(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%
Anadarko Petroleum said on Tuesday that it is permanently disconnecting several oil and gas pipelines around the Firestone area, where a home exploded in late April killing two people and seriously injuring two others. But as a staggering new report from the International Business Times details today, Anadarko is spending obscene amounts of money to […]
UPDATE: A senior Trump admin official says the president is “completely fucked.” https://t.co/mWufOgokbh pic.twitter.com/qADEjun6I1 — Eric Geller (@ericgeller) May 16, 2017 —– As the New York Times reports this afternoon, President Trump’s situation regarding allegations of ties to Russia just zoomed past “bad” and “worse” and is careening toward “catastrophic”: President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James […]
UPDATE #2: Speaking with the Denver Post’s Mark Matthews, Sen. Cory Gardner tries and fails miserably to explain his silence on Trump disclosing classified information versus his legislation last year to strip Hillary Clinton of her security clearance: Last year, [Gardner] introduced a measure aimed at Hillary Clinton that would have revoked her security clearances […]
While the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate tries to plot a way forward after the House’s passage of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, new data from Public Policy Polling shows the effort doing severe political damage to Republicans nationwide: PPP’s new national poll finds that Republicans are facing significant backlash over the health care bill that’s […]
Greetings, comrades! Let us commence with today’s lesson plan. 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… ► President Trump’s administration is […]
Via the Longmont Times-Call’s John Fryar: State Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, and Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone, are initiating a set of summer “energy summits to address oil and gas pipeline safety,” Marble announced in a news release this morning. Both lawmakers represent the Firestone area, where a house explosion last month killed two people. […]
Surely, by now, you’ve heard the news about President Trump sharing CLASSIFIED information with the Russians — in the White House, no less. Just last week, Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and apparently divulged highly classified information that could compromise intelligence sources in the Middle East. Anyway, today seemed like a good […]
UPDATE (5:08 pm): National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster just made a brief statement at the White House that was a vague denial of the story. McMaster did not respond to questions. —– Breaking news this afternoon from the Washington Post: President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White […]
Last week was not a good week for President Donald Trump. Things are not looking much better. The newest batch of approval ratings from Gallup are out today, and President Trump is demonstrating a consistently-downward trend. Check out how Trump’s approval ratings stack up to his predecessors at a similar time in their respective administrations: Barack […]
Media analysis of the 2017 Colorado legislative session, which ended last Wednesday, has given both parties a lot of credit for hammering out a deal to make a small but important bookkeeping change to the state’s Hospital Provider Fee program–reclassifying HPDF revenue is an “enterprise” to free it (and by extension the state budget) from revenue […]
(Uh, what? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) wants a special prosecutor not only to dig into Russian interference in the last election but also to investigate the Obama Administration. In an appearance on a Denver radio station this morning, Coffman pointed out that an investigation by a special prosecutor could […]
When we last mentioned DaVita CEO Kent Thiry in this space, it was to talk about his arm-twisting efforts to convince the state legislature to implement new rules on Unaffiliated participation in partisan primaries — in a particular manner that best fit his questionable perception of how Proposition 108 should work in real life. Thiry is […]
Big story from the Colorado Statesman’s Ernest Luning, click or you’ll miss it: Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell has amassed more than 10,000 fans of his candidate page on Facebook, the businessman and former state lawmaker said this week, achieving what his campaign maintains is a significant benchmark 18 months before the election. “Our campaign […]
Lots of speculation today that former Colorado Attorney General and current Mayor of Colorado Springs John Suthers is on the “short list” to replace ousted FBI Director James Comey–a promotion that would put Suthers smack dab in the middle of the biggest political crisis in many years. FOX 31: Former Colorado Attorney General and current […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Steve Barlock, the former chair of the Denver Trump Campaign, announced he’s considering a jump into the governor’s race and immediately took a shot at fellow Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Robinson and likely GOP candidate Walker Stapleton. “I am interested because I want to stop a Bush and stop a Romney,” […]
Humpty Dumpty done fell off the wall. 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… ► President Trump and White House […]
If you’re still buying what the White House is selling on the rationale behind the firing of FBI Director Jim Comey…well, it’s time to put your wallet away. From CNN: The White House just can’t get its story straight about why President Trump decided to fire FBI Director James Comey… …The firing of an FBI director […]
(Because, you know, that would suck – Promoted by Colorado Pols) On KOA 850-AM this morning, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) compared the Russian interference in the 2016 election to the attacks on Obama over his birth certificate. Asked by host April Zesbaugh if he thought “we will get to the bottom of the Russian […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado’s Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet took the fight against fake news to the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, saying Trump resorts to “talking about ‘fake news’ when he doesn’t like [journalists’] reporting” and that Trump has a “hard time” distinguishing between “something that is real” and “somebody shooting their mouth off […]
Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) has ascended to a leadership position in the U.S. Senate…but you wouldn’t know this based on his response to the blockbuster news on Tuesday that President Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. Gardner is the Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), making it his responsibility to make sure that Republicans maintain their Senate majority […]
It’s still early, but President Trump hasn’t fired anybody today. 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… ► President Trump on […]
A big surprise out of Washington, D.C. this morning–and we mean that in a good way for a change–as the Washington Post reports: The U.S. Senate narrowly voted down a resolution on Wednesday to repeal an Obama-era rule regulating methane emissions from drilling on public lands — with three Republicans joining every Democrat to preserve […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Washington Post: The startling development comes as Comey was leading a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether associates of Trump may have coordinated with Russia to interfere with the U.S. presidential election last year. It wasn’t immediately clear how Comey’s ouster will affect the Russia probe, but Democrats said they were concerned that his […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Two years ago, anti-abortion activists released undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing their program that provides fetal tissue, donated by women who have an abortion or miscarriage, for use in medical research. In the wake of the release of the highly-edited videos, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) released documents showing […]
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) will play a significant role when the U.S. Senate tackles Trumpcare 2.0. As the New York Times reports, Gardner is one of the 13 white dudes Republican Senators chosen by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who will tackle crafting the next iteration of Trumpcare: …the Senate majority leader’s decision to create a 13-man working group […]
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