(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%
By this time next week, many Colorado voters will have already cast their ballots in the 2016 election; we’re almost home, folks. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. 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 […]
Newspaper endorsements do not carry the same weight with voters that they once did. Editorial language often gets so watered-down that readers must squint between the lines as much as focusing on the printed words. Endorsements can be so deferential to both candidates that the headline is the only real clue as to what message an editorial board […]
UPDATE: As reported by Ernest Luning and the Denver Post’s John Frank, Rep. Clarice Navarro wants you to know she is still on the Trump Train: State Rep. Clarice Navarro, a Pueblo Republican who has advised Trump on how to reach out to Latino voters, did not sign the letter. But she issued a statement that […]
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) and Democratic state Sen. Morgan Carroll (D-Aurora) took part in their first non-Spanish language debate on Wednesday, sponsored by Channel 4, Colorado Public Television (CPT) and KOA News Radio. Wednesday’s debate was live-streamed online, and the video is still available on YouTube, so we’re watching it ourselves and providing you the blow-by-blow details. […]
Missed Friday the 13th by that much! It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. 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… ► […]
Earlier this week we took note of a sharp rebuke of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump by Bill Owens, the last Republican to serve as Governor in Colorado. As longtime Colorado political journalist Ernest Luning Tweets this morning, Colorado Republicans are scrambling to convince legislative campaigns across the state to ignore the rebuke from Owens: .@cologop sources say #coleg […]
Late last month, CBS4 Denver’s Brian Maass ran a story that’s been stirring a great deal of alarm among the right wing’s perennial “vote fraud” conspiracy theorists–a report that identified a handful of cases, in which voters in Colorado who were deceased had votes cast in their name: A CBS4 investigation has found multiple cases […]
Have an easy fast today (Yom Kippur). It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. 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… ► Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton […]
A new mail piece arriving in Senate District 19 mailboxes is provoking spit-takes from recipients in the know. The positive-message mailer originates from Republican state Sen. Laura Waters Woods’ own campaign, with one particular quote attributed a Woods supporter constituent standing out: Woods’ mail piece celebrates an alleged moment in which she helped an elderly couple qualify […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) “Unhappy with Trump? Want to Write In Pence? It Doesn’t Work That Way.” That’s the title of a story by Colorado Public Radio’s Ryan Warner, who did a nice job fact checking U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner Monday, reporting that if Gardner writes in the name of Mike Pence as his pick […]
The first — and only — televised debate in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race takes place tonight at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver (hosted by 9News). Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is well on his way to a blowout victory over Republican Senate nominee Darryl Glenn — nevermind Glenn’s ridiculous claim today that the race is a “virtual […]
That’s in a fundraising email from GOP U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn’s campaign this afternoon–and as you all know, fundraising emails never lie: My liberal opponent, Senator Michael Bennet, thinks he’s too good for you. Typical Washington insider. That’s why he spends a lot of his time in DC, not Colorado. That’s why he’s pulled […]
As the Denver Post’s John Frank reports: Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens on Tuesday issued a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump, calling him a “charlatan” who is hurting the Republican Party. Owens, a Republican and two-term Colorado governor, said the party “has been temporarily captured by a narcissist who will throw us aside after doing […]
I’ve previously chronicled the various positions of Colorado Republicans on Trump, but this time I ran into problems categorizing their stances. As you’ll see below, there’s Never Trump, Dumped Trump, Maybe Trump, Love Trump, and many more. It’s confusing to be the bean counter (me), but it’s undoubtedly far more taxing to be them, trying to […]
Can Donald Trump completely destroy the Republican Party in just one month? He’s gonna try… It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. 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 […]
As CNN reports, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is taking the “shackles” off and throwing down gauntlets and whatever strained metaphor you might prefer to use: Donald Trump is launching a kamikaze mission — fracturing his own party four weeks before Election Day. The GOP nominee is lashing out in a stream of tweets boiling with […]
The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Joey Bunch reports on Trump-spawn Eric Trump’s campaign swing in Colorado, yesterday in Denver and moving north today to Greeley: Eric Trump, the presidential candidate’s 32-year-old son, came to Colorado Monday to talk business and energize volunteers, but he was armed and ready to defend his father’s personal reputation. He blamed Hillary […]
UPDATE #4: Colorado GOP chairman Steve House re-kisses the ring: —- UPDATE #3: Denver7’s Mark Belcher reports: After calling on the Republican nominee for President to step aside, U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn has gone back on his decision to not vote for Donald Trump. Glenn, who is a Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Colorado, […]
UPDATE: Alrighty, then: #Breaking: Priebus declares RNC standing behind Trump https://t.co/kkupVA6tyd pic.twitter.com/gIC18rACtZ — POLITICO (@politico) October 10, 2016 —– As Politico reports, Republicans across the country aren’t sure what to do about Presidential candidate Donald Trump as the Big Orange’s campaign craters: As Donald Trump’s campaign unravels, the Republican National Committee has gone dark — failing to […]
Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in Canada. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. 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… ► As you may have […]
This weekend, the debate between Republican Rep. Mike Coffman and his Democratic opponent Morgan Carroll in Spanish aired after being taped on October 4th. Carroll’s campaign fired off a press release as the debate aired on Saturday that we suspect they could barely wait to send, because it’s a bit of a bombshell: Coffman Verbatim […]
The second, and for all intents and purposes, last relevant Presidential debate of 2016 takes place in St. Louis, Missouri at 7:00 pm. At this point in the Presidential race, Democrat Hillary Clinton could get hit by multiple buses and still likely end up defeating Republican Donald Trump after Trump’s terrible, terrible, terrible weekend of stories surrounding […]
UPDATE: Apparently we woke up Tipton from his weekend nap so that he could be clear he WILL STILL BE SUPPORTING TRUMP. Good thing Tipton demanded an apology (Trump has already apologized, for whatever that’s worth). JUST IN: @ScottRTipton calls @realDonaldTrump taped remarks “shocking and appalling,” calls for apology, will vote for Trump. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/tzXtaBaTtt — Ernest […]
SATURDAY UPDATE #2: The word of the day in Republican circles is “panic.” Top #copolitics GOP consultant: “It’s an absolute panic today,” worried it could get much worse. #coleg — Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) October 8, 2016 Donald Trump pulls ads from Colorado, other battleground states https://t.co/hFSy3zbTEJ pic.twitter.com/XlWFntOslV — The Denver Post (@denverpost) October 8, 2016 […]
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