(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%
FOX 31: A Boulder-based dispensary chain is offering customers a stinky reason to get involved in the upcoming midterm elections. Five Terrapin Care Station stores across Colorado will offer a 10 percent discount on purchased products if customers show proof of voter registration. The company’s founder said that current “political leanings may be polarized but […]
Via American Bridge and KRDO-TV Colorado Springs, a moment from last night’s gubernatorial debate at Colorado State University-Pueblo in which Republican Walker Stapleton earned a sustained round of indignant booing from the audience: .@WalkerStapleton was booed at the #COGov debate last night for making a strange comment about his opponents children. We agree. Booooooooooo. 👎 […]
Nevermind Columbus [ducks]. Happy Leif Erikson Day! 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 MIND TODAY… ► United Nations Ambassador […]
Lars Gesing writes for the Colorado Independent: Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams’s recent acknowledgement that he spends up to 15 hours a week moonlighting as a private attorney has come under fire from his Democratic rival for office and from watchdogs who warn of potential conflicts of interest. The campaign flap renews a conversation […]
Mail ballots will be out in the wild starting next Monday. We’ve been asking our readers this question for weeks now: Who do you THINK is going to win the race for Governor? Remember, we’re looking for your best educated guess on the outcome of this race, not who you support or who you would […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton, ladies and gentlemen… This video clip is from a gubernatorial debate on Saturday in Grand Junction — hosted by Colorado Mesa University and Rocky Mountain PBS — the third debate in two days for Stapleton and Democratic candidate Jared Polis (Debate #4 takes place tonight in Pueblo). According to an email from […]
9NEWS’ Jacob Rodriguez reports: Colorado GOP Sen. Cory Gardner’s wife received a text message with a video attachment showing a beheading, a spokesperson for the senator confirmed to 9NEWS. Gardner’s spokesperson said someone also released the names and home addresses of Gardner’s family members. U.S. Capitol Police are aware and involved, according to Gardner’s office. […]
This is a campaign mail piece delivered late last week in incumbent GOP Sen. Tim Neville’s red-hot SD-16 race against Democratic challenger Tammy Story. We’re not completely sure which voters was targeted with this piece, sent by the “independent” Business Opportunity Fund tied to a network of well-heeled Republicans at the Colorado Concern–but we would assume it’s aimed […]
With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court taking place today, Deborah Ramirez of Boulder, who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct while the two were students at Yale University but whose allegations were swept under the rug during the FBI’s pro forma investigation, released this updated statement: Thirty-five years ago, the other students […]
On Sunday, the Aurora Sentinel made the first major newspaper endorsement in the 2018 race for Governor. The Sentinel’s endorsement of Democrat Jared Polis included a no-holds-barred takedown of Republican Walker Stapleton that began with the very first sentence: Making the case for Jared Polis to become Colorado’s next governor is just as easy as understanding why Walker Stapleton […]
NBC News reports, it appears to be over: Sen. Susan Collins, who had been the last undecided Republican vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, announced Friday she will vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s pick, virtually ensuring his confirmation when the full Senate holds its final vote on Saturday. In a speech on […]
UPDATE: Via the Denver Posts’s Anna Staver, the BS goes on: Just spoke with a woman who said she was in @SenCoryGardner’s office this morning trying to get a meeting and listened to his staff tell dozens of callers the senator was undecided on #KavanaughVote 🤷🏻♀️ #COPolitics — Anna Staver (@AnnaStaver) October 5, 2018 It […]
What better way to kick off the home stretch of the 2018 mid-term election than with a long time feature at Colorado Pols that we call our “Debate Diary.” We’re LIVE at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Denver for the first gubernatorial candidate debate forum of the General Election. Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker […]
AP reports via the Colorado Sun–after almost two years of uncertainty over what the Trump administration might do about legalized marijuana in Colorado and elsewhere, featuring disturbing threats against the industry from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and repeated reassurances by GOP Sen. Cory Gardner that such threats shouldn’t be taken seriously, real signs are emerging […]
Most of the time, when you hear a candidate say they’re the “candidate Democrats fear,” they’re implying that they would be stronger in the general election than their primary opponents–usually by being moderate on one or more issues that turn off Republican primary voters. We’ll give you a hint: one of these had a modicum […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Nathaniel Minor confirms what attorneys for Boulder domestic violence counselor Deborah Ramirez have been warning for days, that the FBI investigation into Ramirez’s allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was very far from thorough: An attorney for Deborah Ramirez, a Boulder woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of […]
The Colorado Rockies take on the Milwaukee Brewers today in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. First pitch is scheduled for 3:07 pm. 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 […]
As the Washington Post reports, President Trump spoke at a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday evening and openly mocked California professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: Trump, in a riff that has been dreaded by White House and Senate aides, attacked the story of Christine Blasey Ford at length […]
Westword’s Paige Yowell reports on a new twist in the race to replace disgraced GOP Rep. Tim Leonard in House District 25. Leonard, as readers know, made the decision to not run for re-election after an embarrassing failed attempt to cut his child support obligations because of his duties as a part-time legislator. The replacement […]
As Conrad Swanson reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, Republican State Treasurer candidate Brian Watson made an absolutely ridiculous promise: Watson says he WILL NOT quit his day job if elected to the Treasurer’s office: The Republican candidate for Colorado state treasurer seat promises not to accept a paycheck from the […]
UPDATE: Jonathan Chait at the Daily Intelligencer: Kavanaugh’s friends gathered testimony attempting to refute Ramirez’s allegations weeks before The New Yorker’s story was published. Some of the witnesses were contacted by people working on Kavanaugh’s behalf as early as July, according to text messages one witness has shared with the FBI. This demonstrates to a […]
Readers of Colorado Pols are probably familiar with Faye Griffin, the longtime elected official in Jefferson County who changes jobs like most people change socks. Griffin is running for re-election as Jeffco’s Clerk and Recorder — because she’ll never not run for some kind of office in Jefferson County government — and you can tell a […]
The Denver Post reports on the first publicly-available poll this fall in the race to become the next Governor of Colorado, which shows Democrat Jared Polis with a seven-point lead over Republican Walker Stapleton. This figure is pretty consistent with what we’ve heard about internal polls from both sides in recent weeks, but the breakdown of […]
(#MeToo madness? – Promoted by Colorado Pols) “And so if your listeners don’t like what’s going on and they don’t like the Democrat behavior at the U.S. Senate, then they shouldn’t like it at the state Senate, either. And if we don’t get out the vote — and if we don’t turn in our ballots […]
We wrote yesterday about a new recent poll in a week showing perennially embattled incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Coffman trailing by double digits to his Democratic opponent Jason Crow. As we’ve noted on a few occasions now, three polls in 2018 showing Coffman losing by a widening margin are in fact the first public polls […]
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