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Lauren Boebert Joins The Flat Earth Society?
It’s not an allegation we would make lightly even against the infamously conspiracy-befuddled Rep. Lauren Boebert, but this Facebook post from Aspen socialite and friend of Boebert Maggie Silvers raises the honest question: We re-read the above post a couple of times in hope of discovering how we had somehow misunderstood, but scrolling down it […]
“Dr. Phil” Jumps On Board The Aurora Crazy Tren
As Westword’s Bennito Kelty reports, the substantial viewership of daytime talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, trusted by millions for the advice he dispenses on air but also with a record of controversies and legal trouble of his own manufacture, was infotained on Monday with yet another wildly exaggerated portrayal of Aurora, Colorado, a city […]
Emerson/FOX 31: Evans, Caraveo Locked At 44%
A new poll this morning of Colorado’s (and one of the nation’s) most competitive congressional races, Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, shows a race as close as the mapmakers intended when they drew this almost perfectly divided district: A new poll of voters in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District shows a tie between Democratic incumbent Yadira Caraveo […]
Biggest Veep Debate Ever Open Thread
Arizona Republican Party Throws Down for Gabe Evans?
If you are a likely voter without a strong record of political affiliation, we don’t need to tell you that your mailbox is full of campaign advertisements. This is particularly true if you live in congressional district eight, which is home to the most visible 2024 race in Colorado between incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo […]
The Great Quick Hits Experiment
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…it’s a quick hits only episode! We’re trying something new this week: Can we get through 15 topics in 30 minutes? Probably not! But you’ll have to listen to find out. Listen to previous episodes of The Get More Smarter Podcast at GetMoreSmarter.com. Find out why The Denver Post calls […]
Another Gabe Evans Supporter’s Shockingly Antisemitic Posts
(Where do all these Nazis keep coming from? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder For the second time this month, a supporter of Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans has been found to be promoting racist and antisemitic content online. On Sept 11, Evans fired his political director for her […]
Poll: Is Trump Coming To Aurora Or Not?
As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports, we’re coming up on two weeks since ex-President Donald Trump promised to visit what he describes as the war-torn streets of Aurora, Colorado, where roving Venezuelan “supergangs” are eating the dogs and cats… Sorry, we got the details mixed up. It’s Haitians eating the pets in Springfield, Ohio, […]
Italian Boxer Declines Boebert’s Bigot Bucks
During the Summer Olympic Games in Paris last August, as readers will remember, a controversy erupted over a female Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who was dubiously accused of being male on her way to winning the gold medal in her weight classification. Khelif’s bout against Italian boxer Angela Carini ended early after Carini stopped the […]
Who Will Win Colorado’s Two Tightest Congressional Races?
It’s that time in the election cycle when we ask readers of Colorado Pols about what’s going to happen when the votes are tallied. Pols’ readers have been oddly accurate in predicting outcomes over the years, so while these polls are completely unscientific, we think the results still carry some real weight. As always, we […]
Fact-Check Lauren Boebert, Reap The Snark
Last week, Colorado’s eminent epicenter of rhetorical excess Rep. Lauren Boebert sat down for an interview with Colorado Public Radio’s Ryan Warner, who has a reputation for fair and polite yet still persistent questioning, and also capable of real-time fact-checking so as not to allow his interviews to become launchpads for misinformation. As The Hill’s […]
Dave Williams’ Colorado GOP Gets Back To Offending Everybody
Colorado Republicans today are still reeling from or celebrating (depending on what side you’re on) yesterday’s ruling by an El Paso County judge definitively rejecting the attempt by critics of state party chairman Dave “Don’t Need No Stinking Brandon” Williams to oust him and his elective leadership allies, and replace Williams with former U.S. Senate […]
Analysis: Anti-Gay Threads Run Though Congressional Candidate Gabe Evans’ Adult Life
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder “If gay marriages are allowed, the institution of marriage will have been redefined to include all of the perverted and immoral practices mentioned above.” Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans wrote those words in a 2004 letter to the editor when he was just 17 years old. […]
Dave Williams Triumphs In Colorado Republican Party Leadership Battle
As Colorado Public Radio’s Megan Verlee reports, an El Paso County judge has once again upended the struggle to determine who is in control of the Colorado Republican Party, perhaps decisively this time–ruling that the vote to remove state party chairman Dave “Brandon Out” Williams organized by pretender-chairman Eli Bremer was not sufficient to accomplish […]
Gabe Evans Will “Check The Box,” And That’s Why He Can’t Be Trusted
The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul gives us a lot to unpack today with a long-awaited hard look at CO-08 Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans’ views on the social issues of marriage equality and abortion rights. Responding to ads slamming with backup Evans’ no-exceptions opposition to abortion as he indicated in several candidate surveys, as well […]
Where Do You Buy One Of Dan Woog’s $25 Burgers?
When we last encountered former state Rep. Dan Woog, running again for the Colorado House in Erie’s HD-19, he seemed to be lost deep in somebody’s cornfield with voices manifesting either in his head or in the background in what we think was a parody of the movie Field of Dreams, although Woog never left […]
Boebert Starts The War On Christmas A Few Months Early
As the UK Indepedent’s Ariana Baio reports, debate yesterday in the U.S. House took a turn for the characteristically nutty, after Colorado’s carpetbagging crusader Rep. Lauren Boebert dropped one of her signature non sequitur bombs in floor debate over an amendment she offered to a forest management bill: Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert slammed Democrats […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Sept. 25)
On this day in 1981, Belize joined the United Nations; how’s that for obscure trivia? 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 learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
Trump Grows Aurora “Takeover” Fiction To Cover All Of Colorado
UPDATE: Gov. Jared Polis issued this statement welcoming Donald Trump to Colorado if he chooses to visit, but reminding Trump as a “convicted felon” to leave the “criminal elements that he brings with him” back in Washington: “Aurora is our third biggest city, over 400,000 people, it’s a terrific city, I was there last week. […]
Dave Williams Loots Colorado GOP During His Everlasting Goodbye
Yesterday, we discussed the conspicuous lack of the usual pre-election organizing operations normally carried out by the Colorado Republican Party this year, the result of gross mismanagement of dwindling resources under state party chairman Dave “Brandon Who?” Williams and a growing division between candidates who remain loyal to the state party and others including some […]
Get More Smarter on Tuesday (Sept. 24)
There are 41 days left until Election Day. 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 learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and the website […]
What Coordinated Campaign? Colorado Republicans Face The Down-Ballot Abyss
We’re just 42 days away from the 2024 general election, and as Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland and Caitlyn Kim report, the divided Colorado Republican Party’s disorganization and lack of resources to assist candidates at any level this year is becoming a full-scale emergency–and despite the urgency with yet another looming catastrophe at the polls […]
ProgressNow Colorado Launches “WomenAgainstGabe.org”
DENVER: In order to expose Gabe Evans’ personal mission to strip the women of Colorado of their rights and freedoms, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue advocacy organization, launched their campaign Women Against Gabe Evans beginning with a petition that will be digitally shared throughout the 8th Congressional District of Colorado. “There is a reason […]
The Big Line 2024: Ballot Measures
UPDATE: We’ve redone the graphic below to include the official titles of each of the (now) seven citizen measures that will appear on the General Election Ballot. We’ve also updated the odds as we see them. —– [Original Post: 8/27/24] The Big Line has been a staple on Colorado Pols since the site’s founding in […]