(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%
One of the principal criticisms of Colorado’s Tasmanian devil of controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert is that she spends too much of her time on wedge-issue grandstands and political sideshows like the half-baked impeachment of Joe Biden, and not enough time on issues actually pertinent to the people and economy of the vast expanse of Colorado […]
As the Washington Post’s Liz Goodwin reports, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced today that he is dropping most of his unilaterally imposed holds on military promotions, ending an impasse that had become a major bipartisan controversy as frustrated fellow Republicans finally joined with Democrats to demand Tuberville’s ten-month grandstand end: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced […]
The Colorado GOP’s new point man on election integrity, notorious election denier Ron Hanks, who kicked off his efforts by telling the Republican members of local election boards to refuse to sign off on certifying their county election results, escalated his rhetoric recently by calling Secretary of State Jena Griswold Hitler. He also convinced five […]
Indicted Republican freshman Rep. George Santos of New York faces a motion to be expelled from in the U.S. House of Representatives tomorrow, the third such attempt to remove Santos after Santos’ movie-plot alleged double life as a serial fabulist and canine con artist who turned his congressional campaign into a discretionary spending account for […]
The Iowa caucuses, to the extent that they still even matter, are just 49 days away. Let’s Get More Smarter. 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 an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
This morning, Colorado’s America’s most vulnerable incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert did something she in her term and a half in Congress has almost never done for local candidates who (at least at one time) could have used her help–an endorsement, not just for a fellow Republican but wading into a safe-seat GOP primary in […]
awesome + uniting Colorado coffee shop cracks the top 5 in USA Today’s national ranking Environmental Group Ranks Colorado 7th in Progress Toward Aligning Transporation Policy with Climate Goals Interview: Jared Polis joins Utah’s governor to talk civility in politics, even with contentious state issues awesome + controversy Colorado has “abysmal” recycling rate, but most […]
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” –Plautus
As NPR reports, yet another long-sought goal of the hardliner Freedom Caucus, the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, died yesterday after a deja vu-inducing eight Republicans joined with Democrats to circular file the measure into committee oblivion: The House voted Monday to push off a Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro […]
UPDATE: NBC News reports that Democrats are warming to Speaker Mike Johnson’s continuing resolution proposal, potentially averting a shutdown at the end of the week and further isolating GOP hardliners like Rep. Lauren Boebert: After trashing the idea of a two-step strategy to fund the government, House Democrats signaled on Monday they are open to […]
HOW TO GET YOUR DIARY PROMOTED The best diaries to promote are those that are both relevant and require little editing for the administrators of the site. You are MUCH more likely to see your diary promoted, for example, if you follow these simple suggestions: 1. Make the headline relevant and short (and please, NEWSMAN, […]
It’s been just over ten years since the last comprehensive site redesign of Colorado Pols, which is longer than several generations of competitors who came and went during the same time period–illustrating the point that without the product, the packaging isn’t what matters. Nonetheless in the last ten years there have been innumerable updates to […]
Nobody is a bigger fan of outgoing Denver School Board member Auon’tai Anderson — formerly known as “Tay” Anderson — than Auon’tai Anderson. If Anderson ended up with an official fan club, you can bet that he would throw his tiny hat into the ring for the position of club president. The controversial, oft-censured, and […]
As we took note of last week, America’s most vulnerable Republican incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert has been the subject of a wave of political journalist “think pieces” analyzing in detail how her already-flagging campaign for a third term after winning her second by a mere 546 votes has been further damaged by “the Beetlejuice incident.” […]
Predicting political outcomes is a tough task, in large part because there are so many variables that can change in a relatively-quick period of time that completely upend the conventional wisdom. A few key events can take something that might seem like an otherwise ridiculous premise (like, say, Donald Trump becoming President of the United […]
Though you’d be excused if you missed it in the rush of news, yesterday in the immediate aftermath of Rep. Ken Buck’s formal announcement that he would not run for re-election in 2024 the first candidate announced in what’s expected to be a clown car of Republicans vying to succeed Buck in this safest of […]
Seth Klamann of The Denver Post reports on some great news coming out a new budget proposal unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Jared Polis: Gov. Jared Polis proposed fully funding Colorado’s public education system for the first time in 14 years Wednesday, even as he unveiled a budget plan that he said signaled a return to […]
As readers know, this weekend’s annual Colorado Republican Party fundraising gala will feature as its keynote speaker infamous serial election denier and Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, one of the most ardent supporters of ex-President Donald Trump who argues to this day that both Trump’s re-election in 2020 and her own loss in last […]
Congressman Ken Buck (R-Greeley) announced today that he would not seek a sixth term in 2024, which is something that we predicted both on Colorado Pols and the Get More Smarter Podcast in early August. Buck had apparently grown weary of complaining about things, taking multiple positions on every issue, and then contributing absolutely nothing […]
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” –Thomas A. Edison
Proposition HH, one of the two statewide measures on the ballot in 2023, has been generating a lot of media coverage lately — in no small part because there’s not much else to really talk about in this election cycle that affects everyone in the state. If you’re unfamiliar with Prop. HH or just need […]
Yesterday at the Colorado State Capitol, as 9NEWS reports, students from the Colorado Youth Advisory Council presented their annual proposals for legislation addressing “needs affecting Colorado youth now and in the future.” The teenagers are a part of the Colorado Youth Advisory Council. It was created in 2008 to better understand students’ needs. Students create […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) “I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.” – Billy Graham According to the New York Times, Pastor Jared […]
A little less than an hour ago, Axios’ Juliegrace Brufke broke news of a letter, purportedly from the “Gaetz Eight” Republicans who voted to oust ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling for the GOP House Majority to rally around embattled GOP speaker nominee Jim Jordan just minutes after Jordan lost his third round of voting this morning: […]
We’re taking a break from wondering if Congress will ever again function normally in order to point you to some absolutely breathtaking corruption currently taking place in one Colorado Springs school district. We haven’t seen any other reporting on this story, but we absolutely should; this is one of those tales that needs to be […]
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