate candidate Jane Norton’s paperwork-free history in lobbying, the Colorado Independent made some phone calls: Was Jane Norton a health-industry lobbyist? If so, what did she lobby for, exactly? From 1994 to 1999, Norton headed the lobbying department of Englewood-based Medical Group […]
(I worry that my dog is blue… – promoted by ClubTwitty) From today’s Sentinel Salazar to highlight local health system in letter to Obama [Headers removed] The Grand Junction health-care system will be highlighted in a letter from U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., to President Obama – much to the delight of the physicians, nurses, […]
(The following is a liveblog I did of President Obama’s strategy meeting today with Democratic activists in Washington and all over the country.) 12:18: Hey everyone, I’m on hold with OFA right now waiting for the President to get on and talk with supporters about health care on the conference call. It’s supposed to start […]
We’ve been talking most of this week about North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling’s new set of automated telephone poll results–represented as bad news for Democrats, the underlying methodology leaves the poll rather open to deconstruction. Chief among the issues critics have raised with this latest poll is an apparent gross oversampling of self-identified GOP voters […]
Yes, we know there is a new Public Policy Polling automated telephone poll out today that makes various representations about the 2010 Senate race, part of a series of poll results PPP is releasing this week purporting to gauge Colorado opinion. Being an off year there aren’t as many public polls floating around to ruminate […]
Back in April, the folks at North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling released a series of automated telephone poll results that raised methodological and common-sense eyeballs around the state. One of the biggest red flags was a polled name ID for Sen. Michael Bennet of almost 75%, which was an absurdly high number for a freshly-appointed […]
From the Colorado Statesman: Months before Scott McInnis announced his campaign to unseat Gov. Bill Ritter in 2010, the former congressman spent more than $13,000 of the donations made to his federal leadership Political Action Committee to solicit support for the Colorado Republican Party, according to an analysis by The Colorado Statesman of campaign finance […]
Thursday night, Rep. Jared Polis hosted a phone-in townhall meeting that we understand was attended by a decent number of CD-2 voters. We weren’t on the call, but we’re told by liberals who have been alarmed of late by Polis’ controversial demands to reduce spending and taxes in the health care reform proposal that he […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Trey Rogers from Governor Bill Ritter’s office gave me a call today. We talked for half an hour about this post about a Colorado Public Radio spot on the progress being made by the Colorado Juvenile Clemency Board, which I understand from Mr. Rogers has been widely circulated by […]
I wanted to pass along one of the more goofy stories from Maine so far. COLUMN This time, gays are not the target http://pressherald.mainetoday…. July 15, 2009 File this one under “supreme irony.” Twenty-five years ago last week, a trio of young thugs beat up Charles Howard and tossed him off a bridge to his […]
From The New York Times: Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found that most Americans would be willing […]
As Colorado braces today for another bad budget projection, it’s at least a little comforting to know that the rest of the country is suffering — and in some cases, even worse than we are. As The New York Times reports: In Hawaii, state employees are bracing for furloughs of three days a month over […]
Every revolution is different but this strikes me as being much like our American Revolution where a number of the leaders in society are leading the effort and what they want is a change in the process, but not a radical change of the entire system. Two biggest pieces of news today HuffPo The Basij […]
I’ve been hosting the drive-time progressive radio show here in Colorado for the last month, as regular host Jay Marvin has been out sick. In the last two weeks, callers have been increasingly venting their frustration with appointed Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), both for his refusal to take a public position on the Employee Free […]
As you know, Anne McGihon has resigned from the state house, so a vacancy committee made of up of the district’s Democratic Precinct Committee People (was there ever a worse acronym?) along with some of the executive committee of the Denver county and Arapahoe county party get to decide who the next representative will be. […]
(More “citizen journalism” from Polsters! – promoted by Colorado Pols) John Flerlage, one of the two Democratic candidates for Congress from CD-6, joined me this morning on a windy Starbuck’s patio for a cup of coffee and a discussion concerning the issues that confront us, the policies that would best address those issues, and the […]
Eager political types who woke up this morning hoping for lots of press coverage of the new challenger to nationally infamous Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, former Eagle County Commissioner Thomas C. Stone, were rewarded mostly with crickets. Actually, it’s winter so there weren’t even crickets. We’ve only got one newspaper in town now, after […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) David Canter, one of the two Democratic candidates for Congress in CD-6, sat down recently to talk with me about why he is running, and what he feels qualifies him for the position. Here are some excerpts from that conversation: SH: David, tell me why you decided to run […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) I met with Representative Claire Levy this afternoon for an hour to hear what she was doing. So here’s the report from the Representative of the People’s Republic of Boulder. We talked first about the cell phone bill. She brought it up figuring it would get defeated but that […]
In general terms yesterday, as the Pueblo Chieftain reports: Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is getting his political baptism this week as he takes part in a bipartisan group of senators working to whittle down the $800-$900 billion stimulus package that President Barack Obama is calling for Congress to finish quickly. Bennet, a Democrat, has joined […]
The swift deterioration of Colorado’s budget outlook is emerging as the most dire situation our elected leadership has faced in many, many years. Colorado certainly isn’t alone in facing major shortfalls, though, and the massive new federal economic stimulus package being put together in Congress is focused on the stabilization of state budgets. It’s the […]
UPDATE: And this is pretty interesting: although the lobbyist accused of acting as Rep. Dave Balmer’s “emissary,” and two other persons implicated in the ethics complaint have offered sworn affidavits denying coordination with Balmer, it appears Balmer himself has made all responses to the ethics inquiry through legal counsel, which is not technically a response […]
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