(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%
The dust has barely settled on yesterday’s bizarre stunt pulled by some two dozen House Republicans, in which members barged into a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in the basement of the Capitol and refused to leave–delaying the testimony of a Defense Department official in the continuing impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump for five […]
♦ Soliciting foreign governments to interfere in our elections: ♦ Comparing impeachment investigations to a “lynching“: ♦ Proposing to build a wall around Colorado: ♦ Taking money from Colorado military projects for border wall funding: ♦ Using the White House for personal financial gain: ♦ Pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, all but handing the region to […]
Politico: Senate Republicans are moving to denounce the House’s impeachment inquiry, with Sen. Lindsey Graham set to introduce a resolution on Thursday condemning the Democrat-led effort. The South Carolina Republican, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has attacked Democrats for their handling of the impeachment process. His resolution — backed by Senate Majority Leader […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: President Trump insists that his statement about “building a wall in Colorado” was just part of some hilarious joke that everybody else is too stupid to understand. Kids, it’s OK to say, “I misspoke. I made a mistake.” https://t.co/Y5pgaOgI4t — Marshall Zelinger (@Marshall9News) October 24, 2019 —– UPDATE: Governor Jared Polis, for the win: […]
And gentle readers, don’t take our word for it–The Hill: President Trump on Wednesday excoriated so-called Never Trump Republicans as “human scum” as he seeks to solidify Republican support of him amid an ongoing impeachment inquiry. He singled out his administration’s special envoy to Ukraine, William Taylor, who a day earlier sat for closed door […]
UPDATE #4: This publicity stunt has apparently been on the GOP calendar for at least a week, per CNN. —– UPDATE #3: You knew this was coming: 17 pizzas arrived to serve the GOP mbrs still holed up in the House Intel Cmte, essentially blocking the deposition of Pentagon official Laura Cooper. GOP CO Rep Lamborn […]
The Denver Nuggets open the 2019-20 NBA season tonight in Portland. Now, 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter […]
(Like we said, please tell your friends – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, 9News anchor Kyle Clark answered questions from viewers about his station’s story about Proposition CC, which would allow Colorado to keep already-collected taxes that otherwise would have been refunded under TABOR. 9News viewers wanted to know if it were true that, […]
The NBA is back, baby! Now, 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find […]
Since last Friday’s unforgettable moment at the Colorado Secretary of State’s office as two…well, rustic looking gentlemen arrived from Pueblo to turn in a total of four signatures in support of a recall against Senate President Leroy Garcia–just a few signatures short of the required minimum 13,506–there’s been a lot of chatter about what exactly […]
Try to follow the bouncing ball as best you can… Last Thursday the White House announced that the 2020 G7 Conference would be held at a Trump-owned and operated hotel and conference center called the Doral International Resort in Miami, Florida. Two days later, President Trump scrapped that idea amid mounting concerns from many Republicans about the obviously […]
Sen. Cory Gardner is very excited to let you know that he’s dead set against Proposition CC, so much that he wrote a column in the Phil Anschutz-owned Colorado Springs Gazette to tell us all about it: If you oppose more taxes & believe you should have control over your hard-earned dollars then join me […]
We’ll give you a hint: he’s not going to Disneyland: The Intercept’s Akela Lacy, H/T to Ernest Luning behind the Colorado Springs Gazette’s paywall: The National Republican Senatorial Committee is hosting a “Save the Senate” retreat from November 7 to 8 at the Washington, D.C., hotel. Listed on the invitation as attending are Donald Trump, […]
Here’s a mail piece that arrived over the weekend urging a “no” vote on Proposition CC, the statewide measure to allow the state to retain taxes collected in excess of the 1992 Taxpayer Bill of Rights’ (TABOR) arbitrary limit on revenue growth–a provision that has made it counterintuitively more difficult for the state to provide […]
UPDATE #4: Here’s the official word from the Colorado Secretary of State’s office: —– UPDATE #3: Via Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, the “Summer of Recalls” ends with even less of a whimper than first reported: Proponents for the petition to recall @Leroy_Garcia submitted signatures for review earlier today. The petition contained 4 signatures. To […]
(Look at that face – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Over the past week, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) has received an avalanche of bad press for his refusal to criticize President Trump over Ukraine. Wednesday afternoon, as Gardner chaired a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations’ East Asia subcommittee, the issue came up again, but this […]
As Justin Wingerter reports for the Denver Post: With a campaign kickoff video touting his family’s attainment of the American dream, the former CEO of Seattle Fish Co. announced Thursday that he is running for Congress in Colorado’s expansive 3rd District. “While working on loading docks and driving trucks, I learned that upward mobility for […]
Today is the deadline for Republicans to submit petition signatures to the Secretary of State’s office in their efforts to recall Senate President Leroy Garcia. Organizers of the Garcia recall have hinted that they may actually submit signatures today, rather than just letting the deadline pass with a sheepish admission of failure; given the 2019 […]
As AP via the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports, the U.S. Senate attempted yesterday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution to terminate the national emergency declared to allow Trump to divert Department of Defense funds from projects across the globe to construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border–a wall […]
A new poll of Colorado voters released today from Keating Research, OnSight Public Affairs, and Martin Campaigns (KOM) includes some pretty discouraging results for Colorado Republicans hoping to re-elect President Trump and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) in 2020. Rather than type a bunch of words about these new poll numbers–don’t worry, here’s the memo, toplines, […]
As The Hill reports, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has an idea for heading off the coming impeachment battle that could make things much worse for his Republican colleagues — including Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma): Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is facing pushback from some of his Republican colleagues over his plan to send a letter to […]
You have 75 days left to fulfill your 2019 New Year’s resolutions. Now, 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More […]
Former Colorado political reporter Eli Stokols, now of the Los Angeles Times, reports: President Trump intends to host next year’s G7 conference at his Doral International Resort in Miami in June, the White House confirmed Thursday, a controversial decision certain to raise conflict of interest questions given the financial benefit to Trump’s business… The idea […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: The Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports: “Typical front ranger way of looking at things … you come up with something that is fake with the idea of defeating West Slope water projects so we are forced to send more water to the Front Range,” wrote Soper, who later deleted his own comment. […]
KUNC’s Scott Franz reports: Colorado is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case that could have big implications for future presidential elections. Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Attorney General Phil Weiser are hoping the nation’s highest court will decide that presidential electors must follow state laws that require them to vote […]
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