(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%
The partnership between 7NEWS Denver and Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact made another big contribution to truth in politics Friday evening, demolishing a ridiculous claim from Sen. Cory Gardner on the history of confirming Supreme Court justices by Presidents and Congresses not of the same party: Some senators have been flunking their exams on Supreme Court nomination history. […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Apropos, the Denver Post’s editorial board slams the decision by Colorado Republicans to abort their presidential caucus polling this year: The Colorado Republican Party’s decision last summer to jettison a presidential poll at its caucus on Tuesday looks worse with every passing day. Except for the actual delegates to […]
UPDATE #2: Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman’s hilarious response to today’s opinion–hilarious if you’ve seen Senate President Bill Cadman’s original below, that is: —– UPDATE: The Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins: Whether to reclassify the program isn’t a novel idea this year. Last year, the state’s Democratic House Speaker brought forward a bill, late in the […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Trump won in South Carolina because GOP primary voters were angry at establishment Republicans for “submitting to the leftist, racist political correctness and removing the confederate flag without discussion,” according to Anil Mathai, the chair of the Adams County Republican Party. Mathai: “People are totally missing what happened tonight in South […]
CNN reporting on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s decisive win last night in South Carolina’s Democratic primary: Riding the strength of her support among African-Americans to a resounding victory in the Palmetto State, Clinton seized the momentum in the Democratic presidential race — winning her third of four early-state contests just three days before the race […]
When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced today that he would endorse Donald Trump for President, the entire 2016 election cycle flipped upside down. You could make a case that this was already happening — Trump has been steadily rising toward the Republican Presidential nomination for some time now — but Christie’s endorsement broke the seal of inevitability. Until today, Republicans […]
POLS UPDATE: The New York Times reports: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey endorsed Donald J. Trump on Friday, a major turn in a wild race and one that gives the New York businessman a major boost as he heads into the pivotal “Super Tuesday” contests. Mr. Christie was a candidate for president himself until […]
Enjoy a pretty Super Friday. 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… ► New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has endorsed Donald Trump for President. All aboard the bandwagon! ► Colorado voters finally get a chance […]
You show me your tax returns and I’ll show you mine! 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… ► Republican Presidential candidates will debate for the final time before Super Tuesday when they […]
As the Denver Post’s Mark Matthews reports, Colorado’s junior Sen. Cory Gardner is taking a taxpayer-funded junket to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to “see for himself” how the remaining 91-some odd detainees left in legal limbo there are getting on: U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner and Jerry Moran — two ardent critics […]
The Chinese New Year began on February 8, and according to tradition, 2016 is the “Year of the Monkey.” Perhaps 2017 will be the “Year of the Priola,” because 2016 sure isn’t starting out well for state Rep. Kevin Priola. Earlier this month Priola took a lot of heat for asking to delay a legislative hearing discussing family leave […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Choice issues will continue to impregnate political discourse as we head toward November for the simple reason that women, a huge swing voting bloc in Colorado, care about candidates’ positions on abortion. Of course they do. That’s common sense. Yet, you still hear anti-choice conservatives saying how insulted they are by […]
As the Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene reports, GOP Attorney General Cynthia Coffman had a bizarre “Twitter meltdown” last week following the interview of the mother of Dylan Klebold, of one of the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting: Ted Zocco-Hochhalter — father of a student who was paralyzed in the 1999 rampage — didn’t […]
A quick roundup of a flurry of endorsements as the Democratic caucus in Colorado rapidly approaches–yesterday, a group of Colorado gun violence survivors announced their endorsement of Hillary Clinton, citing her steady support for stronger gun safety laws: Four Coloradans who lost loved ones in mass shootings in Aurora, Columbine, and Sandy Hook today endorsed […]
Take heart, Rockies fans; Donald Trump was once thought to be a longshot contender for President. 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… ► The Nevada caucuses are in the books. We learned […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Trump wins again, and with nearly 46% of the vote, His Hairness received a greater percentage of the vote than Marco Rubio (23.9%) and Ted Cruz (21.4%) combined. —– Nevada Republicans are caucusing tonight. Will Donald Trump pull out another victory, as expected? Can Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz effectively spin a loss into a sort-of-win? Click here to see […]
(So much verbal diarrhea – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last month, Rep. Mike Coffman wrote on Facebook that Obama is the “real recruiting tool” for terrorists, not GITMO. Coffman: “President Obama wants to close GTMO because he thinks it’s a recruiting tool for terrorists – the real recruiting tool is a President who seems more concerned […]
As the Washington Post reports, the all-important Senate Judiciary Committee is locking down against holding any hearings on a possible replacement for recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are determined not to hold hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, making it clear on Tuesday […]
Thank goodness the rest of America doesn’t just refuse to do its job like the U.S. Senate. 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… ► Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said today that the Senate […]
Big news out of Arapahoe County this morning, where Tom Sullivan, the father of an Aurora shooting victim and a frequent witness at the Colorado Capitol in support of gun safety legislation, is announcing his run for a Colorado Senate seat in SD-27–the seat now held by recently-appointed Sen. Jack Tate, opening an unexpectedly strong challenge in a […]
Alright, so it took us a little bit longer than we had anticipated to finish up our “Debate Diary” of the first Republican Senate candidate forum of 2016. Last week we posted Part 1 of our “Debate Diary,” and you can now read Part 2 after the jump below. On Thursday (Feb. 11), the University of […]
Today, the GOP-controlled Colorado Senate gave final approval to Senate Bill 16-070, this year’s edition of perennial “work for less” legislation that would cripple the ability of labor unions to organize in Colorado workplaces. “Work for less,” like abortion bans and other pieces of hard-conservative legislation coming out of the Republican Senate, is of course destined […]
(Not surprising but certainly notable – Promoted by Colorado Pols) As Trump surges, reporters should tell us about the support, or lack thereof, the magnate gets from local Republican muckety mucks. We’ve seen coverage of politicos lining up for Clinton (Hick), Cruz (Buck), Rubio (Gardner), Sanders (Salazar), and others. And the Colorado Statesman just reported that top […]
GOP Sen. Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulphur Springs, often mentioned in this space due to his “dressy Western” appearance at the Capitol and his penchant for similarly rough-hewn politics, is facing a serious challenge once again in 2016 from his 2012 general election opponent, Club 20 board member and Colorado Mountain College teacher Emily Tracy–from a […]
As Colorado’s political class continues to figure out what to make of Initiative 107, the product of out-of-work legislators and political operatives to “reform” the state’s redistricting and reapportionment process ahead of the 2020 census, the chairman of the Colorado Reapportionment Commission from 2011, unaffiliated voter Mario Carrera, released a statement this morning panning the new […]
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