(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%
In a letter to the Fort Collins Coloradoan today, the 11% third-party spoiler from 2006 throws in for Betsy Markey: Marilyn Musgrave still doesn’t get it that voters are tired of the politics of personal destruction. She has gone over the top in personal attacks with her unfounded charges implying that Betsy Markey is a […]
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Colorado voters are poised to end race- and gender-based affirmative action programs in next week’s voting but the margin in favor of Amendment 46 is soft, new poll numbers show. The initiative is leading 53 percent to 40 percent, with 7 percent undecided. But Lori Weigel, a Republican pollster, […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Scott McInnis isn’t alone in thinking the extremists of his party have bullied the moderates out. As the LA Times reports, Social conservatives fight for control of Republican Party. The social conservatives and moderates who together boosted the Republican Party to dominance have begun a tense battle over the […]
As the Denver Post reports: A greater percentage of Coloradans search political websites, including those of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, than Web users anywhere else in the country, a national study shows. “More than residents of any other state, Coloradans are following the election the closest, at least online,” said Matt Pace, […]
UPDATE: former Senate president John Andrews, a close ally of both Bob Schaffer and Tom Tancredo, vents his rage at McInnis on Politics West: Poor timing, poor judgment, or something more Machiavellian, would be the only labels a team-playing Republican could put on former congressman Scott McInnis’s self-glorifying remarks in both Denver dailies this morning, […]
UPDATE: McInnis opens up to the Post’s Michael Riley—this is a must-read: McInnis said it’s a sign of how the Republican Party has mishandled this election – anointing a candidate who now is trailing in the polls, failing to focus enough on down-ticket races and dividing the time of its state chairman, who is now […]
Taking on the particularly horrible ad we were talking about yesterday, 9NEWS calls out lie after lie in correspondent Adam Schrager’s trademark dispassionate language: The following is a Truth Test about a commercial from Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado) who is running for re-election in the 4th Congressional District. (http://musgraveforcongress.org/) It attacks her opponent, Democrat Betsy […]
With the presidential and Senate races in Colorado locking in, there’s just one more scalp awaiting collection to render the Democrats’ 2008 election strategy a total success at the federal level. As the Boulder Daily Camera reported Saturday: Colorado’s sprawling 4th Congressional District hasn’t sent a Democrat to the U.S. House since 1972. But Musgrave’s […]
More than anything, here is the reason the Colorado Senate race is generally thought to be over–as the Rocky Mountain News reports: By a 3-to-1 ratio, Colorado’s crucial unaffiliated voters prefer Mark Udall over Bob Schaffer, giving the Democratic congressman a strong lead in the U.S. Senate race. And more than half the voters said […]
Please take a moment to visit our newest advertiser, the NO on Amendment 46 campaign, by clicking on the ad to the right. Colorado Pols is regularly accused of secretly controlling the Colorado (and sometimes national) media, so advertising here might be one of the greatest values in the history of human civilization. Click the […]
Further into uncharted territory, as the Rocky Mountain News reports: Sen. Barack Obama has surged to a commanding, double-digit lead in Colorado amid soaring anxiety about the country’s direction and a massive shift of independent voters into the Democratic column, a new poll finds. After weeks of devastating economic news, Obama now leads by 12 […]
We’ve talked a couple of times now about McCain/Palin rallygoers becoming a liability for the campaign, with Democrat trackers catching supporters on camera standing in line outside McCain and Palin rallies making racist and other offensive comments about opponent Barack Obama. Though the people on camera didn’t have any idea at the time, their videotaped […]
This morning I attended the McCain rally as a protestor. I handed out some leaflets that were at times violently rejected. These leaflets simply brought people’s attention to the fact that Cindy McCain profits from selling a substance that is more harmful to the human nervous system than marijuana. The tone at this rally, where […]
Like we have been patiently telling you for a week and a half, 9NEWS finally reports: the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s abandonment of candidate Bob Schaffer is now official. The dynamics surrounding Colorado’s race for the U.S. Senate took another turn on Friday when the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) pulled its advertising for the […]
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is expected to spend about $400,000 more on Denver television ads than his Republican rival during the remaining 12 days of the race… The estimates are based on advertising purchases that the candidates have made, as disclosed in public files at 9News, CBS […]
As the Denver Post reports: With less than two weeks to go in the contest to be Colorado’s next U.S. senator, Republican Bob Schaffer has spent parts of this week out of sight, and out of state. Since warming up arena-size crowds that came to see Sarah Palin on Monday and ending the day with […]
In the last couple of weeks, Democrat trackers have mixed with attendees standing in line for John McCain and Sarah Palin rallies around the country, and the video they’ve obtained of certain rather extreme comments about McCain’s opponent (“Muslim terrorist,” “Kill Obama,” etc.) has seriously embarrassed the McCain campaign. As the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reports, […]
From The Denver Post: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will cease television advertising in Colorado by Tuesday, according to state Democratic sources, a signal that the national candidate committee believes U.S. Rep. Mark Udall is comfortably ahead of former congressman Bob Schaffer in the race for Colorado’s open U.S. Senate seat. The DSCC instead will […]
As the Denver Post reports: A 4th Congressional District resident is asking the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate Republican Marilyn Musgrave and her campaign ads targeting Democratic opponent Betsy Markey. The complaint by Michelle Grooms alleges Musgrave filed a complaint against Markey “solely to fabricate criminal wrongdoing by Ms. Markey […]
The liberal activist group Progress Now just sent us links to criminal and House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct complaints against Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, as well as CD-4 Republican Party chairman Ron Buxman. Links to .PDF copies follow, and here are some excerpts: I am writing to urge that the Committee on Standards of […]
We’ve seen the lengthy list of those opposed to Amendment 48, the “personhood” amendment. But the YES campaign’s website also has its own list of supporters. Some of the names on the list, like right-wing Rep. Kevin Lundberg are no surprise, but other names on the list are a little surprising given a) how extreme […]
UPDATE: We hear that John McCain himself may visit Colorado on Friday. Whether that means McCain is still focused on Colorado, or whether they just want to maintain the appearance that Colorado is still in play, is another matter entirely. The AP reports: John McCain’s campaign is denying a report that advisers are considering ceding […]
We want to follow up a story we broke last week that provoked a great deal of celebration, confusion, and ultimately angry denials from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), who insists despite multiple reports to the contrary that they are not pulling out of the Colorado Senate race. As we and others have said, […]
A gun may have been brought to this knife fight after all, as the Denver Post reported yesterday: Taxpayers footed the bill for Bush administration officials to make four election-season stops in 2006 to bolster the then-flagging political fortunes of Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, a new report from an oversight committee shows. Musgrave was one of […]
The latest voter registration numbers from the Secretary of State’s office, as of yesterday: Democrats: Active voters: 876,498 Total registered: 1,046,408 Republican: Active voters: 870,435 Total registered: 1,060,627 Unaffiliated: Active voters: 789,200 Total registered: 1,067,499 The momentum is clear, continuing a downward trend for the GOP we noted over the summer when unaffiliated voters overtook […]
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