(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The latest reports on the Affordable Care Act indicate that more than seven million Americans have enrolled nationally. For Colorado, newly-released metrics from the state exchange, ConnectforHealthCo.com, show that 277,000 Coloradans have enrolled, more than 118,000 through private insurance plans and more than 158,000 through the state’s Medicaid expansion. According […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols unveils yet another embarrassing moment for 2006 2014 GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez (video above): In June 2010, Beauprez appeared as a guest on The Talk to Solomon Show, and was asked about whether President Obama was born in American by the host, Stan Solomon, a favorite of fringe conservatives who is […]
AP's David Espo takes a high-level look at the last few remarkable days of Colorado politics: Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, moving toward the middle in a Senate race with national stakes, said Tuesday he abandoned his longtime support for measures giving legal rights to fertilized human eggs because it is a "settled issue" at home […]
Congressman Cory Gardner's surprise flip-flop on Personhood last Friday continues to rage as a story this week, with another Colorado Congressman now ensnared (Rep. Mike Coffman) and a strange new battle — among anti-abortion groups, no less — about whether we can really believe Gardner's Personhood reversal. In other words, Gardner's attempt to ditch Personhood […]
As the Denver Post's Jason Blevins reported yesterday: Rocky Mountain National Park ranked as the sixth-biggest loser among the parks and monuments shuttered during the federal government's closure last fall. The 16-day shutdown cost Colorado's busiest national park $10.9 million, with visitation plunging 73 percent in October compared with the previous three Octobers, according to […]
A press release from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Steve Israel today acknowledges what you already know about Colorado's 6th Congressional District race, listing Colorado's 2014 marquee congressional battle in the first round of the DCCC's "Red to Blue" program. In total, 35 districts are part of the initial list in the Red to Blue […]
The last three days have been some of the most dramatic in recent Colorado political history, with major changes affecting the races for the U.S. Senate, Colorado's 4th Congressional District, and very likely the Colorado gubernatorial race. The entry of Rep. Cory Gardner into the Senate race, which prompted the pre-arranged exit of erstwhile frontrunner Ken Buck and […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Radio host Jimmy Sengenberger broke news on his Velocity Radio show yesterday, when his guest Scott Gessler said he's "pretty confident" Bob Beauprez will enter the gubernatorial race, and Gessler pointed out that Beauprez ran a "pretty disastrous" campaign in 2006. Gessler (@1 hour 21 min): “I’ve heard the same thing. […]
Okay, so let's get this straight…The Republican Party is going to defeat Sen. Mark Udall with Rep. Cory Gardner? The GOP thinks their best chance in 2014 is running an anti-incumbent message through an incumbent member of Congress — which is now the most disliked group of individuals in the history of public polling? Huh?!? […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) You hear complaints about The Denver Post’s reduced coverage of politics, but the newspaper still has more political reporters than any other news outlet in Colorado. And it’s still the state’s leading source of political news. So, to show what’s happened to political journalism in Colorado, I thought I’d compare the […]
UPDATE: The conservative Daily Caller helps roll out the new female-friendly Ken Buck: Buck promises this video is merely be the first in a series of maybe ten, or so, he will release. And although they’re too long to air on TV in their current format, “at some point in time,” he avers, “parts of these […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you've been following Tom Tancredo from microphone to microphone over the years, like I have, you know he doesn't think his position on immigration is a liability for him in getting elected governor of Colorado. He thinks he can win in spite of it. So it was no surprise to […]
We've been talking about Q4 (2013) fundraising numbers for Colorado's U.S. Senate candidates, but the stunningly-poor quarter turned in by the three leading GOP contenders (Ken Buck, Owen Hill, Amy Stephens) is difficult to fully appreciate without looking at comparisons. We looked at fundraising numbers for (serious) Senate candidates in Colorado, considering only the 18 […]
Alex Altman writes for TIME Magazine: Reformers have spent months waiting for House Republicans to lay out a plan to rewrite U.S. immigration law. Now that the GOP has finally made its move, they can’t agree what to make of it. The blueprint released Thursday is “a game changer,” according to Tamar Jacoby, president of […]
The Denver Post- Mike Cerbo Guest Commentary Unemployment benefits have historically been our nation’s most important safety net and lifeline for those who are out of work. Now they have expired for 20,000 Coloradans and the economic impact is already being felt. The Great Recession hit close to home for many Colorado families. Since 2008, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Conservative activist Kelly "ish" Maher, who was a guest host on KNUS' Kelley and Company Friday, asked U.S. Senate candidate Amy Stephens a question that's been an obsession on conservative talk-radio lately: Maher: "Potentially, let's say, you make it out of the primary. And you are in a primary with some […]
UPDATE: A blast from the past–from the May 9, 1992 edition of the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, here is a far less reverent state Rep. Mike Coffman when it came to honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As written by John Sanko and Fawn Germer in their recap of "Unforgettable Moments of the '92 Legislative Session." […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) For the last eight years, Pueblo elections have been overseen by one of democracy’s fiercest advocates, Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz. Now, Ortiz is being challenged by a 28 year old plumber with no elected office experience, whose associates practice intimidation as a political tactic.
As we do after every fundraising quarter (see Q3 here), we've tallied up the money raised and spent by the various candidates running for statewide office in Colorado. There were some very clear winners for the period ending on December 31, 2013, and some equally clear losers. Media reports often show how much money candidates […]
(Open mouth, insert cowboy boot – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Salon picks up the story: Fast-forward three-plus years later, and Buck’s at it again. The goal this time? Don’t say anything stupidly and overtly sexist. That shouldn’t be too hard, right? Turns out, yep, that is too hard! Speaking on a talk radio […]
Legislators and state officials kept piling into Denver’s largest synagogue – Governor John Hickenlooper, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, former CO Senator John Morse, Senator Irene Aguilar, and many more. Before long, the enormous sanctuary which seats more than one thousand guests was full, with some well-wishers standing in the back. Two weeks after his death, and […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Much of the media coverage of the Colorado Attorney General's decision not to prosecute Jon Caldara, President of the libertarian/conservative Independence Institute, for voter fraud featured a quote from Caldara that the Attorney General's non-action proved his innocence. For example, there's this memorable Caldara quote from The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels' […]
At a time when radio stations are dumping local talk shows in favor of national (and cheaper) yakkers, Denver’s KNUS is heading in the opposite direction, filling its lineup with local flotsam and jetsam tossed from competing stations. KNUS’ latest addition is Denver Attorney Dan Caplis, a social conservative with decades of experience on the […]
Businessweek's Joshua Green reports today: When Congress reconvenes on Jan. 6, one of the first issues it will take up is whether to renew an emergency federal unemployment program that expired on Dec. 28, cutting off 1.3 million jobless workers. Enacted in 2008 at the start of the recession, it provided up to 47 weeks […]
Last September, the Front Range urban region of Colorado was hit by the worst flooding in a generation. A freak storm parked over the mountains immediately west of Denver and Boulder, dropping over a year's worth of precipitation in a matter of days. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed, whole towns were cut off […]
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