(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 Your Choice Colorado campaign kicked off last month, hoping to bypass the gridlocked Colorado General Assembly and take a question directly to voters next year to overturn one of Colorado’s last remaining Prohibition holdovers–the requirement that all alcoholic beverages over 3.2% alcohol content be sold in standalone liquor stores. As the Denver Post reports: A […]
Happy Veterans’ Day; or as they call it in Canada, Remembrance 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… ► The fourth Republican Presidential debate of the 2016 election was held last […]
If you have been spending a lot of time being concerned about holiday coffee cups at Starbucks, you might want to try pouring the hot liquid over your head. 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 […]
UPDATE: Per Brandon Rittiman at 9News, Hickenlooper’s office expects to name a new L.G. within a matter of weeks: UPDATE: @hickforco office expects to name Lt. Gov nominee “in the coming weeks.” #COleg could confirm next session. #copolitics #9news — Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) November 10, 2015 —– Breaking news this morning from John Frank, Joey Bunch, and Jesse Paul of […]
(Run, McPlagiarist, run! – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Former Congressman Scott McInnis told KNUS radio host Craig Silverman Saturday that he’s taking Spanish lessons and hasn’t ruled out a run for statewide office, despite the spectacular crash of his 2010 gubernatorial campaign after his “musings on water” articles proved to be plagiarized. But he doesn’t […]
The Durango Herald’s Peter Marcus reports from yesterday’s standing-room-only “hearing” (parentheses explained below) held by the Republican Study Committee of Colorado at the Capitol. The announced subject of yesterday’s all-day public event was something they called “fetal tissue trafficking,” but the event quickly devolved into a free-for-all anti-abortion speechification exercise: Colorado Republicans on Monday held […]
It has been exactly one month — to the day — since we last asked you this question: Who will be the next Republican Presidential candidate to drop out of the 2016 race? We didn’t include Jim Gilmore in our last poll, and we won’t include him here. We’re too lazy to figure out if the […]
As the Associated Press reports, things are getting hot enough in New Mexico that Gov. Susana Martinez is being forced to respond to several serious allegations about her political operation. You know things aren’t good when the FBI says it “will neither confirm nor deny” the existence of an investigation: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said […]
Enjoy your Monday — it’s better than a poke in the eye. 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 candidate Ben Carson is not handling his “frontrunner” status very well. On […]
(Wombghazi! – Promoted by Colorado Pols) With witnesses from across the political spectrum refusing to participate in today’s “informational hearing” on alleged sales of fetal-tissue for research purposes, Sen. Kevin Lundberg may request authority to subpoena witnesses for legislative hearings next year. “I can go to the Senate and seek permission to have that authority […]
As The Hill reports, Republican presidential co-frontrunner Donald Trump is cranking up the rhetoric against Ben Carson, the only other candidate even close to him in opinion polls after gains made in recent weeks: GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump says primary rival Ben Carson’s violent childhood indicates that he has a “pathological disease” that has […]
UPDATE: Maybe you’ve never heard of Peggy Littleton, but Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt has! Chaps recorded a full-episode interview with Littleton in 2013 on the evils of then-Sen. Evie Hudak and the Common Core education standards. You can watch the whole interview, but here’s the money quote of Littleton denouncing Hudak’s vote for the […]
As the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent’s John Stroud reports, the decision this week by Garfield County’s Republican commissioners to eliminate a small grant to Planned Parenthood in support of a health center in Glenwood Springs is…well, it’s tough to imagine this response from the community is what they had hoped for: A grass-roots fundraising campaign has raised […]
The big story in the 2016 Republican presidential primary hunt today is an apparent major “factual error” (euphemism for “load of bullshit”) in the bio of Ben Carson, the retired Detroit neurosurgeon who recently overtook Donald Trump in national polls. Politico: Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, […]
It’s getting more colder, so you might as well 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… ► Fox Business Network announced the lineup for the next Republican Presidential debate, which takes place on Tuesday, Nov. […]
New Jersey Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Chris Christie is having himself a “moment.” If you have yet to watch the 6-minute video of Christie talking about addiction — it really is quite mesmerizing — then we’ll let our friends at “The Fix” explain: As part of its “’16 and President” video series, Huffington Post filmed Chris […]
As the Los Angeles Times reports: In the hope of persuading lawmakers to help him close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama is preparing to unveil a plan to shutter the facility and move some of the terrorism suspects held there to U.S. soil. Obama hopes to get Congress to grant him more […]
The Colorado Secretary of State has released early (and unofficial) voter turnout numbers; enjoy the spreadsheet. 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… ► Governor John Hickenlooper has asked the Colorado Supreme Court to […]
As promised late last months when Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced her decision to join a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, Gov. John Hickenlooper formally petitioned the Colorado Supreme Court yesterday to stop Coffman taking legal actions that contravene the policies of his administration. AP reports via CBS4: Gov. John Hickenlooper […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) It’s been a couple months since Colorado Republican Party Chair Steve House appeared on Craig Silverman’s radio show and said, in part, that it would be too unweildly to for Republicans to vote on the GOP presidential candidates at Colorado’s caucuses. Silverman is still talking about House’s comment, arguing just yesterday […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Control of the Colorado Senate swings in the balance next year, with the Democrats hoping to pick up one itsy bitsy state Senate seat and the Republicans clinging to a majority of one itsy bitsy Senate seat. And that seat is most likely in Jefferson County. With this in mind, after […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: As the Denver Post’s John Aguilar reports today, Jeffco school board victors are showing considerable magnanimity to Superintendent Dan McMinimee, at least for now and perhaps in part due to a hefty “golden parachute” worked into his contract signed with the outgoing board: With the dust clearing on a tumultuous recall election in […]
To kick off our recap of 2015’s biggest election in Colorado, last night’s landslide recall of the right-wing majority on the Jefferson County school board, we’re skipping our feckless local media and going straight to the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss: Voters in the Denver suburb of Jefferson County on Tuesday tossed out three conservative members in […]
No more political yard signs…for at least a month or two. 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… ► If you still have your ballot for the 2015 election, here’s a website that will […]
An interesting piece of scuttlebutt just brought to our attention out of Colorado Springs today: former Rep. Larry Liston, who gave up his House seat to unsuccessfully run against Owen Hill for Senate District 10 in 2012, hopes to mount a comeback bid with a primary challenge against his successor in HD-16, Rep. Janak “Dr. Nick” […]
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