(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado State Sen. Laura Woods suggested in a radio interview last month that state Republicans wanted Gov. John Hickenlooper to cut health-care for children, elderly, the disabled, and other poor people in exchange for allowing the state to spend $370 million in TABOR rebates on roads, schools, and other state programs. “All […]
As The Hill reports: A former Republican senator is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president after the mass shooting in Orlando, citing her support for gun control. Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) called for universal background checks on all gun sales and an assault weapons ban Monday in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. […]
We wrote recently about the swiftly nastifying Republican primary in El Paso County’s House District 16, where incumbent Rep. Janak “Dr. Nick” Joshi is battling to hold off a strong challenge from former Rep. Larry Liston. After breaking with longstanding General Assembly protocol by using Liston’s appearance in a humorous sketch-comedy bit known as the “Hummers” […]
Running for office is exhausting, time-killing, and sometimes soul-crushing — and that’s just for those candidates who don’t make ridiculous errors. We stumbled across the “About the Candidate” link for Elet Valentine, one of three Democrats seeking to win a Primary in HD-7 (Northeast Denver), and…wow. We really don’t know much about this race or the […]
The Western Conservative Summit, an annual July event organized by the Centennial Institute — which is affiliated closely with Colorado Christian University — has been trying for weeks to get its followers to encourage Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump to attend their 2016 gathering. Apparently, it worked. As Joey Bunch confirms for The Denver Post: Donald Trump is set […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s recent racially-charged attacks on the federal judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University have proven too much for two of the five Republican candidates running in Colorado’s U.S. Senate primary Ex-Democrat Jack “Nighthorse” Graham and Ryan Frazier. Revel in their sound […]
UPDATE #3: From One Colorado, the state’s biggest LGBT advocacy group: Dave Montez, Executive Director of One Colorado, the state’s leading advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Coloradans and their families, issued the following statement in response to the shooting last night at an Orlando gay nightclub that killed 50 and injured […]
As the Fort Collins Coloradoan’s Nick Coltrain reports: The first ad produced in the race for Larimer County’s Congressional seat takes some liberties in explaining incumbent Jared Polis’ positions and wealth. Nic Morse, a Fort Collins Republican hoping to head to Washington next year, posted a 30-second spot on YouTube earlier this month that characterizes […]
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy 53 years ago today; clearly, we’re still working on this issue. 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 […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Adams County Republican Party Vice Chair John Sampson does not believe that a Muslim judge, who chose to take her oath of office with her hand on a Quran, will use Sharia law as the basis of her legal decisions, even though an email shared by Sampson on Facebook made the […]
Last night, 9NEWS aired a jailhouse interview with Maureen Moss, the petition gatherer accused of forging dozens of Republican voter signatures for petitions on behalf of Jon Keyser’s U.S. Senate campaign–what’s been arithmetically determined to be a sufficient number of forged signatures to account for the extremely small margin by which Keyser qualified the ballot in […]
It’s hotter than Donald Trump’s blowdrier outside. 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… ► The Get More Smarter Show […]
(Look out below – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Depending on where you’re coming from, one of the most interesting, important, scary, fun, inspiring, or depressing questions about Trump’s triumph among Republicans is, how will he impact down-ticket races? Here in Colorado, no down-ticket seat is more important than that of State Sen. Laura Woods, the […]
UPDATE: Ryan Frazier fires back with indignation we believe is heartfelt: New in #cosen race @RyanLFrazier attacks @jackgraham2016 “Graham doesn’t understand young black culture” #copolitics pic.twitter.com/kA9a91BpBu — Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) June 9, 2016 —– The Denver Post has been running bio pieces on the Republican U.S. Senate primary candidates all week–mostly recaps of what our […]
As ballots arrive in Colorado mailboxes for the June 28th primary election, the Republican HD-16 primary between incumbent Rep. Janak Joshi and former Rep. Larry Liston in Colorado Springs is getting nastier by the minute–with the latest volley from Joshi, unleashing a lengthy radio spot slamming Liston’s “RINO” record in the state legislature: Ouch! Not what any […]
This week on Get More Smarter: now with fewer glaring technical problems! Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the Republican U.S. Senate primary, Bachelor star Ben Higgins, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s veep speculation, and more! Then stay tuned for an interview with former Chief of Staff for House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst Ian Silverii, now the executive director […]
CBS4 Denver reports from the Colorado Capitol today, where a long list of Democratic politicos from Gov. John Hickenlooper on down took to the podium to denounce GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attacks on a sitting federal judge: Hickenlooper, along with former Denver Mayor Federico Pena, former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky, former Denver City […]
(Let the bad blood flow – Promoted by Colorado Pols) U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell waded into Colorado politics Saturday, telling KNUS 710’s Craig Silverman that to accept the endorsement of the Senate Conservative Fund (SCF) is like having a “ticket on the Titanic” So, since Republican U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn has accepted the […]
Breaking news from just about every Colorado news outlet today regarding the petition fraud scandal dogging Republican Senate candidate Jon Keyser. Credit, of course, to the original reporting from Marshall Zelinger of Denver7: VIDEO: #Denver7 captures the ARREST of Maureen Moss, signature collector for @Jon_Keyser. 34 forgery counts. #cosenpic.twitter.com/w99xDlneta — Marshall Zelinger (@7Marshall) June 8, […]
The five Republican candidates for U.S. Senate took part in a debate at 9News in Denver on Tuesday. We watched the entire debate and graded the candidates on stage, as we have done for previous debates. The Republican Senate candidates are spending quite a bit of time together lately, and will debate again on Wednesday in Colorado […]
That’s the word from Illinois, as “The Fix” reports: Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk rescinded his endorsement of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy on Tuesday afternoon, the first elected official to vacate support for the real estate mogul in the wake of a growing controversy over his comments about a federal judge… …The question now is whether Kirk […]
Is it really over? Finally? 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… ► We all know about the perceived […]
CNN, not really news at this point but the math is settled: Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Monday, according to CNN’s delegate and superdelegate count, and will become the first woman in the 240-year history of the United States to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party. A strong showing in […]
The Denver Post’s Joey Bunch reports on a big move upward for a local political usual suspect: The politico who started ProgressNow in Colorado and branched out the left-leaning hubs to 23 states has a new mission. Michael Huttner will be chief executive of the social change firm Fenton, which has offices in New York, […]
(Ouch – Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you’re wondering how hard it must be for some Republicans to be Republicans, I offer you this excerpt from a March letter from Adams County Republicans to their congressional representatives. Authored by Adams GOP chair Anil Mathai, the letter thanks Buck, Tipton and Lamborn, while attacking Sen. Cory […]
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