(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%
With so much attention focused at the top of the ticket in this highest-stakes-ever presidential election year, the situation down the ballot is as always somewhat less clear than the emerging consensus in polling locking down the big races. It’s generally expected that voters in Colorado will be engaging in much less “ticket splitting” in […]
We’ve got two big interviews his week on The Get More Smarter Podcast. First, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with Laura Packard — health care activist, stage-four cancer survivor, and a powerful voice against Republicans who want to destroy the Affordable Cara Act. Next, we talk with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock to discuss […]
We’re 17 days out from the 2020 general election, and in Colorado certain inevitabilities are beginning to come into focus. Driven by unprecedented early turnout overwhelmingly led by Democratic and what’s assumed to be left-voting unaffiliated voters, an historic landslide election is shaping up for Colorado Democrats once again–with a strong possibility of further growing […]
UPDATE: You tell ’em, Team Gardner! This is totally not sad or anything. “It’s clear the Democrats also know John Hickenlooper has no chance of winning,” says Gardner campaign — Burgess Everett (@burgessev) October 16, 2020 —– Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner is not going to be re-elected next month. The writing was on the wall […]
Alright, Polsters, it’s time to crack open those crystal balls for the open congressional race in CO-03. Will Republican Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert be able to hold onto a seat that has been safely in Republican hands for the last decade? Or will Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush and her not-crazypants campaign pull out the victory? As […]
(Boebert would love for you to believe that she doesn’t support QAnon, but…facts — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Saying it wants to stop conspiracy theories used to justify harassment and violence, YouTube yesterday banned QAnon channels from its platform–two of which were followed by Colorado Congressional candidate Lauren Boebert. Before running for Congress, Boebert followed […]
At the end stage of any once-contested political campaign whose outcome has become clear as the season wore on, always a watched-for indicator of fateful decisions being made behind the scenes, is the curtailment of spending in races that national strategists in either party have written off as unwinnable. In races that stay close down […]
We’ve had plenty of opportunities this election season to revisit the moment four years ago when Sen. Cory Gardner showed intraparty courage not seen before or since: when he declared “I cannot and will not support someone who brags about degrading and assaulting women” and vowed to write-in Mike Pence for President of Donald Trump […]
Three new polls of likely voters in Colorado are telling the same story:
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It’s unprecedented: Sec of State Jena Griswold says 300,795 Coloradans have already voted! She says that’s 24 times the number that had cast ballots at this point in 2016. pic.twitter.com/OOInHYLPUC — Lance Hernandez (@lancehernandez7) October 15, 2020 Much as we have no frame of objective reference with which to compare John Hickenlooper’s game-ending $22 million […]
The final U.S. Senate debate of the 2020 election cycle — in Colorado, at least — took place on Tuesday night in Ft. Collins. The big headline of the night was Sen. Cory Gardner’s inexplicable decision to answer “YES” to the question, “Do you think President Trump is a moral and ethical man,” but Gardner […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) We have: 1) Trump refusing to say if he’ll leave office peacefully, 2) Trump on the ballot, and 3) candidates in some of Colorado’s most important state races not saying whether they support or oppose Trump. For Colorado, that’s an unacceptable situation, right? You’d think so, but when I call some […]
The U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat John Hickenlooper is out with a new Spanish-language television ad featuring former Senator and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. As you can see yourself, there’s something…different about Salazar: Apparently, Ken Salazar is rocking a mustache these days. Since we could all use a little lighthearted humor with the election cycle […]
Yesterday, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s editorial board published their research into Colorado’s two U.S. Senate candidates. The newspaper didn’t endorse a candidate in keeping with their policy this year, but nonetheless made clear they were most displeased by the choice of incumbent GOP Sen. Cory Gardner to decline to meet with them. That’s right, folks–the […]
Ballots in Colorado hit mailboxes last weekend, and while it’s too early to look at ballot return numbers in our state, anecdotally we’re hearing that plenty of people have already submitted their votes for 2020. Colorado has been voting mostly by mail since 2014, so early voting isn’t a new phenomenon. But around the country, […]
It was bound to happen. After nearly every editorial board in Colorado’s Third Congressional District from the Pueblo Chieftain to the Durango Herald endorsed the Democratic candidate in this marquee race, former Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, the one editorial board Republicans in Colorado can always count on–even when they make fools of themselves getting there–is the […]
If you are a voter in Colorado, you might already have a ballot in your mailbox; check GoVoteColorado.com for more information. 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 […]
The Denver Post’s Justin Wingerter relays the latest numbers from Morning Consult, showing Democratic candidates consolidating double-digit leads in the two ticket-topping races in Colorado: The latest Colorado polling from Morning Consult: Hickenlooper: 50% Gardner: 40% Biden: 54% Trump: 40% 837 likely voters, Oct. 2-11. Margin of error: 3.4%. #cosen #copolitics https://t.co/nG2yJL7hbf — Justin Wingerter […]
The candidates for U.S. Senate in Colorado — Republican Sen. Cory Gardner and Democrat John Hickenlooper — took part in the third of four planned debates on Friday evening. Sponsored by Denver7, The Denver Post, and Colorado Public Radio, this 90-minute debate was more substantial than the first debate between the two candidates but stuck […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In announcing his decision not to seek re-election as the leader of Colorado’s House Republicans, state Rep. Patrick Neville (R-Castle Rock) issued an unvarnished critique of the Colorado Republican Party. His primary target: Republican consultants, who, says Neville, make millions of dollars and attack Republicans while going soft on Democrats. RELATED: […]
As the Casper Star-Tribune reports via the Colorado Sun–remember that court ruling a couple of weeks ago that ordered acting Bureau of Land Management director William Perry Pendley to stop serving as acting director, after his nomination after over a year in that position to be confirmed by the Senate as the non-acting director was […]
It can be difficult to find common ground in today’s bitter political environment, but Republican Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert is proving to be a uniter in at least one sense: Colorado media outlets agree that she should absolutely not be elected to Congress. As the editorial board of The Durango Herald writes in its endorsement of […]
House Minority Leader Patrick Neville is taking his ball and going home. As The Colorado Times Recorder reports, Neville waited until Friday to announce that he would no longer attempt to lead the Republican caucus in the state legislature: #COLEG NEWS: @COHouseGOP‘s @PatrickForCO announces he won’t seeking another term as Minority Leader, preferring instead to “lead […]
Six years ago, the Denver Post editorial board delivered an endorsement of Cory Gardner to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Udall in the 2014 U.S. Senate race that outraged and demoralized Colorado Democrats ahead of an election they went on to lose by less than two percent of the vote. Although the relative value of […]
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