(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%
A press release from the Colorado House Democratic majority highlights a bill moving through that chamber to expand parental leave rights for Colorado workers–and contains an amusing twist: A bill by Rep. Janet Buckner, D-Aurora, to allow parents to take unpaid leave to attend their children’s essential academic activities passed the Education Committee on a […]
Yesterday, supporters of Planned Parenthood delivered a petition signed by over 60,000 people across the nation calling for GOP Rep. JoAnn Windholz to resign over her comments blaming the organization for the attack on its clinic in Colorado Springs last November. As the Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland reports: The group organizing a recall against state […]
On Thursday FOX News will host the final Republican Presidential debate before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, and the big news — of course — is that frontrunner Donald Trump plans to skip the event in Des Moines. But that’s not the only news that caught our attention. Per FOX News, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore somehow […]
A bunch of armed terrorists take over a federal building in Oregon, and they blame law enforcement when one of them is killed. Sure, that makes sense. 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… […]
Numbers are in for the all-important CD-6 race in the 4th quarter of 2015: BREAKING: @coffmanforco raises $313K, @MorganLCarroll rpts $277K in Q4. His COH: $1M, hers: $452K https://t.co/hyLCclTMz5 #copolitics #coleg — Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) January 26, 2016 We can start with the obvious, incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Coffman did outraise his Democratic opponent […]
Republicans in Congressional District 7 (Jefferson County) now know the name of the candidate who will not be defeating incumbent Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter in November. Perlmutter has consistently churned out double-digit victories every two years no matter whom the GOP sets in his path, so you don’t need to know much about Westminster city council member Bruce Baker to […]
As the Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins reports, Republicans in the Colorado General Assembly led by Sen. Tim Neville are pushing most of the usual slate of pro-gun bills in 2016, starting with another attempt to repeal the 15-round magazine limit passed in 2013: Lawmakers in Colorado, including one state Senator who’s running for higher office, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Informed that radio host Peter Boyles wishes Ryan Call were back in charge of the Colorado Republican Party, former state GOP chair Ryan Call said on KNUS 710-AM Saturday: Call: “To the extent I’ve ever heard Tom Tancredo acknowledge he’s wrong about something, I think in some ways, he’s done the […]
In the wake of Tim Leonard’s victory in the GOP Colorado House District 25 vacancy committee selection this past weekend, dissidents led by ubiquitous conservative watchdog Marilyn Marks are challenging the process by which the members of the vacancy committee were organized. A Facebook post from Florence Urbish Sebern, a Republican activist in Denver, appears to […]
Only seven more days until we can stop pretending to care about Iowa’s opinion. 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… ► Transportation funding is quickly rising to the top of the to-do list […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, the National Review posted a collection of anti-Trump opinion pieces written by conservatives, like Commentary Editor John Podhoretz, who hammered Trump’s “repellent assertion that the first black president needed to prove to Trump’s satisfaction that he was actually an American.” Podhoretz: The cultural signposts Trump brandished in the years […]
Here’s a clip from Colorado GOP Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt’s most recent Pray in Jesus’ Name “Youtube ministry” broadcast, a fascinating exchange in an interview with conservative firebrand and former U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes–on the subject of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s call to halt all immigration of Muslims into the United States: CHAPS: […]
An unusual conflict arose in news reports over an incident Friday on the floor of the Colorado House. As the Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland reports, House Democrats paused to observe the 43rd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion rights: Roughly two dozen Colorado House Democrats took to the floor to recognize the 43rd anniversary […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In the nine long months after political reporter Eli Stokols left Fox 31 Denver, it looked like the local TV station’s surprising reputation as a go-to source for political news, cultivated by over a decade of obsessive work by Stokols, was going to be completely lost. Serious politics coverage at Fox […]
The Denver Broncos will represent the AFC in Super Bowl 50 two weeks from today!!! Denver beat New England 20-18, which means Patriots QB Tom Brady now has a lot more time on his hands to help his BFF Donald Trump. Von Miller for President!
That’s the word from Jefferson County’s Taj Majal this afternoon, where the political machine of U.S. Senate candidate and GOP grassroots leader Tim Neville has succeeding in winning the Colorado House seat of retiring Rep. Jon Keyser–Keyser, of course, resigning to take on Neville in the 2016 GOP U.S. Senate primary. After candidate they backed […]
State Sen. Vicki Marble isn’t happy that the Denver Post noticed she and seven of her colleagues were a consistent thorn in the side of, well, everybody in the 2015 legislative session. Take a look at this screenshot of the opening paragraphs of Marble’s Op-Ed for the Colorado Statesman. According to Marble, she belongs to an informal group […]
The AP’s Kristen Wyatt has a great story up today on this year’s widely-anticipated battles in the Colorado legislature over–wait for it–abortion politics. After Cory Gardner successfully gummed this issue to death in 2014, it’s an issue that many Democrats are fatigued at the prospect of having to argue yet again. Unfortunately, Republicans are fresh off a year […]
Republican businessman Robert Blaha is one of 10 candidates actively seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 2016, but he is the first of the Republican field to have aired a campaign commercial. Blahs’s first ad, dubbed “Product Guarantee,” apparently aired last Sunday during the Denver Broncos’ playoff victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you missed […]
The New England Patriots began the day on Friday as 3-point favorites over the Denver Broncos in Sunday’s AFC Championship game; if nothing else, please tell the Patriots not to bring that huge east coast blizzard with them when they come to Denver. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something […]
As the Denver Post’s Jesse Paul reports this afternoon, bringing a decades-long controversy in Colorado’s high country full circle: Attorneys for Silverton and San Juan County are in the process of drafting a letter to Colorado’s governor in support of Superfund cleanup for its leaching, abandoned mines. While the request still must be approved by […]
As far as we can tell, no other Colorado Republican has announced plans to run for U.S. Senate today. So far, anyway. 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… ► There are at least […]
ThinkProgress reports on a Maryland Republican doing his best Jim Welker impersonation: Appearing at a town hall meeting Wednesday night, Congressman Andy Harris (R-MD) argued that Washington, D.C. should not be a state because its residents make “irresponsible decisions.” District residents have been engaged in a decades-long fight for statehood in order to gain representation […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Independent’s Kyle Harris bro-ports: In The Denver Post, 38 percent of the bylines of stories about reproductive issues were from women, while 53 percent were from men. Regarding sources, The Denver Post ranked second to last of the outlets examined: 28 percent of the sources speaking about reproductivee issues were women, 52 […]
As the Denver Post’s Mark Matthews reports, it’s a match made in heaven: U.S. Rep. Ken Buck on Wednesday became the first member of Colorado’s congressional delegation to back U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for president — calling the Texas Republican (and fellow Princeton alum) a “strong, conservative leader” who has “fought hard against the Washington establishment.” […]
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