(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%
It is always amusing, and somewhat irritating, when national pundits decide to take a gander at political races in Colorado with very little understanding of what is actually possible plausible in our state. The dead giveaway that a national outlet is clueless about Colorado is when they start mentioning candidates for higher office based solely […]
UPDATE: Per the Colorado Statesman's Peter Marcus, Boulder DA Stan Garnett leans against running: “I would like to run for state office again at some point; this is not a good time for me personally,” he said. “And I also don’t want the people of Boulder County to think that I’m always turning around and […]
It's almost too good to be true (although Lynn Bartels reported it first, in 2011, it's worth resurfacing now): Embattled former presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann, the Minnesota Congressional Representative taking heat from an ethics investigation, whistle-blowing former staff, and more, got one of her closest staff members from none other than Marilyn Musgrave. The latter […]
Reprinted with permission from the Checks & Balances Project: My friends at the Checks and Balances Project wandered away without their codes and keys…they asked me to share this with the readers of ColoradoPols.com It should come as no surprise that in the 2013 legislative session alone, the oil and gas industry spent $1.06 […]
Washington Post political blog The Fix has released a list, generated from nominations through the blog, Twitter, and Facebook, of the best, most-read political reporters in all 50 states. Some of our favorites here made Colorado's list: Congrats to the few, the proud, the over-caffeinated, exhausted, and still enthusiastic, Colorado's best political reporters! Special shout-out to Peter […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post's Joey Bunch reports–catch the fever! Gessler said he expects to make a final decision in one to three months. He could still relaunch his secretary of state campaign, if he finds the governor's race isn't a good fit, he said. We're guessing that's not going to be their slogan. Seriously folks, […]
The New York Times' report yesterday, after the fun we've had over the years we're obliged to note: Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican whose status as a leading Tea Party voice in Congress has faded in the wake of a failed bid for president and a widening investigation into her campaign spending, said Wednesday […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols with a late-breaking story today: Dave Kopel, the Independence Institute’s resident Second Amendment expert, is the lead attorney on the lawsuit. And FOX31 Denver has found that Kopel has received $1.39 million in grant money from the N.R.A. Civil Rights Defense Fund between 2004 and 2011. The group continues to fund […]
Last week the Denver teachers union (DCTA: Denver Classroom Teachers Association) announced its first wave of endorsements for the 2013 campaign season. And as Ed News Colorado reports, there was one particularly notable exception: The Denver teachers union isn’t wasting time getting ready for the November election, opting to announce three endorsements four months earlier […]
UPDATE: AP has now posted a major correction to the story this post is based on: In a story May 28 about Democrats facing recall efforts, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a conservative consultant said out-of-state donors helped fund her donation to a potential recall of the president of the Colorado State Senate. Laura Carno […]
Over the weekend, the editorial board of the Denver Post weighed in on the Gubernatorial candidacy of Republican Tom Tancredo, who surprised many last week by throwing his hat in the ring for 2014. And what did the Post have to say? Well, they're about as excited for another Tancredo candidacy as a kid who […]
UPDATE: FOX 31's Eli Stokols: The Republican field, at the moment, is nonexistent. And FOX31 Denver has learned that other would-be candidates who Republicans in Washington are trying to recruit are also saying no. “They’re thinking outside the box, but they’re striking out in trying to find a Major League candidate to run against Udall,” […]
The Washington Post reported this weekend, and we wanted to be sure got a mention: The Republican Party has changed so drastically in recent years, the current GOP wouldn’t welcome the likes of Ronald Reagan, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said Sunday. The current GOP ought to be “closed for repairs” because it lacks […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Rep. Cory Gardner said on the radio Thursday that he and other House Republicans will act like a giant fence and stop the Senate's bipartisan immigration bill from becoming law, unless it's changed from its current form. Any journalists who caught the interview would have to agree that Gardner's tough-guy tone […]
Setting the mood in a story last week from the Loveland Reporter-Herald: "The Democrats in the Legislature? Their three buzzwords were cooperation, collaboration and consensus," Gessler said. "Remember that? And what did we get? … They used to accuse Republicans of only caring about God, guns and gays. And what did the Democrats come up […]
UPDATE: FOX 31's Eli Stokols, who had the story first: “This ruling is a devastating blow to the children of Colorado,” said Kathy Gebhardt, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, in a statement to FOX31 Denver Monday. “Today the Court closed its doors to the children of Colorado. The court has bowed out, so the constitution […]
An eventful week in Colorado politics began with the entry of a joke GOP candidate into the Colorado gubernatorial field, which if anything helped underscore the GOP's lack of candidates for this race–followed by that candidate's swift and unceremonious exit as two very well-known Republican political commodities filed to enter the race for the right […]
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo is running for Governor again after a failed bid in 2010, but there's a difference: He's back to being a registered Republican. In 2010, Tancredo ran for Governor as the official candidate of the American Constitution Party. If he wins the Republican nomination for Governor in 2014, would Tancredo be the […]
We received an announcement a short while ago from Steve Laffey, the Rhode Island transplant who briefly entertained the whimsical notion of running for governor of Colorado this week. On account of Laffey being ideologically in sync with Tom Tancredo—thanks for letting sane Colorado voters know this prior to running for anything else, Mr. Laffey–he'll […]
9NEWS reports in the aftermath of Tom Tancredo's announcement yesterday that he will run for governor in 2014, which took place on the KHOW 630AM talk show hosted by longtime Denver radio personality Peter Boyles: Peter Boyles, a well-known and sometimes-controversial radio host in Denver for 630 KHOW, will be off the air Friday after a […]
With a H/T to Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post, supporters of Senate President John Morse are circulating a new video, reportedly shot this week, of a paid circulator for the recall petition against Morse attempting to convince someone to sign it. Pretty much entirely by making stuff up.
–Rush Limbaugh's Pearls of Wisdom, yesterday
UPDATE #3: The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels: Secretary of State Gessler filed paperwork to run for governor on Thursday, two days after reimbursing the state nearly $1,300 for a political trip to Florida last year. His political director, Rory McShane, said Gessler's decision to reimburse the money — which led to an ethics complaint against […]
THURSDAY UPDATE #2: Media Matters weighs in with gusto: Kopel is not a reputable source of information in the gun policy debate. [Pols emphasis] During a December 2012 appearance on CNN to discuss a high-profile shooting involving an NFL player, Kopel falsely claimed that there is no link between gun availability and homicide rates, even though […]
As the Denver Post's Kurtis Lee reported late last night: Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, known for his strong stances on immigration, said late Wednesday night he plans to formally announce a run for governor on a conservative talk radio show Thursday. “This Dunlap thing is the last straw,” said Tancredo in a message. As […]
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