(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%
Last week we asked you who ran the worst campaign in 2006, and you had plenty to say about that. Now it’s time for the reverse: Who ran the best campaign? Remember, we’re not asking who was the best candidate, but who ran the best campaign. You may not love Marilyn Musgrave, for example, but […]
Reform Party candidate Eric Eidsness has been coming in near 10 percent in recent CD-4 polls, and as Colorado Confidential reports, he has picked up the endorsements of both the Fort Morgan Times and the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Combine those endorsements with all of the negative ads being run against Republican Marilyn Musgrave and Democrat […]
Ladies and gentlemen, those are the finest teeth of any candidate running today for the 7th Congressional District. If we didn’t know better we’d swear this was another permutation of Marc Holtzman’s magic photo growth spurt. They’re Crest-commercial perfection. O’Donnell released a new commercial today, “Clean Up” — opponent Ed Perlmutter released a new one […]
I’m not at all suprised that Romer won the SD-32 race. He was by far the best candidate and worked harder than either of his opponents. As shown by his large winning margin, the people of SD-32 love him and, just like me, are excited to see what he can do for us in the […]
Congratulations to us for winning the reader’s choice award from Westword for the best blog of 2006.
We wrote last week that Rep. Jim Welker had earned his title as Colorado’s dumbest legislator by not only continuing to forward ridiculously offensive e-mails…but by insisting that it would have made all the difference in the world if he had just included a “disclaimer” that he didn’t agree with everything in the e-mail. Well, […]
Congratulations to Rep. Jim Welker, perhaps the dumbest legislator in Colorado. You might remember Welker as the genius who forwarded an e-mail to colleagues that could easily be construed as racist, and which prompted the resignation of a public-relations adviser to the Loveland Republican. Well, as it turns out, this Mensa member has been doing […]
Rep. Jim Welker, the same political mastermind who last session tried to compare — to much embarassment from his own party — homosexuality to bestiality, is at it again. As the Rocky Mountain News reports, Welker thought it would be a good idea to forward around an e-mail that contained ingenious statements such as: When […]
Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute is turning out to be one of the best things that could have happened to the Referenda C&D campaign. A few weeks ago it was former Senate President John Andrews shooting the campaign in the foot, but Caldara seems intent on catching up. Two weeks ago he admitted that […]
UPDATE: For what it’s worth, a “pardon” signed by President Trump is now available on the Department of Justice website. —– President Trump is really feeling the Holiday season in 2025. A few weeks after symbolically pardoning a couple of turkeys in the annual pre-Thanksgiving event at the White House, Trump did it again on […]
(the race to replace “Three-Vote Becky” is on — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder After Colorado Rep. Rebecca Keltie (R-Colorado Springs) announced she wouldn’t be running for reelection to her House District 16 seat, she endorsed Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education Vice President Jill Haffley. “I […]
Once again, the representative of Colorado’s most culturally sleepy rural backwater Rep. Lauren Boebert, having traded the state’s picturesque Western Slope for the rolling depopulated prairie of the Eastern Plains, is making national celebrity gossip headlines after another embarrassing incident–this time outside the exclusive holiday party hosted by expelled, convicted, imprisoned, and then freed by […]
As CBS News’ Caitlin Yilek reports, members of Congress on both sides with a conscience or sense of political self-preservation are becoming increasingly vocal about the need to address expiring health insurance premium subsidies before the end of the year, before millions of Americans face premium hikes that could devastate them financially: Republican moderates in […]
As readers know, the political football over the permanent home of the U.S. Space Command with its attendant thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in public investment has been one of the more brazen examples of Donald Trump’s transactional style of leadership, at length rewarding the loyal Republican state of Alabama with the prize […]
(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 […]
Following the request last week by the Department of Justice for the transfer of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from state custody into the federal prison system, a move that would likely result in Peters’ swift release as the last person serving time over President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the result of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 9NEWS reported last night, President Donald Trump’s refusal to fund SNAP food assistance benefits during the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, despite lower court orders to do so and initial moves the U.S. Department of Agriculture to comply with those rulings, was temporarily upheld by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson through […]
As The Washington Post reports, Republicans across the country are still trying to understand how the 2025 elections went so horribly wrong for the party in control of Congress and the White House: Republicans are reeling after Democrats swept off-year races in several blue and purple states across the country on Tuesday, blaring a warning […]
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 […]
The ongoing federal government shutdown will take its place as the longest in U.S. history this week, surpassing the 2018-19 shutdown (also under President Trump) that only ended after Trump caved on demands for Congress to fund a wall along the southern border. Americans have largely blamed Republicans for the shutdown since the beginning; those […]
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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