(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
30%↓
20%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(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%
As the Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain reported on Friday afternoon, Gov. Jared Polis signed a consequential piece of gun safety legislation that will result in the end of a longstanding controversial policy, or rather a loophole in policy, that allowed lawmakers and some staff at the Colorado State Capitol building to bypass the Colorado State […]
Readers of Colorado Pols know that Colorado Republicans have no chance at taking back control of the State House of Representatives in 2024 (or, really, in 2026 or 2028). It’s unlikely that Republicans will even be able to dent the current 46-19 Democratic advantage in the House when ballots are counted in November, but they […]
[NOTE: We’ll update this space to continue discussing Thursday’s historic verdict in New York that made Donald Trump the first former President in American history to become a convicted felon.] The verdict is in, and the whining has begun. —– He’s #1! He’s #1! —– As The Washington Post reports, Trump is getting an outpouring […]
UPDATE #2: Gov. Jared Polis responds: No one is above the law. Coloradans have faith in our justice system and the guilty convictions from a jury of his peers show the former President lacks the moral capacity to lead our country. Rep. Diana DeGette: The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn. No […]
Colorado Republican Party vice-chair Hope Scheppelman makes good on the state party’s controversial primary endorsement in CO-03 of former state Rep. “Raging” Ron Hanks, promoting a “Trump MAGA Truck Rally” starring Hanks this Saturday in Grand Junction: Hanks’ opponent Jeff Hurd, who won’t even commit to voting for Trump much less fronting a MAGA truck […]
“Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.” If you don’t speak Latin — and there’s really know reason you should — you might not recognize that this is a statement that should seem quite familiar. The English version is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.” […]
UPDATE: A reader helpfully notes that the Tavern 1301 is in the same building as the Historic Cow Palace Inn, which in theory would provide the accommodations needed to sleep off a night of hard celebrating getting off probation instead of racing the cops back home. Drink up, we guess? —– If you find yourself […]
As the Washington Post reports, the jury in the New York criminal trial against ex-President Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records to conceal a “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels is now deliberating the historic case: The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial began deliberating Wednesday morning in the first criminal […]
As 9NEWS reported yesterday evening, former 2020 coup plotter and member of Donald Trump’s “Elite Strike Force” legal team that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election Jenna Ellis accepted a second disciplinary agreement from the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel following Ellis’ guilty plea to a felony charge […]
Republican State Rep. Ryan Armagost of Larimer County was one of the most valuable members of the Democratic caucus during the 2024 legislative session thanks to his uncanny ability to barf out half-baked talking points on issues such as the GOP’s perplexing attempt to impeach Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Armagost is also quite the […]
May 21, 2024. We marked it down for you last week: The day that the Colorado Republican Party died. You’ll recall that day as the one in which the Colorado Republican Party sent out an official email calling on all Colorado Republicans to remove their children from public schools post-haste. “All Colorado parents should be […]
Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) was first elected to Congress in 2018 and just turned 40 this month. His resume is already that of someone much older, and national news outlets are increasingly figuring out what Colorado has known for awhile now: Neguse is a rising star. Neguse was just 36-years-old when he served as […]
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reported over the weekend on an endorsement anyone could have predicted as the conservative freakroots of the Colorado Republican Party coalesce around the official party-endorsed slate in the upcoming June 25th primary: former presidential candidate and congressman Tom Tancredo, who defined the ragged outer limits of […]
Political campaigns have always been a fascinating mix of art and science when it comes to figuring out how to both influence and catch the attention of potential voters. Honing a message and finding the right talking points can be a difficult process, though there are some decisions that should be easy (like not placing […]
One of carpetbagging-for-dear-life Rep. Lauren Boebert’s most criticized habits in her going on four years in Congress representing the Western Slope has been her first-audacious and now doggedly insistent taking of credit with constituents in her soon-to-be former district for projects that Boebert voted against–the overwhelming majority of votes in her first term, and even […]
Despite several challengers over the years, the owner of “Worst Political Ad in Modern Colorado History” has continued to hold that imaginary title since 2006. You know the one… That’s former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, whose infamous 2006 campaign ad showed him talking to the camera while literally standing next to a horse’s ass. […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Oh, look! President Biden also attempted to kill…President Biden? This comes via a White House Correspondent for Fox News, no less: Perhaps now we can turn our attention to the next stupid thing from MAGAland. —– UPDATE: The ex-President leans in to the newest Big Lie: This feels like a very, very bad […]
Here’s a simple question: How many times in your life have you “accidentally” used language similar to the rhetoric familiar to Nazi Germany and the Third Reich? We’re guessing the most common answer would be “never.” Talking like a Nazi isn’t at all similar to mistakenly hitting “reply all” on an email. Heck, most people […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with six months left to go until the 2024 election, we look at the state of the U.S. House, the Senate, and the Presidential race that will literally determine the course of American and probably global history. Cool! Here in Colorado we have dueling slates of Republicans; […]
As 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark reported last night, the Colorado Republican Party sent out an email blast yesterday that if we’re to take it at face value completely resets the debate over education policy in Colorado, making claims and recommendations so far from the mainstream no matter what your views on public education may be that […]
As the Aurora Sentinel reports, the city’s representative in Congress Rep. Jason Crow is in the district this week touting funding he secured through earmarks for important local programs, including $3 million for the Aurora Central Library: Aurora library officials touted a $3 million congressional appropriations contribution, funding a project to provide a new and […]
As NBC News reports, the witness testimony phase of the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump for allegedly covering up a “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels is over, and closing arguments will get underway after the upcoming Memorial Day weekend: Judge Merchan explains that the jury won’t return to court until […]
The outcome of the 2022 race for Governor in Colorado did not hinge on Republican Heidi Ganahl’s bizarre obsession with the ridiculous idea that public schools in Colorado were infested with children dressed up as animals (which she referred to as “furries“). But it certainly didn’t help her cause — and the catshit craziness continues […]
After Rep. Lauren Boebert’s field trip last Thursday to New York City, lending a morale hand to ex-President Donald Trump as the trial over Trump’s cover-up of a “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels continues, the drama continued as the gaggle returned to Washington late in the day having missed important votes. As […]
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