(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%
Republican Ken Buck has been a pretty bad candidate for the U.S. Senate up until this point, which is why he has agreed to drop out of the race and run for the now-open House seat in CD-4. But it would be so un-Buck like to just walk of the statewide stage without missing a […]
Okay, so let's get this straight…The Republican Party is going to defeat Sen. Mark Udall with Rep. Cory Gardner? The GOP thinks their best chance in 2014 is running an anti-incumbent message through an incumbent member of Congress — which is now the most disliked group of individuals in the history of public polling? Huh?!? […]
UPDATE #4: Colorado Democratic Party chairman Rick Palacio: "Given Republicans' back room wheeling and dealing, Coloradans will see that Cory Gardner is simply a Ken Buck-radical who is neck deep in Washington sleaze. Gardner is just another reckless House Republican when it comes to dismantling Social Security and Medicare, banning abortion and many types of […]
A particular detail from last night's GOP U.S. Senate primary debate worth revisiting, as the Durango Herald's Joe Hanel caught but apparently no other press coverage did: Buck, Hill and Stephens all said they supported the personhood amendment on the 2012 ballot, which would have declared that human life begins at conception – a legal change […]
Just as we did with last week's debate among Republican candidates for Governor, Colorado Pols will be live-blogging the GOP debate among U.S. Senate candidates. *IMPORTANT NOTE: Unless indicated by quotations, everything below is paraphrased in the interest of time. FINAL ANALYSIS: There was quite a contrast among the main contenders here (Buck, Hill, and […]
Via Twitter, as seen on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today. Please shield the eyes of impressionable, nerdy children: Reaction from the peanut gallery was swift and brutal: Oh no Jared Polis no pic.twitter.com/iINuciCOre — Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) February 25, 2014 Dennis Tang at GQ: Worst ever? Yeah, right, how bad […]
As we discussed yesterday, the "Draft Beauprez" nonsense drummed up by Erick Erickson on his conservative blog Red State likely means that Republican Bob Beauprez really and truly is about to jump into the race for Governor; pretending to "draft" a candidate is one of the oldest tricks in the political playbook. Of course, the […]
UPDATE #3: Stokols—Amy Stephens stoutly defended the health insurance exchange from fellow Republican detractors before departing today's hearing; the final vote on House Bill 14-1192 has been postponed until Stephens can be present to vote. [As Rep. Janak] Joshi presented the bill, Stephens fired away with tough questions and offered a full-throated defense of the bill that created […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On KNUS' Kelley and Company a few weeks ago, Rep. Cory Gardner said: Gardner (@ 1:30): "I would gladly bring Barack Obama and take him around the state of Colorado, introduce him to the 335,000 Coloradans who lost their health insurance thanks to Barack Obama's bill that Mark Udall passed." Gardner […]
We've received word from several credible sources that none other than GOP uberstrategist Karl Rove was in Denver last Friday night, holding a fundraiser at Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel for embattled GOP Rep. Mike Coffman. It's interesting, since we can't find any information about this event at all–even the national government transparency watchdog Sunlight Foundation has no […]
Democrats Michael Hancock and John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver and former Denver Mayor-turned Governor of Colorado respectively, reach across the aisle in hope of bringing home the lucrative economic boost offered by the Republican National Convention in 2016.
In another edition of our long-running feature, "At Least They're Not Your Legislators," we take you to Arizona, where…well, we'll let CNN explain: Arizona's Legislature has passed a controversial bill that would allow business owners, as long as they assert their religious beliefs, to deny service to gay and lesbian customers. The bill, which the […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels: “I heard he was thinking about it again,” said Tancredo. “I told him to get in. He is a friend and a good guy.” Tancredo and Beauprez served together in Congress. Despite their friendship, Tancredo said he never said he would drop out of the crowded GOP race if […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols kicks off coverage from this weekend's session of the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission: Colorado will be the first state in the country to regulate emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, as part of new air quality rules for the state’s booming oil and gas industry that were finalized on […]
After having a field day last Friday with a dreadfully inaccurate health care story on the front page of the Denver Post by freelance reporter Arthur Kane, we woke up this Sunday morning expecting the next in a series of such "exposés," and another day ripping it into bite-size pieces with help from our astute fact-checking readers. Mr. […]
We haven't seen much publicity for this, but the next Denver Post GOP primary debate is coming up next Tuesday evening, featuring the large field of candidates vying for the chance to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in November. The bar for participating in this primary debate appears pretty low, with minor candidates […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post appears to be making corrections to this story from the version you see below, which is the version that appeared in the print edition today. But as of now they appear to have only made it more confusing. According to the story as it reads now, the insurance buyer cited below […]
Republican state Sen. Randy Baumgardner and his mustache have been running for the U.S. Senate since last July, but we've never listed him among the top challengers on our Big Line because he's not really doing anything. The only difference between Baumgardner and the other people in the picture at right is that Randy has […]
The story of Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, and subsequent battle with the powerful bipartisan Joint Budget Committee seeking taxpayer funds to cover it, escalated dramatically this week. As the Denver Post's Lynn Bartels reports: A simmering feud between Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler and the Joint Budget Committee erupted again this […]
Following the first Republican Gubernatorial debate earlier this week (which we live-blogged), we're shuffling the deck at the top of the Governor Line. While Tom Tancredo and Scott Gessler declined to attend the debate, we still see them as the frontrunners for the GOP nomination. But the second tier has a new leader: Sen. Greg […]
UPDATE: The Chieftain just updated their story with a video of an interview with the sign-holding man you see below, former Pueblo council member Al Gurule. It appears from this video that the signs around Tom Tancredo in the Chieftain's photo that say "RACIST," which we refer to below, were held by Tancredo supporters attempting to […]
The new conservative members of the Jefferson County School Board have created such a stir (and not in a good way) that a group of parents and community leaders has formed a new organization to keep the public informed about the Board's actions. From the Denver Post: Its mission is to "communicate to the community […]
As the Denver Post's Lynn Bartels reports, nailing GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Brophy on a false statement from Tuesday night's debate: Republican state Sen. Greg Brophy incorrectly asserted in a gubernatorial debate Tuesday that the state is violating the constitution by paying for abortions and "that needs to stop." The Colorado Department of Public Health and […]
(The stupid! It burns! – promoted by Colorado Pols) THURSDAY POLS UPDATE: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense released the following statement today: "As a concealed-carry permit holder, Rep. Wright should understand the risks of leaving a loaded gun unattended. On any given day there are classes of school-aged children touring the Capitol. And we all […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post reports: The lawsuit filed Wednesday names Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver City Clerk Debra Johnson as defendants. Currently Colorado permits civil unions between gay couples, but the Colorado constitution bans gay marriage… Although some states have declined to defend against similar lawsuits challenging same-sex marriage bans, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers […]
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