(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%
Republicans may want to classify the events of Jan. 6, 2021 as “legitimate political discourse,” but the first jury trial of a suspect who took part in the insurrection doesn’t bode well for that silly GOP narrative. As POLITICO reports: Guy Reffitt, a Texas militia member who was at the head of an early wave […]
For as long as we’ve been writing about Colorado politics in this space, the Gazette newspapers serving Colorado Springs and now foraying into the Denver media market have had a stridently conservative editorial board, consistent with the family of news outlets owned by local gazillionaire and nationwide GOP funder Phil Anschutz that includes the right-wing Washington […]
You probably didn’t ask, but as readers know the 2022 iteration of the cottage industry pretending to be on a campaign to recall Gov. Jared Polis for cash and prizes, depending on your reckoning either the third or fourth such campaign since Polis’ election in 2018, is in the field once again–and hard up against […]
Although standards are not what they once were in the post-Trump era, one of the hallmarks of an undisciplined campaign is a reliance on overbroad statements about issues that tend to reveal more ignorance about the subject at hand than anything else. In recent weeks, gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl’s call to “end all mandates except […]
A new poll from NPR released this morning could mark a turning point for President Joe Biden, who took a hit in popularity in his first year in office while confronting the literal globe full of challenges left by his predecessor–after an unexpectedly powerful State of the Union address on Tuesday that thrilled beleaguered Democrats, […]
State Rep. Mark Baisley is the bizarro Leonardo da Vinci of the House Republican caucus: He knows very little about a wide array of topics, and he takes great pains to convince others that his idiocy is actually genius. Baisley is the same guy who suggested in January that Colorado wrap its voting machines in […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: As the Salina Journal reports, the “2022 Colorado Freedom Convoy” lost whatever heft it had departing Aurora yesterday afternoon on its first leg into Kansas: Although they arrived in Salina several hours later than expected, the truckers who left from Golden and Aurora, Colorado were met by both well-wishers and fellow truckers who […]
In case you missed it, Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted at President Biden during the State of the Union speech on Tuesday — at the exact moment that Biden was talking about his son, Beau, an Iraq War veteran who died in 2015. We waited a full news cycle to […]
Global Strategy Group in collaboration with local liberal advocacy organization ProgressNow Colorado released new polling this week in two parts with some encouraging news for Democrats in Colorado–especially if Democrats are able to capitalize on the increasingly salient issue of abortion, where Republicans in Colorado have a longstanding and well-documented weakness they can no longer […]
Republicans, including fledgling gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl, are trying really, really, really hard to cement a 2022 election narrative that crime is out of control in Colorado and it’s all because of Democrats. Vote for us, say Republicans, and your catalytic converters will be safe once again! This entire effort is getting rather silly. […]
As the Washington Post reported yesterday evening, a new court filing from the Select Committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and the plot by ex-President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election directly alleges that crimes were committed by Trump and attorney John Eastman, the alleged […]
UPDATE #2: Republican State Rep. Matt Soper (R-Delta) made it very clear today that he has no problem with Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert as the face of the Colorado Republican Party: In short, racism is cool so long as it upsets Democrats. Just…wow. —– UPDATE: Jimmy Kimmel nails it: pic.twitter.com/taMFKhA1FC — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) March […]
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This week in episode 99 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold about election security; running for re-election; and potentially facing off against Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters in November. Later in the show, we discuss the Republican fascination with […]
Former Republican Congressman, presidential candidate, and anti-immigrant human blowtorch Tom Tancredo has been on a tear of endorsements for Republican candidates running in hot primaries. A “Tanc Ticket” of conservative contenders headed by Gino Campana for U.S. Senate and CD-8 candidate Lori Saine is coming together for the June 28th primary, along with Tancredo’s surprising […]
Late last Friday afternoon while you were working out your plans for the upcoming lovely weekend, the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul wrote a story that despite its “Friday news dump” timing was a big topic of discussion among a small but influential group of people: Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens is the chairman of the […]
According to a story today from the political site of The Colorado Springs Gazette, Republicans in El Paso County — the state’s GOP stronghold county — are complaining again of favoritism ahead of tonight’s caucuses: Republican candidates and El Paso County GOP volunteers say the county party’s leadership has taken steps to favor four far-right […]
Colorado is one of only a handful of states that still participate in a caucus system for advancing candidates to the Primary Election ballot. The festivities get started this week, with some counties kicking things off tonight (Democrats in Denver and Jefferson counties, for example). Click here for information on caucuses from the Colorado Secretary […]
We’ve written a few times now about the curious case of former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, running as a Republican–but not that kind of Republican–to be Colorado’s next chief elections officer. Attempting to occupy a middle lane that doesn’t exist anymore after the 2020 presidential election created two mutually incompatible partisan realities, Anderson’s message […]
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Practically from the moment Gov. Jared Polis was elected in 2018, Republicans in the state have been trying to recall him. Immediately following the 2019 legislative session, the first Recall Polis campaign–actually several competing and mutually distrustful campaigns of which one eventually emerged to collect signatures–launched their 60-day window to collect the over 630,000 valid […]
In today’s edition of the Colorado Sun’s Unaffiliated newsletter, we got a preview of what might be the next stage of embattled Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ defense strategy–note the omission of the word “legal,” because, well, it’s not exactly: Embattled Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a Republican, has avoided four different process servers in […]
Religious-right conservatives who wield tremendous power in the Colorado Republican Party’s base coalition have pursued an agenda of totally banning abortion for many years, making the practice of abortion a felony outright as well as attempting to impose time limits and other medically superfluous restrictions, through both legislative means as well as statewide ballot initiatives. […]
We wrote last week about the ridiculous Republican retread ticket in Jefferson County, where proven political losers such as Don Rosier, Libby Szabo, and Vicki Pyne are taking another shot at public office in Jefferson County government. We often say that the Republican bench in Colorado is basically a phone booth, but even so…is this […]
On this day in 1991, the Warsaw Pact was officially declared to be kaput. 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 to […]
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