(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 Denver Nuggets are a perfect 4-0 to start the regular season. 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. TOP OF […]
Over the past couple of days President Trump has been suggesting that Congress could vote on a middle class tax cut before the November 6 election. Speaking at a rally for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday, Trump said, “We’re going to be putting in a 10 percent tax cut for middle-income families.” There are a […]
Today the Denver Post published the results of background checks run by that paper on most (but not all) Colorado legislative candidates running in 2018. As Jackson Barnett reports, some candidates chose not to cooperate: Some candidates declined to provide their full birthdates, which are required to run checks through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: […]
Six years ago Colorado voters shook the foundations of Prohibition with passage of Amendment 64. As such, we became the first unit of government in the world to end the reign of ‘Reefer Madness‘. What began with the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, then enshrined in the Controlled Substance Act by Richard Nixon in 1970, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Concerned Citizens for Colorado, a dark-money group that purchased Facebook data from the disgraced firm Cambridge Analytica and used the personal information to help win key Colorado senate seats in 2014, is pumping a half million dollars into the Colorado Republican Party again this year. In 2014, Concerned Citizens used the […]
Republican State Treasurer Walker Stapleton probably won’t be Colorado’e next Governor, but when it comes to unintentional self parody, he’s locked down the top position in the state. Stapleton and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis participated in a candidate forum hosted by the Arvada Chamber of Commerce on Monday, in which Stapleton said this: “We […]
In the last 48 hours there’s been a considerable amount of concern raised by a report from freelance investigative journalist Greg Palast, who has spent many years gumshoeing election processes throughout the 50 states–sometimes finding significant examples of vote suppression on the part of Republican Secretaries of State, Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 being two prominent […]
(Oops – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Candidates Christine Jensen of Arvada and Rep. Beth Martinez-Humenik (R-Thornton) have a lot in common. Both are Republican women running for Colorado state senate seats in highly competitive suburban swing districts. Both answered the same five questions from their local community newspapers and both gave nearly identical answers to […]
There are just two weeks left until the 2020 election cycle begins. 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. TOP OF […]
We’ve discussed a couple of times this year a novel effort headed by a former Republican operative with ties to a variety of conservative rebranding campaigns, Nick Troiano, pushing a small slate of purportedly unaffiliated state legislative candidates in Colorado. Despite their outraged insistence otherwise, the campaign appears squarely focused on derailing Democrats in swing […]
The Denver Post reports today on new polling results from the University of Colorado’s American Politics Research Lab: In the first public poll results released on these issues, 58 percent of respondents said they would vote yes for Amendment 73, which would raise taxes on individuals making more than $150,000 a year and corporations. Because […]
Voter Service and Polling Centers are now open in each of Colorado’s 64 counties for those of you who prefer to pull the levers of Democracy in person. Go to GoVoteColorado.com for more information on voting centers, ballot drop-off locations, or for resources to check on the status of your mail ballot. We always recommend […]
We’ve been closely following the battle in the Colorado governor’s race over a last-minute smear campaign underway against the Democratic nominee, Jared Polis, stemming from a 1999 police report in which Polis was judged to be the victim in a criminal theft case. In the bogus retelling of this story, Polis is transformed from victim […]
That’s former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appearing today at the University of Denver with Colorado’s own Gov. John Hickenlooper to support Amendments Y and Z, the bipartisan redistricting/reapportionment initiatives expected to pass easily in November. There’s a “trusty sidekick” thing happening here that we just couldn’t let fall into the memory hole.
CNN reports on the stunning admission late yesterday from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that officials directly subordinate to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were indeed responsible for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul: After 18 days in which Saudi Arabia adamantly denied that any harm had […]
UPDATE: Following an intervention by our longtime friend Ali Hasan, Brian Watson removes The Myth of Islamic Tolerance from his recommended reading list. —– In addition to the campaign website for Republican Treasurer candidate Brian Watson, today a reader forwarded us a link to a page on Watson’s personal website–because, you know, guys of Watson’s aspiring […]
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is pulling out of CO-6 as prospects for Rep. Mike Coffman’s re-election grow increasingly sour. As Jesse Paul reports for The Colorado Sun: The powerful National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s arm in charge of ensuring GOP members are elected and re-elected to Congress, will stop its spending on […]
Oh, so we’ve reached THAT stage of desperation. I see. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/89TclUfJ65 — Logan M. Davis (@LoganMDavis) October 19, 2018 Making the rounds on social media today is the ad you can see above from a group calling itself the Save Our State PAC, warning that electing Jared Polis governor will “bring Sharia to our […]
According to our desk calendar, the Revolutionary War ended on this day in 1781. 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. […]
FOX 31’s Joe St. George: Vice President Mike Pence made a brief stop in Colorado to speak at a luncheon hosted by a conservative super PAC. The vice president landed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora just after 11 a.m., greeting and taking pictures with a few dozen service members who gathered for the […]
A story out today from investigative journalist David Sirota via Westword exposes an audacious new ad campaign from oil and gas producer Noble Energy, directly advocating a no vote on Proposition 112 from their corporate ad budget–and refusing to disclose their spending the way anyone else running such an ad would have to: In a […]
To know Brian Watson is to be wary of Brian Watson. Watson is the Republican candidate running against Democrat Dave Young to become Colorado’s next State Treasurer. The battle for Treasurer is a top-of-the-ballot race that generates bottom-of-the-ballot interest, in part because it is an antiquated role that probably shouldn’t still be an elected position. […]
Under three weeks until what’s shaping up to be an historically bad night for Colorado Republicans, and the Colorado Sun’s John Frank and Jesse Paul see a novel argument emerging from Republican Colorado Attorney General candidate George Brauchler–and by novel, we mean desperate as hell: The dimming Republican prospects at the top of the ticket in […]
The New York Times wrapped up a very long “live” poll in CO-6, and the final numbers aren’t much better for Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) than they were at first glance a few weeks back. The Crowmentum continues! Colorado 6, final: Crow 47 (D), Coffman 38 (R, inc) We had Crow+10 in September. Widely considered […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: A second Denver television station has now pulled the ad off the air. —– Ernest Luning has the news from the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman: Denver TV station KMGH-Denver7 decided Wednesday to pull a pro-Republican independent expenditure committee’s TV ad attacking gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis. The move came after Colorado Democrats’ attorneys […]
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