(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%
We’ve been saying for months that the Tea Party is killing Republicans, and there’s no better current example of that problem than the one that faces Speaker of the House John Boehner. From CNN: Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, said Boehner “has a big headache inside […]
Reports Politico, poor Sen. Harry Reid just can’t get a break: Minority Leader Mitch McConnell joined fellow Republicans critical of Majority Leader Harry Reid’s plan to raise the debt ceiling, calling it “another attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people.” The Senate’s top Republican didn’t outline any specific objections to […]
Democratic Rep. David Wu announced his resignation today, one day after saying that he would not run for re-election in 2012 because of a scandal involving an “unwanted sexual encounter.” We kind of had a feeling that this happen eventually — ever since pictures first popped up showing Wu in a weird tiger costume (it […]
From The Durango Herald: Senior legislators declined to get involved Monday in a lawsuit that claims the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights violated the U.S. Constitution. Speaker of the House Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, wanted the Legislature’s Executive Committee to oppose the lawsuit, but his idea deadlocked on a 3-3 tie, with Democrats opposing him. Five […]
From C-SPAN: President Obama will address the nation at 9 pm ET tonight. His address comes as the Senate and the House progress on different plans on lifting the debt ceiling. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a proposal to lift the $14.3 trillion dollar debt ceiling through 2012. It includes $2.7 trillion in […]
Politico–looks like we might have an idea why Rep. David Wu, Democrat of Oregon went nuts last fall (photo right), after which much of his staff quit mysteriously. The photo alone was enough to earn Rep. Wu a spot in our ongoing series, “At Least He’s Not Your Congressman.” As it turns out, not really […]
The Los Angeles Times updates on debt-ceiling negotiations this weekend: Picking up the pieces after the latest round of debt negotiations imploded, congressional leaders met Saturday with President Obama and began work on a Republican-backed plan to cut spending by roughly $3 trillion over 10 years in exchange for their vote to raise the debt […]
If Republicans succeed in tanking the economy this year by forcing the country into default, perverse as it may seem, the likely result could be to achieve their dream of making Obama a one-term president. So let’s assume that during a deepening recession, Obama loses his job next year. I would hope that America doesn’t […]
There’s been an interesting turn of events in the up-to-now uncontroversial state legislative reapportionment committee process, as reported by a number of outlets in the previous few days. The last of seven regional House and Senate maps were initially approved this week. The state legislative reapportionment process has drawn much less interest than the court-bound […]
From our friends at “The Fix“: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the talk of the 2012 Republican presidential race at the moment but, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll, he fares no better in a head-to-head matchup with President Obama than several longer-shot candidates in the field. Perry trails Obama 53 percent to 40 […]
The Colorado AFL-CIO today released its “2011 Working Families Scorecard,” the first time that the labor organization has released its legislative scorecard to the general public. It should come as no surprise that Democrats generally rated better than Republicans on legislation tracked by the AFL-CIO (17 Senate Democrats and 20 House Democrats received 100% scores). […]
Yesterday The Pueblo Chieftain had an odd article by the normally more-astute Peter Roper that was a rundown of Republican Rep. Scott Tipton’s second quarter fundraising efforts. See if you see the strangeness: U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton isn’t wasting any time in pulling together a campaign warchest for his 2012 re-election bid to hold the […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Now, if this were Bill Owens saying this about Bush, we’d have flashing neon lights and a front-pager immediately. Just thought I’d point out that the very pragmatic and intelligent Governor Hickenlooper had this to say to Politico… Asked whether Obama would hold Colorado if the election were held […]
( – promoted by c rork) President Obama nominated Richard Cordray to be the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday. The move shocked some liberal activists who had hoped that Elizabeth Warren, who had envisioned and created the agency, would become its de facto leader. Cordray was handpicked by Warren to become […]
President Obama nominated Rob Cordray to be the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday. The move shocked some liberal activists who had hoped that Elizabeth Warren, who had envisioned and helped create the agency, would become its de facto leader. Cordray was handpicked by Warren to become the head of the agency’s […]
One of the quirks that come in a redistricting year is that the Federal Election Commission is a bit lax on requiring candidates seeking a Congressional office to actually state which office they plan to run for. Take, for example, the case of Democrat Perry Haney, a wealthy Greenwood Village chiropractor who wants to run […]
As the Associated Press reports, all this bipartisan happy talk about “Grand Bargains” and “backup plans” is meeting a stone wall called the “Tea Party”–and freshmen members of Congress elected in the 2010 Republican wave are trapped between their unrealistic promises to an unreasonable fringe, and the inevitable failure to fulfill them: Solid backing of […]
More polling results from ABC News/Washington Post show — once again — that House Republicans are in deep trouble in their positioning. From our friends at “The Fix“: When asked for their opinions on a wide range of possible ways to bring down the national debt, raising taxes on the wealthy – in a variety […]
Politico’s Jennifer Epstein and Carrie Budoff Brown update: In an appearance in the White House briefing room, Obama urged congressional leaders to embrace the “Gang of Six” proposal, which would slash the deficit by $3.7 trillion over 10 years, in part by raising about $1 trillion in new revenue. “We have a Democratic president and […]
Two of Colorado’s more colorful civic personalities, state Sen. Shawn Mitchell and columnist Mike Littwin, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News and now writing for the Denver newspaper, will debate the federal debt-ceiling extension impasse tomorrow night. Moderated by our friend Eli Stokols of FOX 31: The debate, which I’m scheduled to moderate — perhaps […]
(The moral of the story? Double-check your Tweets. And don’t lie. – promoted by Colorado Pols) Earlier this month, an aide to Rep. Scott Tipton accidentally Tweeted a photo of a chihuahua with hair eerily similar to Tipton’s, instead of an article attacking the evil stimulus. Since Tipton has a marked tendency to say factually […]
New polling results from Zogby show that Republicans are not on the side of most Americans when it comes to the debt ceiling debate — no surprise, as previous polling has indicated: A small majority (52%) of likely voters now agree Congress should raise the debt ceiling, which is twice as many who held that […]
Politico’s David Rogers updates: President Barack Obama and the two top House Republican leaders held an unannounced meeting at the White House Sunday, trying to get debt talks back on track with just two weeks left before the threat of default. Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor were both part of the discussions […]
Our friends at the Washington Post take ominous note of Rep. Scott Tipton’s lackluster Q2: After getting off to a slow start in the first quarter, many of the most vulnerable Republican freshmen [Pols emphasis] continued to put off fundraising for their first reelection campaigns. Rep. David Rivera (Fla.) pulled in $34,000 as he faces […]
Boulder’s Rep. Jared Polis has been in the news quite a bit lately, from his leadership in Congress on ending federal marijuana prohibition to emerging as a star fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as Allison Sherry of the Denver paper reported this weekend. But here’s another positive story for Polis that’s near and […]
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