(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%
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, […]
Happy Day After Valentine’s Day. 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 find us on Facebook and Twitter. CORONAVIRUS INFO… *Colorado […]
As readers may know, among the many eras in Colorado politics set to end with the 2022 elections is that of the Neville Clan holding office–and at one time vying for total control–of the Colorado Republican Party, leading figures in a cabal allied with Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and a sprinkling of fringe religious groups […]
Here are a couple of quick ICYMI updates on races for State Senate in Colorado… As Alex Burness reported for The Denver Post last week, former State Rep. Joe Salazar is suspending his campaign for State Senate in SD-24 (North Denver, roughly). This likely ends a potentially-interesting Democratic Primary, since current State Rep. Kyle Mullica […]
As Kyle Clark reports for 9News, — confirmed by Charles Ashby of The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel — the moment you knew was eventually coming has arrived: Embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters has announced that she will seek the Republican nomination for Secretary of State (SOS) instead of running for re-election in […]
Chase Woodruff of Colorado Newsline reports this morning on an “emergency meeting” that took place last night in Castle Rock, organized by the militia-fortified conservative activist group FEC United. Last night’s meeting featured a number of Colorado Republicans who, like a majority of the Republican rank-and-file, believe as an article of faith–faith being necessary due […]
Republicans in the new seventh congressional district seem to be pinning their 2022 hopes on an economist named Tim Reichert as the likely challenger to State Sen. Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) in the battle for the seat being vacated by the retiring Rep. Ed Perlmutter. There are other Republicans in the CO-07 field, including Laurel Imer […]
UPDATE: Mesa County DA Dan Rubenstein has reportedly added a second misdemeanor obstruction charge. —– Denver7’s Robert Garrison reports on the misdemeanor obstruction of a peace officer charge filed against Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters yesterday, leading to her arrest and booking today (posterity mug shot right) in the first of what could well be […]
In another edition of our long running feature “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” we take you to Hudson, Ohio, where Republican Mayor Craig Shubert is warning of a slippery slope of muddled logic that ultimately leads to one place: Prostitution! During a Hudson City Council meeting on Tuesday, a discussion took place around allowing […]
With Colorado Republicans pulling out all of the logically consistent stops in order to blame local Democrats for crime rates on the rise in our state along with most of the country in the last three years, let’s take a brief trip back to the last time the issue of crime became a political sparring […]
One of the principal issues that Republicans in Colorado are running on for the 2022 midterms is fear over increasing crime rates. An undeniable increase in violent crimes has been accompanied by a lesser but still measurable increase in property crimes in the last several years across the nation, though still not at historic levels […]
The Colorado Times Recorder reports on a story that should surprise absolutely no-one who is at all familiar with Weld County Commissioner and Congressional candidate Lori Saine: On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Jan. 17, Saine – who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives – posted a meme on Facebook featuring a photo […]
In a press release yesterday, freshman GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert spoke out with her usual eloquence and tastefulness (if you’re new here, this is sarcasm) on a subject that’s apparently been vexing her greatly–to say nothing about her husband’s employers in the oil and gas industry flooding the family bank accounts with questionable amounts of […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Looks like there are more charges coming from this incident after all, as the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports today: The brief detention was the result of a search warrant Grand Junction Police officers were executing to get [Peters’] iPad, which she allegedly used to videotape a recent motions hearing for Deputy […]
(Let the “Big Lie” flow through you — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl’s posture of not commenting on the legitimacy of the last presidential election softened a bit last week when she stated her concern about “rules being weakened before the election in some states.“ Ganahl, a Republican, did not return […]
In the year that has passed since the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 in an attempt to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, many if not most of the Republicans who condemned the events of that day–and more importantly, assigned the blame for the violence with ex-President Donald Trump […]
In the last week, a plot by the newly-elected conservative majority on the Douglas County Board of Education to oust the district’s popular superintendent Corey Wise and roll back the district’s equity policies to something more satisfactory to the far right exploded in controversy after conservative board members allegedly violated open meetings laws in the […]
Thursday is the NBA trade deadline; cross your fingers that you don’t end up in Cleveland. 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 […]
As the Colorado Sun’s Sandra Fish reports, a convenient short-lived primary challenge from a candidate no one has ever heard of has provided Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl the chance to undo an odd and inexplicable error she made early in her campaign (among so very, very many), accepting campaign spending limits prescribed by Amendment […]
The Republican candidates for U.S. Senate got together last Thursday night in Weld County for another Election Year forum about issues and conspiracy theories. We couldn’t resist following along with another Debate Diary (click here for last month’s Debate Diary from the Senate forum in Lakewood). Eight candidates sat shoulder-to-shoulder behind a long table at […]
CNN reports on the resolution passed by the Republican National Committee this weekend to formally censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and officially give notice that they will no longer receive support from the national party going forward–the latter sanction only mattering to Rep. Cheney, since Kinzinger has already announced he will not run […]
(“Both Ways Brown” — Promoted by Colorado Pols) “I thought it was a great, great meeting,” said Kristi Burton Brown, the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party, when asked Saturday about a GOP meeting in Salt Lake City where national Republican leaders voted that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was “legitimate political discourse.” […]
Following up on the recent reports of previously-unknown Republican candidates writing big checks to goose their profile in the crowded GOP U.S. Senate primary to challenge Sen. Michael Bennet in November, Jesse Paul at the Colorado Sun’s Unaffiliated newsletter compares the estimated net worths of Gino Campana and Joe O’Dea based on the wide range they’re […]
The Get More Smarter Podcast is getting some attention for our most recent episode, featuring an interview with House Speaker Alec Garnett. The Colorado Sun picked up on the interview with Garnett for its “Unaffiliated” newsletter: Garnett said he “probably went in a little bit too hot” when he passionately spoke in opposition to controversial […]
As Huffpo’s Ed Mazza reports, the internets had a field day with this one: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) received a free lesson in U.S. history after posting her latest tweet about the Constitution. “The Constitution is not evolving,” she wrote on Twitter. [Pols emphasis] “To say that spits in the face of every single one of […]
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