(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%
Last night Keith Olbermann took McCain to task for many of his recent ridiculous statements including this attack on Senator Obama: “Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president,” That sounds familiar. Where have I heard that said about a presidential candidate before? “I didn’t decide to […]
We’ve talked in the past about Senate candidate Bob Schaffer’s ties to Referendum A, the failed water infrastructure ballot initiative that was perceived on the Western Slope in particular as a “water grab” by the Front Range. Which was a big deal, but nothing compared to the ire raised by somebody outside Colorado wanting to […]
The Sentinel’s editorial board is nicer than we were: Let the finger-pointing begin, now that the bonus payments for the sale of natural gas leases on the Roan Plateau have come in far less that many people hoped and only about 5 percent of what one organization predicted. Energy industry folks blamed the state and […]
Prior to the recent “no one can be fired” initiative I always figured that high-tech startups suffered from benign neglect from the state – and that that was a great state of affairs. But this initiative has gotten me thinking and I do realize that there are some things the state could do to help […]
This week I had CO-4 Candidate Betsy Markey back on my radio show to talk about her vision for the district and for Colorado. The interview is great on its own, because, well, Betsy Markey is hands down a better candidate Marilyn Musgrave. The interesting part of the story is that Marilyn Musgrave went on […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Speaking of being full of crap, Big Oil Bob’s alligator tears for all of those poor Big Oil companies is as insulting and elitist as Phil Gramm’s “nation of whiner’s” statement. No Bob, your Big Oil buddies are raking in a lot of cash on the backs of hard […]
Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza updates his Senate Line, moves Colorado down to #5 most likely to switch parties. As he explained Friday: 5. Colorado (R): Three factors are responsible for the tightening of this open seat race. First, former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R) has managed to stay out of his own way for the […]
SATURDAY UPDATE: Coffman isn’t interested. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Some Colorado Republicans want Secretary of State Mike Coffman to step down in the next two weeks so another Republican can run for that office this November. Their strategy is to stop Democrats from controlling the office for the next two years. But Coffman, […]
Do you remember a year ago when the oil industry confidently predicted “a billion dollars” in Roan Plateau lease revenue would go to Colorado, if we would just go along with their demands to “drill here, drill now?” Only off by $885 million or so, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Both opponents and supporters […]
UPDATE: New Rasmussen poll also has Udall up by six points. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Soccer moms, Western Slope residents and younger voters hold the key to Mark Udall’s ability to win Colorado’s U.S. Senate race, according to a Rocky/CBS 4 News poll released today. The Democratic congressman from Eldorado Springs holds a […]
Here we have yet another “fair and balanced” panel with three Republicans, a former Democratic consultant and Alan Colmes, where comedian Sean Hannity is behind his bully pulpit persecuting John Edwards for his extramarital affairs. The humor with Hannity really begins around 2:40 in the video when Colmes brings up the fact that McCain cheated […]
Please take a moment to check out our newest top-line advertiser, AARP’s Divided We Fail campaign, by clicking the banner in the upper right of the page. Get your own Colorado Pols ad, send us an email. It may very well be the most important thing you ever do. Ever.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday: If you read this space, you knew this was coming. But even now that the odd-couple alliance between Ralph Reed and John McCain is complete, you still can’t believe that it’s true. On Thursday afternoon, Republicans around Georgia received an invitation from Reed, who will serve as a host of […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Will Bob Schaffer get the memo? Human life needs to be protected at every stage, beginning at the single-cell stage. Colorado’s Personhood Amendment (Amendment 48), which defines life as beginning at fertilization, goes to voters in November. “A founding principle of Focus on the Family – and a driving […]
Sentinel reporter Mike Saccone wrote a week ago Friday, seemingly planting the headstone on three days’ worth of freshly-discredited fingerpointing regarding Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall’s (not really) “missed vote”: …Udall did, in fact, vote against adjourning without an energy solution in place. We’ll leave it to others to discuss the implications of Udall’s vote […]
The primary that matters in this Denver race is the three-way Democratic slugfest between contenders Josh Hanfling, Liz Adams, and Lois Court. Poll follows. The winner of this race will effortlessly beat Republican blogger Joshua Sharf in November, after he fulfills his personal vendetta against “terrorist sympathizer” opponent Rima Sinclair this Tuesday.
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) {First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.} Both Congressman Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer oppose a state ballot initiative that would ban abortion by codifying that “personhood” begins at embryonic fertilization. While the anti-choice crowd probably wasn’t planning on voting for Udall anyway, this could be […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: The Rocky has the story, including a coy Steve Adams declining to say whether the anti-Polis campaign will include new ads. And another 527, headed by Mike Feeley, announces a weekend ad blitz to benefit the third candidate, Will Shafroth. Excerpts follow below the fold. Denver philanthropist and […]
National GOP-aligned activist group Freedom’s Watch in conducting “robocalls” throughout the state against Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall, indifferently sticking with the (bogus) “missed vote” wankfest attacks from last week. Listen here (Quicktime): http://coloradopols.com/wp-content/uploads/old_images… Laugh all you want at the fact that this wildly overhyped non-scandal has been fully debunked, we bet most of the […]
As the Fort Collins Coloradoan reports: Rep. Marilyn Musgrave ended what she said would be an “indefinite” stay in Washington after three days, and she’s now preparing a trip to an Alaskan wilderness that’s a major part of the ongoing energy debate. “She planned to stay indefinitely, but House leaders told the original members (of […]
It’s beginning to look like this year’s contentious primary contests are battling it out in court instead of at the ballot box. Republican Mike Coffman today filed a complaint with the FEC alleging Protect Colorado Jobs, a 501 c 4 non-profit, laundered corporate money to pay for an attack mailer last week. Politicker CO reports: […]
UPDATE: As pointed out by RedGreen below, McCain’s campaign is cutting and pasting their cut and paste internet strategy from two months ago! As made well know by the troll mitchturb: Created: Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 10:59:32 AM MD The McCain campaign has rolled out their internet game plan today (notice the date mitchturd’s […]
We revisit one of our favorite candidates of all time, Muhammad Ali Hasan, son of GOP heavyweight donors Malik and Seeme Hasan. You might otherwise know him as “the next fucking state representative.” And for God’s sake, don’t point at his girlfriend, though that’s probably not a big deal now that she withdrew the restraining […]
UPDATE: Polis keeps the pressure on with a blast mail to his substantial email constituent list (follows). As we noted a couple of days ago, and the Denver Post’s Jessica Fender writes for Politics West: The recent flap over Joan Fitz-Gerald’s 2004 advocacy for using cyanide to mine gold – a process environmentalists object to […]
“This guy was fundraising…and missing votes. That is reprehensible.” That was Bob Schaffer campaign manager Dick Wadhams’ justification for his now-infamous assertion that Schaffer was going to “shove a bunch of 30-second ads up [opponent Mark Udall’s] ass on ‘this issue’ over the course of the campaign.” The ‘issue’ was, if you recall, missed votes […]
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