(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%
As The Denver Post reports today, Colorado’s candidates for U.S. Senate will report vastly different results from the Q4 fundraising period: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet raised more than $1.1 million last quarter, nearly 3 1/2 times more than his Democratic opponent, Andrew Romanoff. On the Republican side for the U.S. Senate seat, Jane Norton collected […]
FOX 31’s Eli Stokols writes: GOP gubernatorial front-runner Scott McInnis continues to get dinged up in his ongoing effort to secure more support from conservative Tea Party and 9-12 groups… “I really don’t know what the problem is,” said McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy. “This really is a tempest in a Tea Party pot. [Pols emphasis] […]
(Updated info to Dan’s diary. – promoted by Middle of the Road) As predicted, state Sen. Paula Sandoval announces she’s running for the Denver City Council District 1 seat vacated by Rick Garcia’s appointment to a regional HUD post. She doesn’t plan to step down from her legislative seat to make the run. As Dan […]
The latest report in a long series chronicling the state’s greatest conservative bastion, and the consequences of anti-government ideology run amok. You wanted to know what Grover Norquist meant by “drowning government in a bathtub?” As the Denver Post reports, it’s getting kind of medieval: More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs […]
NOTE: We’ll be discussing this on AM760 this morning between 7am-10am Colorado time. Tune in on your local radio dial or at www.am760.net. As the recession drives state coffers into the deep red, we’re seeing many tax fights erupt all over the country – fights that are bringing out the best and worst in our […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATED 2/3/10–New Title, New Info and Old Diary The NY Times is reporting: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Grand Junction has a national title it doesn’t want. The town led the nation with job losses last year according to federal labor officials. The U.S. Department of Labor reported Tuesday […]
(Bumped into Monday by popular demand – promoted by Colorado Pols) Friday, the campaign of Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff announced several new hires with a national footprint–strategist Joe Trippi of Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, Celinda Lake, most recently having served as the pollster for Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley, Liz Chadderdon, a direct-mail campaign […]
The Colorado Independent caught Senate candidate Jane Norton claiming, with her own laugh track, that she has not “been” a lobbyist: In an interview with a Colorado Springs radio talk show host Tuesday, Former lieutenant governor and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jane Norton said she has never worked as a lobbyist. She was responding […]
Priceless, as the Denver Post reported this morning: What was supposed to be a reception honoring the new Colorado Oil & Gas Association president turned into a political brouhaha after Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the Democratic candidate for governor, addressed the crowd. President Tisha Conoly Schuller announced that Republican contender Scott McInnis also had been […]
Last year Rachel Maddow attacked a group of Democratic Senators, including CO Sen. Michael Bennet, for their opposition to their own President’s agenda and called them “Conservadems” Ms. Maddow: (the coalition’s focus) “…is on reducing Federal Spending. (at a time when the Stimulus was being proposed to save the country from another Great Depression) According […]
(Anything about Doug Bruce, ANYTHING, gets a promote from me. – promoted by Middle of the Road) So says Doug Bruce to the Gazette‘s Eileen Welsome. Welsome put two and two together, conducting a nationwide search to find out who the petition circulators were for the fiscal suicide initiatives tied yesterday to Bruce. Her findings […]
A little more to this note from the Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels than meets the eye: McInnis has brought on a new campaign manager, Nancy Hopper, who ran his first congressional campaign in 1992 and is the daughter of former lawmaker Sally Hopper. Asked about the staffing changes, Hopper said, “We have had a really […]
The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels writes for The Spot: Democratic House Speaker Terrance Carroll said a GOP leader “flagrantly conducted business as usual” and checked in with a major donor before casting a vote on a mortgage bill. Carroll said that House Assistant Minority Leader David Balmer of Centennial placed a call to the donor, […]
Republican Ali Hasan only recently entered the three-way GOP primary for State Treasurer, but he’s already the first one out of the gate with broad advertising. The radio ad below is apparently running on KOA, particularly during the “Mike Rosen Show.” Unlike, say Tom Lucero, who can make a TV ad but doesn’t have the […]
UPDATE: Yes, ex-lobbyist Sen. Pat Steadman (D) was pushing this bill too. Somebody should really have a talk with him about appearances, the bill was no less a PR disaster with Steadman pitching it. According to Lynn Bartels, GOP Rep. Larry Liston claims there were “some” other Democrats on board as well–nobody willing to say […]
UPDATE: More on Gardner’s absence from The Coloradoan, which is particularly notable for the bungling way this was handled by his campaign: Gardner spokesman Mike Ciletti declined to identify who Gardner met with Monday. The Yuma Republican’s absence was first reported by the Denver Post. “Cory was meeting with individuals who have an interest in […]
By popular demand (and validating press coverage): Fox 31 giving us cover to even be talking about this: “Normally, the first side to invoke Hitler loses in politics,” said political analyst Eric Sondermann. “But this may not be in the same category.” Sondermann, the son of two Holocaust survivors, is reacting to a new viral […]
(Josh is about to make somebody cry… – promoted by Middle of the Road) Ignoring the crazy, or at least crazier, fringe faction of his base, one-time Tea Party favorite and soon to be former state senator, Josh Penry has endorsed Jane ‘The Other’ Norton for U.S. Senate. Penry announced yesterday that he was endorsing […]
*Longmont residents, so sorry. The Daily Times-Call reports: Mayor Bryan Baum wants to limit the amount of time the public is allowed to address the City Council at the beginning of council meetings… “Honestly, I get tired by the end of it, and when we do the city’s business, we need to be sharp,” said […]
An opportunity self-preservation interested Democrats should take, the Durango Herald reports: Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien worries that her office might be swamped with work from an Aurora senator’s bill to curb the use of American Indian mascots at high schools. Senate Bill 107, by Sen. Suzanne Williams, D-Aurora, would require about 18 high schools with […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Secretary of State Bernie Buescher wants to save the state – and the Republican Party – some time and money. That’s why he’s calling campaign finance legal experts from all sides into his office today to find out exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court did in its decision that […]
From The New York Times, the Tea Party crowd may be more trouble to the GOP than to Democrats: When Scott McInnis appeared on Fox News last month underneath a title calling him the “Tea-Party-backed candidate” for governor, he triggered a tempest. Tea Party leaders fired off angry e-mail messages and public statements insisting that […]
As most of you know, the conservative online “news” outlet Face the State had its plug unceremoniously pulled last summer by its key funder, and since then there’s been a bit of a gap in the echo-chamber messaging capability of the right. Well yes, that’s true, you can probably make the argument that the gap […]
Leading conservative columnist–and Colorado Springs transplant–Michelle Malkin unleashed a furious tirade Friday against what she calls “McCain Regression Syndrome” in the aftermath of last week’s GOP victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, speaking out against Sen. John McCain’s “clinging to the coattails” of the resurgent right flank of the Republican Party. Malkin’s Exhibit A? Senate […]
As we’ve written here on more than one occasion, the primary reason behind the Republican Party’s fall from power in the state legislature in 2004 is not difficult to understand. Led by Sen. John Andrews, the GOP was obsessed with divisive social and political issues when voters were looking for leadership on larger problems like […]
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