(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%
According to the Republican website Complete Colorado, GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis made a big boo-boo. While Complete Colorado may look like it was designed by your 8-year-old niece, and this is clearly an orchestrated attack on McInnis, they do appear to have the goods on a major mistake by the Republican contender: Moments into […]
Some of our readers have their quibbles with columnist and AM760 temp radio host David Sirota, but if you tune into the debate presently underway between Sirota and local conservative commentator grande Mike Rosen, you’ll hear something like the historic 1960 Kennedy v. Nixon demolition unfolding. Most entertaining.
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UPDATE: AP correction, bill is in fact in the State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee today–not Judiciary as they previously reported. The Denver Post reports the latest status on House Bill 1274, the death penalty repeal, which is garnering increasing national attention as it, um, refuses to die: A proposal to eliminate the death penalty […]
(It’s…THAT poll…hey, look over there! – promoted by Colorado Pols) Ken Buck’s campaign is taking a page from the Beauprez camapaign’s citing of polls that didn’t actually exist to exaggerate their viability. Take this excerpt from the Greeley Tribune’s story on Buck’s announcement: Buck said he believes he can cross political lines and get support […]
As The Denver Post: Colorado’s business leaders are pressing U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet to oppose controversial legislation that would make it easier for workers to unionize. Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce president Joe Blake and other Colorado business officials met with Bennet this week in Washington to discuss the Employee Free Choice Act. “This proposal […]
We’re a little late to the party on this story, but it’s still amazingly strange. As The Fix reported last week: Every once in a while, just when we think we have seen it all, a poll cross the Fix desk that makes us do a double-take. This is that poll. In a new survey […]
If reading today’s Greeley Tribune seems a little like deja vu, flashing back a couple of years to another Senate candidate who had trouble figuring out if he was actually running (even though he plainly was running), that’s probably because it, well, should: Weld District Attorney Ken Buck denied reports circulating on the Internet on […]
It’s been a little while since we last discussed Senate Bill 228, the much-debated repeal of the Arveschoug-Bird general fund limit statutorily enacted in 1991 in a misguided (and ultimately futile) attempt to forestall passage of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. After some instructive spectacle from unserious Senate Republicans, not to mention an encouraging related […]
Take a moment to check out the website of our latest advertiser, the American Petroleum Institute, by clicking on their banner in the upper left. Got an ad to display on Colorado’s most-read and discussed political website? Email us: you may not know this but nothing happens in Colorado politics without our permission–so make things […]
The Colorado Independent reported late last week: Rocked by the former president’s high stakes budget shifting, Colorado State University is gambling once again that upping administration costs will bolster the university in the future. The controversial search for the land grant university’s first system chancellor comes amid faculty and staff layoffs, a looming multi-million budget […]
UPDATE: Green’s resignation email to constituents after the jump Democrats are dropping like flies… Democrat Gwyn Green (HD-23) has resigned her seat in the state house effective June 1. Green had one more term left to run for, but had been rumored to be interested in stepping aside for a long time because of her […]
The Grand Junction Sentinel asked for a response from Colorado Democrats to last week’s “Homeland Security tracking wingnuts and vets” Janet Napolitano gaffe. Helpfully, too, since it’s out on the beet-red Western Slope–where only AM radio and Fox News seem to penetrate many canyon walls–that Glenn Beck reality-based antidotes are needed most: Homeland Security Secretary […]
(What’s up with this – McInnis concern troll redux? Lt. Gov (for you, little man) overture? Will they “rule the galaxy together as father and son?” – promoted by Colorado Pols) Sentinel reporting: McInnis says he and Penry could both be governor someday …If he and Josh Penry can work together, the Western Slope could […]
Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post’s The Fix blog is out with his latest Senate line. For the uninitiated, this is a list of Senate seats considered most likely to switch parties: 8. Colorado (D): Appointed Sen. Michael Bennet (D) deserves credit for putting together a very impressive — $1.4 million — fundraising quarter especially […]
Great piece from 9NEWS yesterday on what’s otherwise a curiously underreported story here in Colorado: Susan Wones is about as far removed from the political spotlight of Washington, D.C. as you can get, but if Congress moves to reform how credit card companies do business, her fingerprints will be on that change. Three years ago, […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain reports: Though House Republicans had no trouble Wednesday accepting cuts and cash fund transfers that budget writers came up with to balance next year’s $17.9 billion spending plan, their counterparts in the Senate just plain didn’t like them. GOP senators said the Joint Budget Committee that ultimately approved about $300 million […]
(Yeah, baby, rumble – promoted by Colorado Pols) Tom Jensen, some guy at Public Policy Polling, takes issue with my post yesterday. My central point was that any poll right now that attributes to US Sen. Michael Bennet 75% name rec — let alone 75% opinion-holding — among Colorado voters is laughable on its face. […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Just like yesterday’s Obama/Udall numbers, PPP is putting out its Colorado robo-polls. Tomorrow is Bill Ritter’s turn. Today it’s Senator Michael Bennet’s. Bennet is such a newbie on the field, he’s a great test subject to establish how silly these robo-polling firms are. PPP is especially notorious in their […]
Your “Conservadem” Senators in action, folks–this is going to be a little tougher for Rachel Maddow, et al. to explain, isn’t it? Why is the Pueblo Chieftain the only paper that reports the local connection to these national headline stories? President Barack Obama’s decision last week to declassify secret Justice Department memos authorizing the CIA […]
According to The Rothenberg Political Report, the seat occupied by Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet has been upgraded from “Narrow Advantage for Incumbent Party” to “Clear Advantage for Incumbent Party.” Despite Bennet’s disadvantages when it comes to name ID, we’d have to agree with Rothenberg. Given his prolific fundraising and the weakness of the Republican field, […]
From The Associated Press: Facing opposition from district attorneys, Colorado lawmakers are dropping a plan to overhaul sentencing laws this year. Instead, they hope to prod the state’s criminal justice commission to tackle the issue. Senate Majority Leader Brandon Shaffer announced the change of course on Tuesday at a news conference called by prosecutors to […]
From Politics West: Favorability ratings for President Barack Obama and Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado have fallen beneath 50 percent in a new poll out this morning. A survey from Raleigh, N.C.-based Public Policy Polling found 49 percent of Colorado voters approved of Obama’s performance, compared to 41 percent who dissented. Udall found support from […]
They say legislators legislate with one eye on the next election, and taking a look at the actions for Gov. Bill Ritter so far this year, it’s safe to say that governors…well, govern the same way. When Ritter emerged as the unchallenged Democratic candidate for Governor in 2006, many liberals knew what they were getting […]
As the Denver Post reports: The sun shone bright over Civic Center Park Friday afternoon at 4:19. By 4:20, a thick fog had settled in. Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts toked together during the annual 420 counterculture holiday, chanting “freedom” as they let loose a hazy cloud of smoke from their lungs. The crowd began assembling […]
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