(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 Colorado Libertarian Party is dead. Long live the Colorado Libertarian Party. As Seth Klamann reports for The Denver Post, the CLP’s weird quasi-alliance with the Colorado Republican Party that led to a strange “Libertarian Pledge” is now a thing of the past: Two weeks ago, the leadership of the Libertarian Party of Colorado sued […]
UPDATE: As the Denver Post reports: Premiums will double next year for Coloradans who buy their health insurance on the state’s individual market, with higher-income families facing increases of $10,000 or more, the Colorado Division of Insurance announced Monday. [Pols emphasis] Marketplace customers face a double hit this year. The monthly “sticker price” of health […]
CBS4 Denver’s Olivia Young reports on one of the rarest stories in Colorado politics, despite the imagined specter of it taking place rampantly being an article of faith among election-denying MAGA Republicans: a real-life case of someone filling out a mail ballot not addressed to themselves, forging the signature of the registered voter that ballot […]
Last week we dug through the campaign finance reports for major races in Colorado in 2026, and while we provided some brief analysis for every race, we thought it would be worthwhile to look a little closer at the top contest on the ballot: The open seat for Governor. Here’s how the fundraising numbers compare […]
As AP’s Josh Funk and Sara Raza report, President Donald Trump’s latest idea to prop up his friend and ideological touchstone President Javier Milei of Argentina, following a $20 billion bailout of Milei’s controversial economic experimentation, is facing hard pushback from Trump’s usual friends in the beef industry–also known as the state of Colorado’s biggest […]
The pain from the ongoing, and seemingly endless, federal government shutdown continues to take a heavy toll on Coloradans. According to a new report from Center for American Progress, only 24 percent of National Park Service staff, 51 percent of U.S. Forest Service staff, and 65 percent of Bureau of Land Management employees remain on […]
The Colorado Secretary of State’s office has released the first ballot return numbers for the 2025 election: For as much as Republicans complain about mail balloting, it’s pretty clear that Coloradans love the process. All of 62 people statewide have voted in person thus far. One of the more interesting set of numbers comes from […]
The “Gabe Evans Tour of Destruction” continues. If freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) stops by your business/nonprofit for a photo op, it usually means that you are in deep trouble. Evans often shows up at local venues when a policy that he supported in Congress is going to cause major problems for said organization. […]
The first federal government shutdown since 2018 is now in its fourth week. There is still no apparent end in sight. Here’s the latest in our weekly-ish shutdown updates, beginning with some staggering new poll numbers from The Associated Press: About 6 in 10 Americans are “extremely” or “very” concerned about their health costs going […]
As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, a long-rumored Independent candidate in Colorado Springs has jumped into the race for Congress against incumbent Republican Rep. Jeff Crank: Army combat veteran and author Matt Cavanaugh on Tuesday launched an independent bid to challenge first-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in […]
Last Saturday, a group of Republicans including the Boulder County Republicans and fringe-right “MAGA King” Trent Leisy held a debate featuring a fair number of the baker’s dozen-plus Republicans who have thrown their hat in the ring to run for the party’s forlorn-hope nomination to be the next governor of Colorado. The two candidates present […]
As ABC News reports, it’s a triumph of loyalty over the rule of law that would have been unthinkable before Donald Trump: President Donald Trump said Friday evening he has signed a commutation releasing scandal-plagued former congressman George Santos from prison “immediately.” Santos, 37, was less than three months into serving a seven-year sentence in […]
Saturday’s No Kings Day protest in Denver and cities across the state and nation brought out millions of people to, with only limited exceptions, peacefully and responsibly demonstrate their displeasure with the direction of the country under Maximum President Donald Trump. Early estimates of seven million nationwide would make these the biggest protests since the […]
The second big “No Kings Day” protest took place on Saturday and attracted an estimated 7 million people across the country . The vast majority of protestors peacefully demonstrated in a manner that defied the silly Republican talking points that you were a “terrorist” or “hate America“; this sort of public protest is exactly what […]
We have been amused by “ministry leader” Victor Marx — the newest entry into the Republican field of candidates hoping to become Colorado’s next Governor — so much so that we were inspired to create a regular new feature on Colorado Pols. Marx has a robust social media following anchored by a podcast and regular speaking appearances on right-wing […]
awesome + uniting Denver Broncos win defensive slugfest in London to leave New York Jets as only winless team in NFL Students march through Denver to celebrate ‘White Cane Day’ Colorado records lowest obesity rate in the U.S. awesome + controversy UFO? Military operation? Questions surround balloon seen above Colorado mountains Crowds gather across Colorado […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Wednesday was the deadline for most campaigns to submit Q3 (July – September) fundraising reports. The last fundraising quarter of the year is often much weaker for candidates because of the holiday season, so Q3 numbers can offer the best look at a campaign’s finances until early next year. We’ll run down the […]
An email blast from Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado this morning warns of the approval of the ballot title for a new flavor of the “Personhood” abortion ban ballot measures that Colorado voters have rejected at the polls repeatedly despite nearly 20 years of fruitlessly trying: Yesterday, the Colorado Title Board approved a title for an […]
As the Denver Post’s Lauren Pennington reports, this upcoming Saturday’s reprise of the “No Kings Day” protest from the summer in Denver and across the country is shaping up bigly: Thousands of people are expected to march through downtown Denver this weekend as a second wave of “No Kings” protests sweeps across the country. The […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Federal Government Shutdown enters its second-ish week and Democrats seem to have the upper hand, at least so far. Then, can puppy-killer DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her masked goons defeat an army of grannies with ukeleles and people in inflatable costumes in war-raveged Portland, Oregon? Even though 2026 […]
Over the summer, America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans developed a routine of holding photo-ops at locations in his district that were directly affected by adverse votes Evans himself took, principally with the passage of the “We’re All Going To Die Act” federal budget bill, as well as retaliation by the Trump administration against […]
We have been amused by “ministry leader” Victor Marx — the newest entry into the Republican field of candidates hoping to become Colorado’s next Governor — so much so that we were inspired to create a regular new feature on Colorado Pols. Marx has a robust social media following anchored by a podcast and regular speaking appearances on right-wing […]
Every election cycle brings its share of gadfly candidates, from the inexplicable first-timers to those who have run again and again (we’re looking at you, Greg Lopez). Thus far the 2026 election cycle has dozens upon dozens of candidates seeking all manner of political office. If history is any guide, 75% of these candidates will […]
As the ongoing shutdown of the federal government’s effects are felt across the economy, the Trump administration has responded in part by directing normally non-political government agencies to name and blame Democrats as political retribution that they hope the public will echo–which hasn’t happened so far, with the public overwhelmingly blaming Republicans for the shutdown, […]
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