(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%
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 […]
UPDATE: Scott Tipton stayed in Washington, DC this weekend, reports the Aspen Daily News, in anticipation of a possible debt-ceiling vote on Monday. As we thought a perfectly reasonable explanation, but good netiquette would update a website with this instead of just deleting the original announcement and leaving your constituents to guess. —– We received […]
A report worth noting from the Greeley Gazette’s Jack Minor: Supporters of the McConnell proposal say that Tea Party expectations for spending reductions has always been unrealistic. The reasoning is, that by giving Obama the authority to raise the debt limit, he will own the issue… Tea Party members have expressed outrage over the McConnell […]
As the Los Angeles Times reports: A plan by the Senate’s two top leaders to allow President Obama to raise the debt limit without congressional approval is emerging as the most likely strategy to avoid a looming federal default… …Conservatives, particularly in the House, seem likely to oppose it. But with efforts to deliver a […]
Here’s freshman Rep. Scott Tipton this morning on the KOA Morning News–talking about the debt ceiling negotiations underway, on which he is expected to give commentary in the home markets even though he’s not involved with anything consequential. And it shows. But in this three minutes and twenty seconds of audio, Tipton does manage to […]
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