(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%
Attorney Stacia Kuhn is the Republican nominee for HD-28 (Lakewood), where the GOP has an uphill battle in trying to defeat incumbent Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen. Kuhn's website sports a really ugly logo that would have been trendy in, say, 1985, but she does have a catchy slogan–and it's already been proven to be effective! […]
As we noted earlier today, 2012 Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney has endorsed "Both Ways Bob" Beauprez for Governor. Romney is now the second 2012 GOP candidate to make an official endorsement in a Colorado race this year, following former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's late April endorsement of Congressman Cory Gardner's U.S. Senate bid. Romney's […]
As FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports, it's a match made in heaven: Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is endorsing Colorado gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, FOX31 Denver is first to report. Romney, who lost the 2012 presidential contest to President Barack Obama, will officially endorse Beauprez in an email that will be sent out later […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Dear Dan Caplis: In case you missed it last week, after you said that Rep. Cory Gardner's "handlers" are keeping him away from you, Mike Littwin tweeted, "Dan, it's him, not you." But you still sound hurt. And that's sad, because you're usually so perky. On your radio show today, you […]
With the Q2 fundraising period behind us, we've updated The Big Line 2014. Just so you know, you know?
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports: State Sen. Greg Brophy, a former gubernatorial hopeful who failed to make the primary ballot at last month’s state GOP assembly, threw his support behind Beauprez during a radio appearance Monday morning. “I want Republicans to win this November and Bob is the best prepared to win and then govern […]
As we have seen, the Colorado Legislature has not met its full public pension obligations since 2003, and now seeks to shift the resultant, accumulated state debt onto public pensioners. These pensioners bear no "market risk" under their state public pension contracts, yet the Colorado Legislature is attempting to retroactively alter the pensioners' contracts, imposing […]
A polling memo from Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen spells out bad news for GOP U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner: A new PPP survey in Colorado finds that Cory Gardner’s negatives have spiked following an early advertising campaign focusing on his record of voting to provide subsidies to oil companies. Key findings from the survey […]
As the Denver Post's Anthony Cotton reported Friday: Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday said the chances of getting lawmakers to reach a deal on local control of oil and gas development and avoid a costly election-year fight over several ballot measures was "about 50-50." …The discussion among oil and gas companies, communities and environmentalists revolves […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Chutzpah. That's the first word that came to mine as I read my email from the Centennial Institute's John Andrews, introducing the Weld County Model of governance. The first sentence was filled with the descriptors "big", "oil-rich", "self-confident", "the birthplace of last year's secession movement". How could I possibly stop myself […]
As the Colorado Statesman's Ernest Luning reports, GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez opens his mouth, and the excrement flows once again–this time on a subject that's personal to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and many of his colleagues in state government. An unusual degree of shamelessness, even for Beauprez, who has a long history of wildly […]
Readers new to this discussion should know that the State of Colorado is currently seeking to break contracts to which the State is a party, specifically public pension contracts. In less than one month, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the resulting lawsuit, Justus v. State. In 2009, a public pension system […]
Back in February, we talked a little about Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo's "Latino outreach program," which coincided with the opening of a campaign office in Pueblo, and the rollout of a new chutzpah-heavy tagline, "¡Viva Tancredo!" As one of the nation's best-known and most controversial public figures on the issue of immigration, Tancredo's "Latino outreach […]
Politico reports, as whatever moral high ground Republicans may have enjoyed in the much-politicized investigation(s) of the 2012 terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya is ceded: A number of Republican candidates and conservative groups have openly used the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya, as a cash grab. And that’s likely […]
We talked earlier about the disastrous anti-Obamacare hearing that Republicans held today in an Energy and Commerce subcommittee (of which Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner is a member). Republicans tried grilling insurance executives over Obamacare in order to pull out some juicy sound bites…but they had a difficult time getting answers to questions that, quite frankly, […]
The June 24 Primary is still several weeks away, though the outcome in some races is becoming easier to call. That looks to be the case with the campaign for the Democratic nomination in HD-24, which will essentially decide the winner of the seat being vacated by Rep. Sue Schafer. Jessie Danielson has outpaced fellow […]
We are absolutely supportive of the efforts of Republicans to bring the 2016 Republican National Convention to Denver. Check that. We are absolutely supportive of the "overall" effort to bring the RNC to Denver in 2016. We are a little bit confused by some of those individual "efforts," so we'll just have to trust our […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Independent takes a look at Rep. Cory Gardner and his political maneuvers around Obamacare, and includes a link to today's House Committee hearing in which Gardner tries desperately to get insurance executives to answer his questions in the most anti-Obamacare fashion possible. You can see from Gardner's five minutes of questioning below […]
As we first reported in this space a week ago, controversial Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was in Denver last week to host a fundraiser for Colorado GOP Attorney General candidate Cynthia Coffman. Brewer, best known for signing Arizona's unconstitutional SB1070 anti-immigrant law, defended her decision on SB1070 at Coffman's fundraiser, saying Democrats have "not enforced [the […]
Leafing through GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez's expenditure report, we found this item, which–to be clear–isn't by itself unusual in the least: At the end of March, Beauprez's campaign paid GOP-aligned consultant firm Magellan Strategies $1,000 for a voter ID phone bank–a very routine service to help candidates identify likely supporters. The funny thing is, Beauprez hired […]
The Washington Post reports today on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's new ad campaign in support of Republican candidates, including Colorado's Cory Gardner and Mike Coffman: Chamber of Commerce: The Chamber will start running 13 new ads today on behalf of Senate and House Republicans in what spokeswoman Blair Holmes described as a "massive campaign." […]
A week ago, we raised an eyebrow over the purported "endorsement" of GOP U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner by the quasi-nonpartisan organization No Labels, which bills itself as "a movement of Democrats, Republicans and independents dedicated to promoting a new politics of problem solving." The endorsement of Cory Gardner by No Labels struck us as odd given Gardner's […]
Fundraising reports for all Colorado statewide candidates are now available, and as we do every quarter, we break down the numbers in our handy chart and provide some context with Winners, Losers, and (our newest category) Disasters. We took an early look at the numbers as they trickled in late yesterday, but below we break […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "Before, whenever we wanted Cory, we made a call, and we got Cory," said KNUS radio-host Dan Caplis on air Monday. "Now, there's always an excuse." Caplis, who's usually big on personal responsibility, blames Gardner's "handlers" for ducking his show, not Gardner himself. "It’s like, 'Wait a second handlers!' Let Cory […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning fact checker Politifact, operated by the Tampa Bay Times, has kept a close eye on ads in this year's U.S. Senate race in Colorado. Having reported in detail on Politifact's hammering of ads against Sen. Mark Udall as factually untrue, we'd be remiss if we didn't note their analysis of Udall's first ad against […]
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