(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Mark Baisley
80%
20%↓
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(D) Dwayne Romero
(R) Ron Hanks
50%↓
30%↓
30%↑
20%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Mel Tewahade
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%
As we noted over the weekend, Governor Jared Polis is hearing from a bipartisan group of county clerks and prosecutors who want him to refuse requests from the Justice Department to take federal custody of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder serving a 9-year prison sentence for breaking into her own election […]
TUESDAY UPDATE: Fox News breaks the news this morning that the FBI is investigating Democrats who participated in a video about the law pertaining to obedience to illegal orders, including Colorado’s Rep. Jason Crow: The FBI and Department of Justice have contacted Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six members of Congress who appeared […]
Xcel Energy in Colorado submitted a request for a 10% rate increase on Friday. Xcel was no doubt hoping to avoid too much negative publicity by making the move on the front end of what is a long holiday weekend for many people. As Judith Kohler reports for The Denver Post: Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest […]
(When you can’t beat ’em the old-fashioned way — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Ostensibly, ballot initiatives are meant as a way for the average citizen to create political change without the Legislature. But over half of the initiatives which could be put to Colorado voters in 2026 have […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Kalen McCain reports first locally, the Trump administration is preparing another boundary-pushing executive order that seeks to pre-empt Colorado law regulating the use of artificial intelligence in decision-making roles that could affect individual rights, opening yet another front in Donald Trump’s relentless expansion of presidential power and in the regulation […]
Americans are not happy with President Trump. Trump’s approval ratings in a string of recent polls have fallen precipitously as Americans fret about rising prices; increasing health care costs; the fallout from the federal government shutdown; and headlines about Trump’s connection to deceased gross guy Jeffrey Epstein. Trump’s numbers are so bad, in fact, […]
Yesterday afternoon, for reasons we find moderately puzzling, Republican gubernatorial candidate Barb Kirkmeyer announced an endorsement of her lackluster campaign by a fellow Republican who is, like Kirkmeyer, on the downward back slope from his career apex: After years of labor and considerable expense building a majority on the Aurora City Council to carry out […]
(Gabe Evans MSU again — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Last Wednesday, Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans made a shocking but false statement on a local conservative podcast: “Denver International Airport right now is doing strategic blackouts when there’s high demand on the grid because there’s not enough power to […]
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage: [image or embed] — Rep. Jason Crow (@crow.house.gov) November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM —– As Politico reports, a video recorded by Democratic lawmakers with military service experience reminding members of the […]
As The Associated Press reports, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is among 10 others across the country asking the Department of Justice, “WTF?” Ten Democratic secretaries of state, including Colorado’s Jena Griswold, asked the Trump administration Tuesday to provide more information about its wide-ranging efforts to seek statewide voter registration lists, citing concerns that […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we can finally shut up about the shut down as it has met a rather anticlimactic end right in time for the holiday travel crunch, but, the only thing we care about is…WHO WON, and, hey, what the hell is going on with all those healthcare premiums anyway…and, […]
UPDATE: The U.S. Senate quickly followed suit and approved the Epstein Files Transparency Act, sending the bill to the desk of President Trump. —– House Speaker Mike Johnson kept the entire lower chamber away from Washington D.C. for 54 days in order to stall action on directing the Department of Justice to release the “Epstein […]
As we noted last week, soon-to-be-former Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky was casting around for her next elected office after a surprising defeat in her re-election campaign. With more time to ponder her political future, Jurinsky has apparently decided against running for an open seat on the Douglas County Board of Commissioners in District […]
Buried at the bottom of yesterday’s Unaffiliated newsletter from the Colorado Sun is an item Democratic insiders have been anticipating for some weeks, rumblings of an impending primary campaign challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper: Annie Orloff, managing partner at the Democratic political consulting firm the MAC Group, posted job descriptions on LinkedIn over the […]
As FOX 31’s Jacob Factor reports, now that the government has re-opened without a deal to prevent massive health insurance premium hikes mandated by the Republican “We’re All Going To Die” budget bill passed this summer, House Democrats are loading up a discharge petition to force a House vote on extending the premium subsidies like […]
Colorado Public Radio’s health policy reporter John Daley with the latest way the Trump administration is looking to undo crucial protections you enjoy not only as an American, but as a Coloradan–an example of the convenient flexibility of the Tenth Amendment for Republicans when it stands athwart well-monied special interests: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s 2017 all over again, but bigger, better, and BLUE-YER as Democrats from all sides of the spectrum ride an anti-Trump wave to huge win margins across the country that are sending Republicans into the long, dark teatime of the soul. We unpack the results of the 2025 […]
In Donald Trump’s first Presidential administration, he was often mocked for regularly claiming that the White House was two weeks away from unveiling a health care plan that would be cheaper and more effective and better tasting than the Affordable Care Act (ACA). During the 2024 Presidential election, Trump took that idea to a new […]
As the Washington Post reports, and if you’re plugged into political news at all you’ve most likely already formed a strong opinion about: Seven Democrats and an independent senator who caucuses with them split with their party to vote for a deal that would pave the way to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. […]
The federal government shutdown is now officially the longest in U.S. history (surpassing the 2018-19 shutdown also under President Trump’s watch). After Tuesday’s massive election victories, Democrats have new reason to stick to their shutdown narrative about holding the line until Affordable Care Act subsidies are renewed. Republicans, meanwhile, have a new set of terrible […]
Whoa. No, seriously: WHOA! It would be hard to overstate how bigly Democrats won on Tuesday, both here in Colorado and throughout the country, but we’re going to try! The 2025 election was a MASSIVE repudiation of all things MAGA and Donald Trump that should send shivers down the spine of every Republican running for […]
As the reckoning following yesterday’s momentous off-year elections in which Democrats triumphed at all levels of the ballot in contests large and small across the country in a broader referendum against the first chaotic months of the second Donald Trump presidency gets underway today, there is perhaps no Republican in the state of Colorado feeling […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the money is pouring into primary elections in Colorado, but, really just for one party, can you guess which one? Best friend of the pod Christy Powell is back to break down the third quarter fundraising results in Colorado. Also, the shutdown shitshow continues into its sixth week, and […]
There’s no avoiding polling data in politics. Not all data is the same, however, and some is more accurately predictive than others. One question that has been asked regularly for decades is much more indicative of election outcomes than others: The Generic Congressional Ballot. The GCB asks respondents, If the election for U.S. House of Representatives […]
(The drama llama strikes the House GOP mini-minority once again — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Colorado state Rep. Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose) will not run for reelection next year. Speaking at the Fremont County GOP monthly meeting last night, Luck cited the need to spend more time with her […]
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