(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%
After three iterations of our bracket featuring the worst campaigns in Colorado this century, we’ve reached the “biggest loser” stage that we’re calling the “F***ed Four.” Click here to catch up. Continue below to read our breakdown of how we got to the “F***ed Four” and cast your vote for the finals!
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“I don’t mind saying that it was a disaster for the Center, for the University.” — CU Professor Robert Pasnau, a former director of the “conservative scholar” program that hired John Eastman.[/mantra-pullquote] Late last month, we learned that John Eastman — a former visiting conservative scholar at the University of Colorado and […]
The Colorado Sun’s Sandra Fish reports on the big news from the Democratic CD-8 congressional district assembly, where state Rep. Yadira Caraveo appears to have held off challenger Adams County commish Chaz Tedesco, avoiding a primary ahead of what’s set to be one of the nation’s hottest congressional races in the 2022 midterms: State […]
UPDATE: The entire delegation of state legislators and senators representing Aurora condemns the firing of police chief Vanessa Wilson and warns it signals regression on police accountability they had a hand in making law: “The firing of Aurora’s police chief will set back the critical and long overdue efforts currently underway in Aurora to ensure […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party confirmed this afternoon that Charles “Chaz” Tedesco failed to meet the 30% threshold for ballot access in CO-08. Yadira Caraveo is thus the Democratic nominee for CO-08 in 2022. —– Democrats held most of their congressional assemblies on Tuesday, which means we have a pretty good idea of which candidates […]
In case you haven’t been watching Fox News regularly or keeping up with the latest in Republican cancel culture, we need to lay out some context before we get to the meat of a story that includes Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert and Republican gubernatorial hopeful Hiedi Heidi Ganahl. Republicans want to cancel all things Disney […]
The much-balleyhooed rally at the Colorado State Capitol featuring “MyPillow” guy Mike Lindell along with some of Colorado’s leading Donald Trump dead-ender diehards like Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters and U.S. Senate candidate Ron Hanks kicked off at noon as promised today, but we regret to inform any hoping otherwise that revolution is unlikely […]
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reported on last weekend’s “triumph”–upstart CD-5 Republican challenger Rep. Dave Williams certainly wants it spun that way–in a district assembly that only pitted Williams against a couple of relative unknowns, but from which Williams emerged as the only grassroots-anointed candidate opposing incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn in […]
Once again as we counted upon him for back in the middle teens, former GOP Representative/semi-professional demonologist Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt sees the disturbing reality mere mortals can only guess at: There it was the whole time, like playing a Beatles record backwards! Dr. Chaps must have messed the memo that “wicked” now means cool.
When Colorado Republicans gather for the GOP’s annual big fundraising event on Friday, called “The 2022 Centennial Dinner,” they will have the opportunity to eat, drink, and enjoy the political musings of right-wing Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona. As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman: “Congressman Biggs is a […]
We’ve written before in this space that Republican Tim Reichert is probably the most boring candidate in Colorado in 2022. From what little we’ve seen and heard from Reichert on the campaign trail thus far, you’d have trouble making an argument otherwise. But that may all depend on how openly Reichert continues to talk about […]
This week in episode 103 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with Dusti Gurule, Executive Director of COLOR, about the passage of the Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA) which should be signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis today. But first, we talk through a bizarre candidate forum among […]
This morning, Republican candidate for governor Hiedi Heidi Ganahl proudly announced her latest endorsement, as reported (notably) by the far-right fake news outlet Just The News owned by nationally known conservative pseudo-journalist procovateur John Solomon–Republican House Minority Caucus Chair Elise Stefanik: “I’m endorsing the strongest candidate in the Colorado GOP primary and the woman who […]
A press release this morning from Democratic CD-3 candidate Adam Frisch ups the ante significantly in the race for the nomination to take on freshman GOP outrage-o-matic Rep. Lauren Boebert (or her GOP primary opponent Don Coram, in the event) in November, with a respectable organic fundraising haul backed up by a huge cash infusion […]
The Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain reported Friday and we wanted to be sure got a mention: People won’t be able to flaunt their firearms within 100 feet of a polling place under a law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday. House Bill 1086, dubbed the Vote Without Fear Act, makes it a misdemeanor to […]
Following two rounds of voting (amongst ourselves), we’re advancing the bracket of “Colorado’s WORST Campaigns” to the “Ugly Eight.” Click here to catch up, or continue below to read our breakdown of the “Ugly Eight”…
When Republican candidate for governor Heidi Ganahl’s first campaign manager Tiffany Coolidge resigned from the campaign barely a month after the campaign kicked off, it was an early and foreboding sign that things were not going well. Since then, Ganahl has continued to flounder while trying and failing to shake a determined primary challenge from […]
When we first were shown the well-produced but shockingly graphic campaign launch video for Alex Walker, a previously unknown Democratic candidate running in the CD-3 primary to challenge GOP freshman outrage epicenter Rep. Lauren Boebert, we’ll be perfectly honest: we thought it was fake. If you haven’t seen this video, and we still haven’t worked […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Ben Markus reported news this week that, if you believe Republican and energy industry propaganda that’s been flooding the airwaves since the passage of the landmark reform oil and gas regulation bill SB19-181 in Colorado three years ago, seems absolutely unthinkable: The number of active oil rigs in Colorado has nearly […]
We’re moving on to the Round of 16 in our bracket of the Worst Campaigns in Colorado (This Century). If you missed the first round, click here to get caught up. Click after the jump for the breakdown of the first round contests as we see them…
Running one of the most uninspiring and unforced error-laden campaigns for governor we’ve seen since at least the infamous Dan Maes train wreck of 2010, a key indicators of Republican “frontrunner” Heidi Ganahl’s weakness has been an inability to pull away from her primary opponents–who remain competitive and in the case of pugnacious upstart challenger […]
We wrote last week about the tremendous turnover in the ranks of elected officials in arch-conservative El Paso County, the result of a combination of upward ambition and what far right organizing group FEC United claims is a sweeping takeover of the slate from below. In southeast Colorado Springs’ House District 21, incumbent Republican Rep. […]
Republican candidates for Congress in the new CO-08 got together last Thursday for a debate/forum at KHNC radio in Johnstown, so we decided to listen in and peck out another of our world famous “Debate Diaries.” The forum was sponsored by a group called the Youth Federalist Initiative (YFI), which touts itself as some sort […]
So far the message from Republican Mayor of Thornton Jan Kulmann, running in the red-hot Republican CD-8 primary, has been long on “glittering generalities” and short on policy details other than the “drill baby drill” refrain Kulmann picked up working in the oil and gas industry. But yesterday, Kulmann finally took a stand on an […]
A fundraising email sent out by Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl yesterday is being rewarded with some attention, unfortunately not the good kind: As you can see, Ganahl is hoping to tap into the buzz over the hire of Super Bowl champion quarterback Russell Wilson by the Denver Broncos. Nothing about this empty appeal […]
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