(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 Rocky Mountain News reports: The battle for the soul of the Republican Party may begin in a state Senate district in rural Larimer County. Republican Sen. Steve Johnson, who was elected to the Larimer County Commission, plans to resign his Senate seat next month. State Rep. Kevin Lundberg, of Berthoud, and business owner […]
From today’s “friendly meeting” between outgoing President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama. Priceless context-free expressions.
Apparently Latinos weren’t among the stupid voters that should stay home–or were they? As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s editorial board opines wistfully: When someone moves to the United States, often finding freedom in what many Americans consider menial labor, that person is responding to the labor market. Why else would they come here? We don’t […]
You can understand a day or two, but now it’s just getting weird–as the Denver Post reports: Bitterness generated by the bruising battle between Betsy Markey and Marilyn Musgrave apparently lingers days after voters decided the winner of the 4th Congressional District. Incumbent Republican Musgrave, who lost to Democrat Markey by a 56 to 44 […]
As the Denver Post reports: Colorado Republicans, sifting through the ashes of three disastrous election cycles, are in the midst of a vigorous debate over how to win again in a state where their future looks bleak. That struggle is likely to play out over the next few months, key players say, starting with a […]
It’s a consensus view that state Sen. Josh Penry hurt himself politically as a primary backer of Amendment 52, which failed Tuesday by a resounding margin. An initiative that would have stripped money from water projects to fund highway projects, Amendment 52 will likely stigmatize its backers in much the same way the toxic Referendum […]
L.B. suggested we get together for drinks. The concensus appears to be this saturday 2:00 3:00 at 8 Rivers in LoDo. So, how many are up for this? My vote is we get 8 or more committments by 5:00 Friday for it to be on. Who’s up for this? Update: starting at 3:00 Update 2: […]
Finally called today by the Rocky Mountain News: Colorado becomes the first state to reject an initiative being pushed across the country that would have eliminated race- and gender-based affirmative action programs by voting down Amendment 46. By a slim margin, voters turned down the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative backed by California millionaire Ward Connerly […]
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Democrats today elected Rep. Terrance Carroll of Denver as their speaker after a wild race for the top post in Colorado’s House of Representatives. In addition, Senate Democrats re-elected Peter Groff of Denver as their Senate president. That means for the first time that two black men hold the […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) This Fox News video was already posted elsewhere by Go Blue, but I think it deserves its own diary. Among the highlights: Palin’s worldly ignorance must be very great; she allegedly did not know that Africa was a continent and not a country, or what nations comprise NAFTA; She […]
Democratic State Rep. Bernie Buescher was defeated in his bid for re-election, which throws the leadership election into a dizzy for the donkeys. Buescher was all but a shoo-in to be elected as the next Speaker of the House, so now what? Rep. Kathleen Curry has thrown her hat into the ring, but whether or […]
A dramatic turnaround for California political operative Ward Connerly’s heretofore-unstoppable KKK-backed affirmative action bans “Civil Rights Initiatives” that have passed around the country in recent years, as the Rocky Mountain News reports: Pre-election polls indicated a cakewalk for Amendment 46, the initiative to end race- and gender-based affirmative action programs. But a sizable ground game […]
No, not the lame movie, but the amendment. True, most posters at this site will likely vote against it, but it has not gotten the attention it deserves, especially given the focus on 47. Well, as johne’s post here shows, recent polls have shown the anti-family, anti-worker amendments losing, but 54 by not quite as […]
A couple of weeks ago, we discussed indications that GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer was hoarding campaign cash instead of spending it, signaling a recognition that the Senate campaign was lost and a possible future run–perhaps for his former CD-4 seat held (for the moment) by embattled successor Marilyn Musgrave. A Denver Post article from […]
Although polling has showed a consistent trend in recent months to Democratic candidate Barack Obama, the unprecedented number of recent appearances by the Obama family, Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden, Republican nominee John McCain, and GOP VP contender Sarah Palin show that both sides are fighting very hard to win Colorado on Tuesday. As with […]
This is a poll tracking our readership’s best estimate of who will win the closest federal race left in Colorado, the epic slugfest in CD-4 between incumbent Marilyn Musgrave and challenger Betsy Markey. As with other polls of this kind, we’re not interested in who you support; we want to know who you objectively think […]
As the Denver Post reports: Several amendments on Tuesday’s statewide ballot appear headed for defeat, including the controversial “right to work” and “personhood” measures, according to the latest Denver Post poll. Five of the six measures included in the poll garnered support from less than 40 percent of the 625 registered voters who participated in […]
SUNDAY UPDATE: We just got a phone call that there is a plane flying toward Denver towing a banner that reads “McCain is a Raiders fan.” Can anybody confirm this? UPDATE #2: Naturally, Progress Now. from a release (posted below): “That McCain is a Raiders Fan is the kiss of death in Colorado,” stated Michael […]
On the Saturday before the 2006 election, we wrote this: As this election cycle has progressed, we at ColoradoPols have frequently been accused of a ‘liberal bias.’ Some of us responsible for the content you see here every day take umbrage with that, because it just isn’t true. We really do have representative opinions from […]
There’s a price to be paid for the things former Senate candidate Scott McInnis told the press this week about the state of the GOP, “too far to the right” candidates like Bob Schaffer, and his departure from the race under high-level Republican pressure in early 2007. When McInnis told the Colorado Independent, followed by […]
UPDATE: the liberal activist group Progress Now just filed a complaint with the Justice Department asking for an investigation of false statements (the bogus name and address for the donation in question) and making knowingly illegal campaign contributions. From the complaint: I urge that you immediately exercise your authority under federal law to investigate whether […]
As you may have read in my past posts on the GOP stealing the election in Colorado, you know that those of us in Colorado are frankly worried about the real possibility of our votes being stolen on election day. At issue, Sec. of State Mike Coffman’s voter purges, in violation of the law. Well, […]
Confirming discussion from a few days ago that both Tom Tancredo and Bob Beauprez are considering quixotic also-runs for Governor in 2010, ex-Denver Post reporter Mike Soraghan reports for The Hill: Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who announced his retirement from Congress last year before his insurgent bid for president flamed out, is weighing a run […]
UPDATE: From the Las Vegas Sun, a story about Bob Schaffer’s former roommate Sen. John Ensign, McInnis, and Ensign’s costly picks (like Schaffer) for Senate races all over the country: Ensign took over as head of the election effort in late 2006. His trouble began as he failed to recruit top-tier candidates to challenge the […]
Did this seriously just happen? Right, you were saying something about Scott McInnis? Palin just set a new world record for distance off the reservation. And if you needed some further evidence that the rats are running for any piece of wreckage still afloat, well, this ought to do it. H/T: Wonkette, via our own […]
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