(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%
Here's a brief but important clip of video from yesterday's interview by Brandon Rittiman of 9NEWS of once-and-future GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez: Transcript: RITTIMAN: Have you ever supported Personhood, and do you now? BEAUPREZ: No, I've got a 100% pro-life voting record, as you probably know. So I'm very much pro-life. But Personhood, uh, […]
Media Matters via Mike Littwin at the Colorado Independent: National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent is fundraising for Republican Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo weeks after Texas gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott caused a firestorm of controversy for campaigning with Nugent after the NRA figurehead made a racist comment about President Obama. According to a March […]
(More on the "$10,000 Obamacare deductible" fiction – promoted by Colorado Pols) In his farewell column in The Denver Post years ago, the great food writer John Kessler wrote: "You've kept me honest through numerous gaffes. You let me know when my Chinese Orange Chicken recipe was missing a key ingredient (chicken)" Mistakes are part […]
As the Denver Post's Jason Blevins reported yesterday: Rocky Mountain National Park ranked as the sixth-biggest loser among the parks and monuments shuttered during the federal government's closure last fall. The 16-day shutdown cost Colorado's busiest national park $10.9 million, with visitation plunging 73 percent in October compared with the previous three Octobers, according to […]
From FOX 31's Eli Stokols: Now, Udall’s campaign is quickly shifting gears, going on offense and trying to define Gardner early in the race as someone whose conservative voting record is outside the mainstream — more conservative even than Ken Buck, one of the former GOP Senate hopefuls now planning to run for Gardner’s House […]
We've updated The Big Line to reflect a wacky week that saw major changes to the races for U.S. Senate, Governor, and CD-4. We expect to be changing the CD-4 Line quite frequently in the coming days as more potential candidates consider their options. Your opinions, as always, are welcome in the comments…
In the eight years since former Congressman Bob Beauprez's last political campaign, he has kept busy authoring a political blog, A Line of Sight, and making the rounds of various conservative talk-show and online media outlets. During the last few years, as we probably don't need to remind our longtime readers, rhetoric from the "Tea […]
7NEWS reports–yet another Colorado politician has apparently committed the cardinal sin of using mountains in campaign imagery that aren't actually located in the state of Colorado. Naturally, the name of that politician is Bob Beauprez. Tuesday morning, the campaign for Bob Beauprez for Governor sent out a news release with the headline Beauprez Launches Campaign […]
(The headline writes itself – promoted by Colorado Pols) Media figures are trying to figure out if newly recycled gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez will try both ways to get on the GOP primary ballot — through the caucuses and petition process. On KHOW's Mandy Connell Show this morning, Beauprez said he'll petition on the ballot, […]
UPDATE #3: FOX 31's Eli Stokols: State Rep. Tim Dore, R-Elizabeth, confirmed Monday that he was still thinking about a run; and Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, is rumored to be weighing a campaign in the Fourth C.D., which now includes a good chunk of his home turf in Douglas County, although another GOP lawmaker […]
Back in January, Democratic Rep. Sue Schafer made a surprising announcement that she would not be running for re-election for a final term in HD-24. Two Democrats quickly jumped into the race to succeed Schaffer in a district that has historically been decided in a Democratic primary, and heading into Tuesday's caucuses, both candidates are […]
UPDATE: Release from House Democrats, Rep. Mike Foote's "Jessica's Law" passes unanimously: “As a deputy district attorney, I have prosecuted some of these crimes, and I have seen how devastating they can be for victims and their families,” Rep. Foote said. “I want to help them heal by knowing that Colorado has no tolerance for those […]
TUESDAY UPDATE: Correcting one detail below, multiple sources reporting today that Bob Beauprez will look to petition onto the primary ballot–not seek the nomination via the GOP assembly process. Beauprez will seek both routes to the GOP nomination, befitting someone nicknamed "Both Ways." —– UPDATE #3: It's official: per the Secretary of State's office, Bob Beauprez has […]
A press release from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Steve Israel today acknowledges what you already know about Colorado's 6th Congressional District race, listing Colorado's 2014 marquee congressional battle in the first round of the DCCC's "Red to Blue" program. In total, 35 districts are part of the initial list in the Red to Blue […]
Just in from the Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby, Rep. Jared Wright is officially one-and-done: Rep. Jared Wright is dropping out of his race for re-election, and is instead endorsing his GOP opponent, Yeulin Willett, the freshman legislator announced at a hastily called press conference today. So ends one of the shorter legislative careers […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Victor Head, "Pueblo Plumber", recall proponent, and County Clerk candidate, has been lying again, and digging through trash for ballots to make the case that only he can prevent election fraud. HB1128 , Reduce Voter Identity Theft In the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee of the Colorado legislature, on […]
From FOX 31's Eli Stokols: Bob Beauprez, the former congressman and 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate, is preparing to enter the governor’s race next Monday, multiple sources confirm to FOX31 Denver. Beauprez, who’s been hinting at a run for weeks and hoping to reach a deal for Tom Tancredo to leave the race, has been telling […]
The last three days have been some of the most dramatic in recent Colorado political history, with major changes affecting the races for the U.S. Senate, Colorado's 4th Congressional District, and very likely the Colorado gubernatorial race. The entry of Rep. Cory Gardner into the Senate race, which prompted the pre-arranged exit of erstwhile frontrunner Ken Buck and […]
Our friends at "The Fix" run down the Top 10 Republican candidates for President at this stage of the game, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul ends up at the top of the list: To hear Republicans who follow these sorts of things closely, there are actually two primaries for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The […]
As the Broomfield Enterprise's Megan Quinn reports: A Broomfield judge has upheld the results of the embattled Nov. 5 election. Judge Chris Melonakis released his decision Thursday evening. In his decision, he said Broomfield acted in good faith when conducting the election and that the results should not be tossed out… Though the election was […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Radio host Jimmy Sengenberger broke news on his Velocity Radio show yesterday, when his guest Scott Gessler said he's "pretty confident" Bob Beauprez will enter the gubernatorial race, and Gessler pointed out that Beauprez ran a "pretty disastrous" campaign in 2006. Gessler (@1 hour 21 min): “I’ve heard the same thing. […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In a scoop that deserves more media attention, KOA's morning drive show, Colorado Morning News, broke news this morning when Tom Tancredo told co-hosts April Zesbaugh and Steffan Tubbs that Bob Beauprez told Tancredo during a conversation Saturday that Beauprez will be running for governor. Tancredo told KOA that he will […]
The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic offers solid analysis today of the entry of Congressman Cory Gardner into the 2014 U.S. Senate race. As we began working through yesterday, once the elation among Republicans that an incumbent member of Congress will take on incumbent Democrat Mark Udall wears off, serious questions about the viability of Gardner as […]
UPDATE 5:30PM: Multiple sources now confirming Scott Renfroe will indeed challenge Ken Buck for the CD-4 GOP nomination. —– UPDATE: Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post Tweets that state Rep. Tim Dore may also consider a run for CD-4 against Ken Buck. And from Lynn Bartels: Other names in CD4: Weld Co Comm. Sean Conway, gov of […]
The news is certainly not unexpected after yesterday's flurry of activity, but Rep. Amy Stephens lays on the bullshit pretty thick with Lynn Bartels of the Denver Post: State Rep. Amy Stephens was in the midst of a fundraiser Monday night for her Senate bid when she got a text message from her close friend, […]
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