(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%
Newsmatters, a blog set up by and for employees of Digital First Media, the company that includes the Denver Post among a stable of newspapers owned by the private capital firm Alden Global Capital, relays disturbing news about the recent massive layoffs at the paper earlier this month after a long period of steady contraction. […]
Giddyup! 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… ► The story of the involvement of Colorado Republicans […]
UPDATE: KOAA News 5 reported last month about ongoing problems with the Fake Great Colorado Payback: After Joel Phillips’ mother passed away, he decided to log onto the state’s website and found his mother had more than $2,000 in unclaimed stock dividends. He said getting the State to pay money related with his case has […]
Colorado Republicans will hold their big annual event, called the “Centennial Dinner,” on April 13th in Denver. The keynote speaker for the evening is Dr. Thomas Krannawitter, a professor of political science at Colorado Christian University and a “senior fellow” at a right-wing think tank called “The Claremont Institute.” At first glance, Krannawitter might seem […]
President Trump today fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin in a move that was about as surprising as learning that another porn star was having an affair with the Commander in Chief. Blair Miller reports for Denver7: Rep. Mike Coffman got his long-awaited wish Wednesday when President Donald Trump announced he’d fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin amid a scandal […]
Huffington Post reports from Colorado Springs this past weekend: Former President George W. Bush was filmed dancing up a storm at nephew Pierce Bush’s wedding in Colorado Springs over the weekend. Bush, 71, can be seen bobbing his head as he boogies with the bride, Sarahbeth Melton, to the 1984 song, “You Spin Me Round […]
The UK’s Channel 4 News–not our local Channel 4, mind you–breaks more disturbing news for Coloradans about the use of improperly obtained social media usage data by Republicans to “microtarget” voters here in the 2014 elections. Despite the claims by embattled “psychoanalytics” firm Cambridge Analytica that all such data had been deleted, reporters from England […]
The Denver Post’s John Frank reports on a poll of the Democratic gubernatorial primary field from GOP-aligned Magellan Strategies that nonetheless describes what we think is an accurate picture of the race as of this writing: Democratic candidate Cary Kennedy is primed to make the party’s ballot for governor in Colorado just as a new […]
KUNC’s Bente Birkeland’s latest story on the crisis over widespread sexual harassment in the Colorado General Assembly takes square aim at a problem we identified months ago but up to now hasn’t received the attention it deserves: the double standard being applied to Republicans accused of harassment under Senate President Kevin Grantham. It’s a double […]
UPDATE: Mitt Romney’s Nephew issues a stern statement based on the Denver7 report: “If these allegations against Walker Stapleton’s circulators are even half true, they call into question the validity of thousands of petitions submitted by the Stapleton campaign. There is the right way to gather petitions, and there’s the illegal way. Ryan Luby’s piece shows […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Colorado Democratic Party chair Morgan Carroll takes Cynthia Coffman to task for “investigating the locksmith” instead of going after the real culprit–which just so happens to have helped Colorado Republicans win elections: “Imagine someone broke into your house, but instead of investigating the burglar, Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is only investigating the locksmith,” […]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen increasingly audacious attempts by Republicans in the Colorado Senate and their surrogates in the media to discredit proven-credible claims of sexual harassment against two Republican Senators: Sens. Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulphur Springs and Jack Tate of Centennial. After the original allegations of widespread sexual harassment in the […]
The Denver Post’s John Frank continues to run down the expanding story of the role of embattled foreign political strategy group Cambridge Analytica in Colorado’s 2014 elections–an election that for the first time in a decade witnessed something like real setbacks for Democrats who have dominated Colorado politics in recent years, with the state senate […]
As the Steamboat Pilot and Today reports, Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstration against gun violence in the northwest Colorado ski resort town of Steamboat Springs was marred by a particular form of vehicular belligerence that has been recently outlawed in the state of Colorado, and we’ve discussed in this space a few times–“rolling coal.” […]
As a footnote to last week’s passage of a 2,200-page spending bill, here’s Rep. Mike Coffman’s press release explaining his sort-of no vote on the legislation–keeping in mind that Coffman voted yes on the motion to proceed to debating the bill, unlike a number of fellow Republicans who lodged a protest vote against debating a […]
As the Denver Post reports, though plenty of our readers are still unwinding and resting their feet: Thousands of protesters filled Civic Center park Saturday afternoon for Denver’s rally and march against gun violence, one among hundreds taking place across America and around the world following last month’s Florida high school shooting that claimed 17 […]
As the Denver Post’s Jesse Paul reports–after Colorado Republicans decided to go ahead and own the legacy of expelled Rep. Steve Lebsock by claiming the right to appoint Lebsock’s replacement due to Lebsock switching parties literally one hour before his expulsion, there was, as there always is, an opportunity for them to make a smarter […]
Does Walker Stapleton have enough petition signatures to make the Republican Primary ballot for Governor? We mentioned this briefly on Tuesday in a story about the gubernatorial candidacy of Republican Barry Farah, but it’s worth revisiting as the days drag on without word from the Secretary of State’s (SOS) office. Stapleton started talking about participating in the […]
CBS4’s Brian Maass reports, the busiest watchdog in Colorado politics is at it again–and this time he’s gotten quite a ways down the proverbial field, with a Denver grand jury now investigating alleged official misconduct on the part of GOP Secretary of State Wayne Williams: CBS4 has learned a Denver grand jury is investigating criminal […]
After briefly threatening a veto — and randomly asking Congress to give him line item veto powers (and eliminating the filibuster) — President Trump today signed a massive $1.3 trillion spending deal that includes changes to background checks for gun purchases that Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) opposed to the very end. If that sentence seems complicated…well, it […]
The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Tom Roeder reports on the local reaction to the sudden announcement yesterday that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was being replaced in his position by the controversial and brashly political former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. At Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, those who knew McMaster from his time as commander of […]
From time to time on this site, we post interesting politically-themed photos and ask our readers to provide their own captions. And then we ran across this Tweet from Rep. Polly Lawrence, a Republican candidate for State Treasurer: That’s about all we have to say about this. Enjoy your Friday, everyone.
As the New York Times reports, bring on the ‘stache: Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the battle-tested Army officer tapped as President Trump’s national security adviser last year to stabilize a turbulent foreign policy operation, will resign and be replaced by John R. Bolton, a hard-line former United States ambassador to the United Nations, White House […]
As the Greeley Tribune’s Tyler Silvy reports, Rep. Ken Buck, the former District Attorney for Weld County before being elected to Congress, is tired of all this investigating of our Dear Leader already: Rep. Ken Buck said Wednesday he’s concerned the special counsel investigation has gone beyond its original scope, saying the law allowing the […]
(Insurance – Promoted by Colorado Pols) The chair of Republican Cynthia Coffman’s gubernatorial campaign donated the maximum allowable amount this election period not only to Coffman but also to Democratic Lt. Governor Donna Lynne, who’s also running for governor. L. Roger Hutson, whose role in the Coffman campaign was announced just last week, has a history […]
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