(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%
As the Denver Post’s political team reports, Colorado Democrats and Republicans held their precinct-level caucuses yesterday afternoon, which traditionally mark the start of full-scale organizing for primary candidates well in advance of the parties’ primary elections–formerly in August, more recently moved up to June to give nominees time to make an unfettered case. And yesterday […]
SUNDAY UPDATE: The mother of Jessica Ghawi, one of the 12 victims of the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, responds with outrage we are in no position to question: My precious daughter was slaughter with the same type of gun in YOUR state. Shot 6 times with those .223s ripping & tearing through her tiny body. […]
Happy “National Day of Unplugging.” If you’re reading this, you’re probably doing it wrong. It’s time to 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or […]
State Senate District 8 (Carbondale-ish) is one of the top pickup opportunities for Democrats in 2020, and now they have a strong candidate running to unseat Republican Sen. Bob Rankin. Today Karl Hanlon announced that he will run in SD-8. From a press release: Hanlon, a rancher, water and municipal attorney, and family man from Carbondale […]
Yesterday, Sen. Kerry Donovan and Rep. Dylan Roberts and the Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly rolled out a major new piece of legislation to create a competitive option for individual market health insurance plans, with specific regulatory requirements to save consumers significant amounts of money without compromising care–The Denver Post’s Saja Hindi reports: […]
UPDATE: Colorado GOP kingpin Larry Mizel invites you, provided you have the coin: —– As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman: President Donald Trump will return to Colorado to attend a high-dollar fundraiser in the Denver area for U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on March 13, Colorado Politics has learned. […]
Yeah, that’s right: You get an afternoon version of Get More Smarter today. 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: By a vote of 96-1, the U.S. Senate approved the $8.3 billion coronavirus response legislation that passed out of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was the lone dissenting voice in the Senate; he joins Colorado Rep. Ken Buck and Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs as literally the only Members of […]
(Cue laugh track – Promoted by Colorado Pols) When Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner first ran for Senate in 2014, the phrase “climate change,” “global warming,” or other words describing the destruction of the Earth’s atmosphere, didn’t appear on his campaign website, except in a linked news release slamming his opponent for supporting Obama’s “Overreach on […]
UPDATE #2: We completely agree: This got me. I like when candidates and elected officials show emotion. It’s not a sign of weakness and shouldn’t be viewed as such. https://t.co/f33xPetI6o — Justin Barasky (@JustinBarasky) March 5, 2020 —– UPDATE: “Not today,” replies @ewarren when asked if she’ll endorse today either @BernieSanders or @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/UBvTO1FgzG […]
The Hill: A coalition of 19 states is suing the Trump administration over its new diversion of $3.8 billion in defense funds to the border wall, arguing that the move is unconstitutional and ignores possible environmental impacts… This month, the Pentagon informed Congress that it would transfer an additional $3.8 billion to be used for […]
As The Washington Post reports: Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York who had hoped to self-fund his way to the Democratic presidential nomination but was spurned by voters in Tuesday’s balloting, has dropped out of the race. Bloomberg endorsed Joe Biden, saying the former vice president had the best chance to win […]
UPDATE 7:04 PM: Sen. Bernie Sanders will win in Colorado, projects AP immediately after polls close. —– UPDATE 7:00PM: Polls close in Colorado as a battle shapes up in Texas between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. —– UPDATE 6:15PM: Joe Biden takes three Southern states: Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama. —– Watch this space for […]
As CNN reports, Maine Sen. Susan Collins won’t say if she voted today for Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for President, which is as good as saying that she did not: GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who is up for reelection in Maine, would not say on Tuesday if she voted for President Trump in her […]
As far as anyone can tell, Senator. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) is indeed running for re-election in 2020. In Colorado. Gardner’s campaign strategy is just starting to get rolling — we’ve seen hints of it in his rare public comments — and it looks like the narrative is going to be fairly simple: Cory Gardner believes […]
We’re one week away from going back to Regular Tuesday. It’s time to 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter […]
It’s only been a couple of days since our last poll in this space, but the field of candidates seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination has shrunk considerably. We’re basically down to four plausible candidates at this point: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren. As with all of our totally non-scientific polls here […]
UPDATE: Pete Buttigieg formally endorses Biden, as will former Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. —– As the Denver Post’s Jon Murray reports, what was once a trickle of support for former Vice President Joe Biden, who hasn’t been seen much in Colorado this campaign season, is rapidly building into an old-fashioned canyon gullywasher: Former U.S. Sen. […]
NBC News reports on good and bad news for Colorado’s #1 enemy of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, Sen. Cory Gardner–the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this fall in a case brought by Texas to declare the entire landmark 2010 health reform bill unconstitutional, after legislation passed by the GOP-controlled Congress in […]
March didn’t really come “in” like a lion or a lamb — more like a mildly-irritating raccoon. It’s time to 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/visual learner, check out The Get More […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) A Colorado Springs Republican lawmaker is standing behind his radio comment that his House Democratic colleagues are “anti-Christian,” saying they attack “family values.” State Rep. Dave Williams (R-CO Springs) made the comment on conservative KNUS radio Feb. 15 during a discussion about a legislative hearing. Williams, who’s the El Paso County […]
As The Washington Post reported Sunday: Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who saw a meteoric rise from virtual unknown to top-tier contender and became the first openly gay candidate to make a high-profile presidential run, ended his campaign Sunday as he confronted the reality that his prospects of victory had […]
The results of yesterday’s Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina have, if fans of former Vice President Joe Biden are to be believed, mashed the reset button on the tumultuous 2020 elections just as conventional wisdom was settling into the presumption that Sen. Bernie Sanders was an unstoppable force. But as Politico reports, the depth […]
A short while ago, Senate Bill 20-163, a bill to improve Colorado’s bottom-of-the-nation childhood vaccination rate, won final passage in the Colorado Senate. For those who haven’t been paying attention to the noise over what should be an uncontroversial bill, SB-163 is a compromise measure sponsored by Democratic Rep. Kyle Mullica and Sen. Julie Gonzales […]
The Trump administration has not put the United States in a strong position to respond positively to the coronavirus outbreak. In recent years, Trump has disbanded groups formed to handle disease outbreaks such as Ebola, and has proposed cutting the parts of the budgets at NSC, DHS, and Health and Human Services designated for fighting […]
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