(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%
AP reporting via the Aurora Sentinel, President Joe Biden has made good on his promise to select the nation’s first African-American woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice to succeed retiring liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, and to do so by the end of this month: President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji […]
Marianne Goodland at the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog has seen plenty of unusual situations inside the Colorado Capitol, including at least a couple that involved the building’s too-few and always in demand bathrooms. But a discovery last night in a Capitol bathroom by a House staffer of an envelope full of checks made out […]
(Plotting a coup on CU payroll — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Former Trump lawyer John Eastman was on the payroll of the University of Colorado (CU) when he formally became a Trump lawyer and then wrote a widely discredited memo on how Trump could subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. Politico revealed this […]
Westword’s Michael Roberts takes a look today at another case of a Colorado business owner citing their “deeply held religious beliefs” as the reason they cannot perform services they otherwise offer to the general public for LGBTQ+ people headed for arguments this fall before the U.S. Supreme Court. This comes in the wake of another […]
Last evening (morning in Ukraine), Russia launched a full invasion of the former Soviet territory. While some Republicans said the right things about supporting Ukraine and pushing back against aggression from Russian President Vladimir Putin, most had…different ideas. First, here’s former President Donald Trump saying that Russia invaded Ukraine because of the 2020 Presidential election […]
With Colorado Republicans single-mindedly focused on turning the complex and nationwide issue of rising crime into a partisan political weapon ahead of a midterm election in which they are desperately hoping to recover lost ground, the daily crime-beat headlines have become a continuous source of cheap messaging fodder to fuel their narrative. In the last […]
Back in August 2020, the Republican Party infamously announced that it had NO AGENDA heading into the November election. The national “party platform” was literally just, “Do whatever Donald Trump wants.” Here in Colorado, the GOP platform was slightly less vapid, though no less destructive: It was all about continuing the red meat, right-wing lunacy that placated […]
Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reports from a candidate forum held Sunday in Fort Collins by a group calling itself the “Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance”–not quite as overtly threatening as “United American Defense Force,” but still all man–featuring a very interesting cross-section of Republican candidates for elected office in 2022 up and down the ballot: “Republicans […]
UPDATE: State Republican Party Chairperson Kristi Burton Brown proves our point with this retort against former GOP legislator Cole Wist: —– House Minority Leader Hugh McKean is in his second year as the head of the Republican House caucus. He is running for re-election this year for a fourth and final term in HD-51, but things […]
Keeping up to date with the latest in the ongoing battle between Secretary of State Jena Griswold and a handful of Colorado county clerks–now down to two that we know of–who are suspected of tampering with election computer systems as part of a half-baked and failed attempt to uncover evidence to support Donald Trump’s ongoing […]
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This week in episode 98 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii marvel at something we predicted all the way back in September 2021: Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is running for Secretary of State!!! We also discuss doxxing in Douglas County; Hiedi Heidi Ganahl using the NextDoor […]
The United States of America has had some good Presidents, some very, very bad Presidents, and a few Presidents whose only job was to land the plane safely after a long national nightmare (here’s looking at you, Gerald Ford). But if if weren’t for a few truly great leaders in our country’s history, America’s experiment […]
“I am a gaffe machine. But by God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth.” –Joe Biden
FRIDAY UPDATE: We suppose it’s fair to say that Joshua Jered Rodriguez’s message was received. As The Arvada Press reports, Rodriguez is in the hands of law enforcement and is now working on his campaign narrative from the Jefferson County Jail. —– The Arvada Press reports on an unusual candidacy for Congress in the new […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl has been traveling around Colorado speaking to small GOP audiences in advance of the April State Assembly. Ganahl doesn’t even pretend that she isn’t pandering to the right wing; Two-Sidey Heidi just tells every crowd what she thinks they want to hear, regardless of how much it exposes her […]
Former GOP Sen. Larry Crowder of rural southern Colorado was a mixed bag of culture-warrior gaffes and foibles during his two terms in the Colorado Senate, punctuated by occasional moments of clarity like his vote to expand Medicaid coverage in 2013–the only Republican in the Colorado Senate to do so while the rest bemoaned the […]
We’ve said many times in this space that the Republican bench in Colorado is basically a phone booth. For years, the Colorado GOP has had a hell of a time trying to find decent candidates for any number of important races. Things are as bad for Republicans in 2022 as they have ever been; the […]
UPDATE: In a related story, watch this clip from a recent DougCo School Board meeting in which School Board member Kaylee Winegar gets absolutely demolished by a parent during an open discussion period: Exactly. This was epic. pic.twitter.com/CgSmoKDCXl — Niusulumomof8 (@niusulumomof8) February 17, 2022 —– Carol McKinley of the Colorado Springs Gazette reports on the […]
As the Aspen Times’ Rick Carroll reports, another Democrat is jumping into the race to run against incumbent freshman GOP trainwreck’s trainwreck Rep. Lauren Boebert, and although all eyes right now are on the June 28th Republican primary between Boebert and state Sen. Don “Not a Complete Asshole” Coram, ex-Aspen City Councilman Adam Frisch is […]
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“Peters has proven herself, with both her actions and her support of extremists, to be wholly unworthy of public trust and public office.” — The Denver Post (2/15/22)[/mantra-pullquote] Embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters announced on Monday that she is running for the Republican nomination for Secretary of […]
State Representative Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) is a busy guy. In his day job as a state lawmaker, Hanks spends a lot of time trying to get legislation to be discussed (with no hope of passage) that would fix all of the 2020 election fraud that never happened in Colorado. Hanks is a true believer […]
This week in episode 97 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii discuss a new entrant into the hall of shame for one of Colorado’s most famous political “kickers”; we check in on Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert; and we wonder aloud if Republicans have already forgotten the lesson they should […]
Seriously wealthy property developer turned Colorado GOP U.S. Senate candidate Gino Campana is running, as wrote about recently with the hire by Campana of former high-profile Donald Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, with a single-minded strategy to appeal to the pro-Trump majority within the Republican Party faithful expected to participate in the caucus process. Today, […]
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