(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%
Today is the 72nd Anniversary of D-Day; kids, ask your parents or the History Channel. 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 […]
You have to dig through a slew of entertainment pseudo-media stories to find legitimate coverage of the rumors that reality TV star Ben Higgins of The Bachelor fame is considering a run for the Colorado House of Representatives, as a conservative Republican in the heavily Democratic district now represented by House Speaker pro tem Dan […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) tolde the Colorado Statesman through a spokesperson that racism has “no place” in the GOP. But he did not call for Sorenson’s resignation. ——————- The Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports today that not only is the NAACP calling for the resignation of Delta County Republican Chair Linda […]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Robert Blaha tells us how he really feels about the controversial interrogation practice known as “waterboarding” at last night’s candidate forum hosted by the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives in Colorado Springs: BLAHA: Well actually, I’ll rephrase the question because I do not consider waterboarding to be torture. [Pols emphasis] The way […]
A press release we just received from NAACP’s Colorado Wyoming Montana State Conference calls for the immediate resignation of Delta County Republican Party chairwoman Linda Sorenson, who is facing growing condemnation after her office denied racist Facebook postings she had previously admitted to: “There is no room in Colorado politics for the kind of blatant racism expressed […]
The latest fact-check from Politifact Colorado is quite harsh on GOP U.S. Senate dead man walking candidate Jon Keyser’s new “TV ad,” which has a token presence on television screens after a trifling media buy, and has already been flagged with questionable content by the Denver Post’s John Frank: “Now Obama wants to give these guys nuclear weapons and […]
What’s that thing politicians do right before they lose? Generally, there are a number of dead giveaways that the end is near for a political candidate. One is when you start laying off your “essential” staffers. Another is when you start cancelling public events. As the Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins reports, scandal-plagued GOP Senate candidate Jon […]
If you spend any time watching politics in the United States, the chances are pretty good that you’ve seen just about every variation of a campaign advertisement that there is to see. But every now and then, a TV ad pops up that looks a little different than the rest…like this ad for Denver District Attorney […]
Buzz appears to be growing in Colorado Springs over the upstart young legislative aide who shocked the Republican CD-5 assembly in April by routing incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn–by a margin almost large enough to toss the longtime GOP incumbent out of the race entirely. The Colorado Springs Independent reports this week on the insurgent GOP primary […]
Today is Gun Violence Prevention Day. 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… ► President Obama was in Colorado […]
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan announced yesterday that he planned to challenge Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the August Republican Primary in Alaska. As the Alaska Dispatch News reports, this could get weird for Alaska’s other U.S. Senator…Dan Sullivan: Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan filed to face U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary moments before the […]
It’s safe to say that the last month has not been kind to Republican Senate candidate Jon Keyser. With his campaign already reeling from from allegations of petition fraud, Keyser is now taking a beating from his fellow Republican Senate candidates over a false claim that he is a “lifelong Republican.” As Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Statesman: […]
He may not longer be an elected official, but you can’t get rid of Scott Gessler that easily! Gessler is a former Republican Secretary of State who has been quite the busy bee thus far in the 2016 election cycle. Republican Senate candidate Ryan Frazier hired Gessler last month after the current Secretary of State, Wayne Williams, originally ruled that Frazier was […]
Yesterday a Denver District Court judge threw out a lawsuit challenging the validity of signatures for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser, stating that regardless of what had been uncovered in media and criminal investigations into Keyser’s allegedly forged petitions, the deadline to challenge them had passed. As the Durango Herald’s Peter Marcus reports: The […]
Poor June 1st — it doesn’t get a cool nickname like “April Fools Day” or “May Day.” 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). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Can Democrats take back the House of Representatives while […]
As the Denver Post’s John Frank reports, beleaguered GOP U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser is up on the air with an ad attacking Sen. Michael Bennet over the Iranian nuclear weapons agreement–well, sort of on the air: The 30-second spot, which debuts Tuesday, emphasizes Keyser’s service as a “military intelligence officer” who conducted urban “capture and […]
Welcome to the last day of May. 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). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Just how rich is Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump? As Politico found out, the answer depends on the skill level of […]
Our friends at Right Wing Watch publicizing Colorado GOP Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt’s latest lowlight today, and frankly we’re surprised it took him this long to take on America’s most famous transgender celebrity icon: On his latest “Pray In Jesus Name” program, Religious Right activist and Colorado Republican lawmaker Gordon Klingenschmitt declared that Caitlyn Jenner […]
(Coulda, shoulda, woulda – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser has gotten a ton of advice on social media about how he should have reacted when it became obvious that signatures on his ballot-access petitions were actually factually forged. You recall, when asked to comment on the forgeries, Keyser first said nothing, […]
UPDATE #3: The quote of the day goes to attorney Mark Grueskin, from this Denver Post story: He rejected the Keyser camp’s assertion about the lawsuit’s motive. “If I had to defend forgery and fraud, I would probably try to deflect the issue to anything else, too,” he said. —– UPDATE #2: The Aurora Sentinel’s Chris Harrop: The lawsuit […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Terry Maketa, former El Paso County Sheriff, was indicted Wednesday, May 25, 2016, by a Grand Jury on six felony counts, including extortion, tampering with a witness, and second-degree kidnapping. The latter two charges stem from Maketa and codefendants Paula Presley and Juan San Agustin intimidating a witness to keep her […]
If at first you don’t succeed…just keep filing lawsuits until a judge gives up. 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). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Wednesday witnessed the debut of the Get More Smarter Show, and today you […]
Watch Part 2 of the Get More Smarter Show’s extended interview with Gov. John Hickenlooper! In today’s segment we’ll be talking to the Governor about his new memoir–although Hick says he’s “too young to have a memoir”–The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics, on bookshelves now. If you missed yesterday’s debut episode of the Get […]
UPDATE #2: Backpedal time! We do love the media attention, but Robert has never supported a ban on Muslims. He supports going “beyond” Mr. Trump’s statements, which singles out Muslims, to instead equally vetting all factors that could present a threat to American lives… So, Blaha said he wants to “go beyond just Muslims.” That […]
AP reporting, playtime is now officially over: Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president. His triumph completes an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter fall campaign. Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate […]
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