(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%
Responding to the news yesterday that one of the leading figures among the far-right freshman Republican congressional waste products of the MAGA movement, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has been permanently suspended from Twitter for “repeated violations” of the site’s COVID-19 misinformation policy, Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert of Colorado issued what sure looks to us like […]
In early August, word first broke of a breach of election systems security in Mesa County involving Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, after Secretary of State Jena Griswold became aware of passwords and eventually the complete image of the operating system installed on the county’s Dominion Voting Systems election hardware had been leaked to election […]
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“Never in the country’s modern history has a a major party sought to turn the administration of elections into an explicitly partisan act.” — The Associated Press (12/30/21)[/mantra-pullquote] As Nick Riccardi writes in a sobering story for The Associated Press, challenges to the 2020 election could be just a preview of a […]
A side narrative to the last fifteen years of history in Colorado politics, alongside the general trend of Democrats with the help of demographic evolution ascending to political dominance, has been a current of dissent among harder-left Democrats that the “Colorado Model” did not meet their ideological standards. A pro-life Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter elected […]
It has been three months since Republican Hiedi Heidi Ganahl officially launched her campaign for governor. Nobody would argue with a straight face that things are going well for the last remaining statewide elected official in Colorado (Ganahl is currently a CU Regent). In fact, Ganahl appears to be running the worst gubernatorial campaign in […]
Despite the hope as 2021 began that the world would finally see relief from the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re ending the year with a new variant of the virus tearing at record speeds through the population. As of today almost 820,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, a number that includes just over 10,000 dead here in […]
The office of Governor was an open seat in 2018, which prompted several candidates on both sides of the political aisle to take a shot at the top job in the state. After a fairly anticlimactic Primary Election — on both sides — Democrat Jared Polis went on to defeat listless Republican Walker Stapleton by […]
Over the past decade, off-year elections in Colorado have been a painful experience for Colorado Democrats, otherwise victorious through most of the last 20 years in general elections that get the most attention. In 2011, Proposition 103 (to modestly increase the state’s income and sales taxes) was shot down at the off-year polls by over […]
Last April, as the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reported, Colorado was awarded as a result of population growth in the past decade an eighth seat in Congress–Western census winners along with Oregon, Montana, and Texas, while California, Illinois, and New York each gave up seats: Colorado’s population jumped to 5,773,714, last year from 5,029,196 in […]
On this fine day in 2004, the greatest website in the history of the Internet was born (that’s us, BTW). Colorado Pols is 17 years old today. One more year and we can vote!
Former Aurora School Board Member, state legislative candidate, and fantastical liar Eric Nelson is attempting to make a political comeback in Colorado. Nelson has filed as a candidate for State House 42 (Aurora) — the same House District seat he sought in 2016 before everyone figured out that he was a con artist who was […]
The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish have a great story out today documenting the centralized “dark money” funding source known as Unite for Colorado powering a wide variety of conservative issue campaigns, “independent” expenditures, and political “accountability” operations against Democratic lawmakers–millions of dollars in apparently well-coordinated and targeted funds to help Republicans recover […]
This week in episode 95 of the Get More Smarter Podcast — the final episode of 2021 — hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii dedicate an entire show to a bunch of “quick hits.” In other words, we talk about a lot of different subjects but spend a shorter amount of time on each topic. […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland has a good story today catching up on the ongoing controversy in Mesa County, as a criminal investigation into a breach of election system security facilitated by Clerk Tina Peters continues in uneasy silence following FBI and local law enforcement having executed search warrants on Peters and several alleged co-conspirators […]
Gino Campana is a Ft. Collins businessman seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate for the right to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Denver) next November. We haven’t mentioned Campana much in this space because, frankly, there isn’t a whole lot to discuss. Campana launched his campaign in October with an online video that […]
(Aaand another one — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Another Republican congressional candidate in Colorado is refusing to say whether last year’s presidential election was legitimate. Thornton Mayor Jan Kulmann, who’s running for Colorado’s new congressional seat, refused to answer the question last week, “Was the 2020 election stolen?” In an extraordinary exchange with Republican radio […]
Via reporter Heidi Beedle of the Colorado Springs Independent, we find Joe Oltmann of FEC United, Colorado’s leading promulgator of election conspiracy nuttery and armed militia-backed infiltration of the Colorado Republican Party, in a pickle that you should just read so we don’t have to explain it: There’s a lot here, including what seems to be […]
It’s (still not) beginning to look like a white Christmas. 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 […]
Over 95% of the tumultuous year that was 2021 is in the books now, and over the next couple of weeks (as long as the news cycle permits) we’ll be recapping many of the events and prevalent trends that defined Colorado politics this past year. Here in Colorado as with most of the country the […]
There may be no political office in Colorado that better illustrates our state’s changes over the last decade than that of Attorney General. For 21 of the last 30 years, a Republican served as the chief law enforcement officer in Colorado. In 2022, the GOP may all but concede the office to a Democrat. But […]
Welcome to the halfway point between one of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s birthdays. 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 […]
Fox News gleefully reports, just hours after the U.S. House passed legislation to combat “Islamophobia” drafted in response to Colorado freshman controversy fountain Rep. Lauren Boebert’s repeated false stories and race-baiting slurs against fellow Rep. Ilhan Omar, Boebert’s great friend and mentor stepped in once again to make sure no fellow Republican even thinks about […]
Colorado Newsline reporter Chase Woodruff relays the new message from U.S. Senate Democrats, who are said to be “shelving” consideration of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill in order to switch focus to quickly passing voting rights legislation: Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado on Wednesday announced his support for “changes” to the […]
If you have a minute to spare today, you might want to wish Congressperson Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert a happy birthday. Or…maybe you should wait until Sunday. One of the weirder enduring mysteries about the freshman Republican Congressperson from CO-03 is that she and her office refuse to confirm the actual date of her birth. According […]
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