(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 New York Times reports in the wake of last week’s attempted assassination of Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi: The attack on Ms. Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, on Friday, which left him with a fractured skull and appeared to be part of a planned attack on the speaker […]
You can count the number of days until the end of the 2022 election cycle on one hand. As Election Day looms, Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea and GOP gubernatorial no-hopeful Hiedi Heidi Ganahl are caught in a weird illogical loop of desperation and internal lies. Before we update you on the strange last days […]
Adding to a growing consensus of polling in recent weeks, the University of Colorado’s American Politics Research Lab released their latest Colorado Political Climate Survey, with numbers in line with other recent polls showing Gov. Jared Polis rapidly pulling away in the Colorado governor’s race, incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet prevailing over Republican challenger Joe O’Dea […]
We wrote earlier about Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea inexplicably spending the last week of the 2022 election cycle touring the Western Slope and Eastern Plains of Colorado. This is a strange tradition for GOP Senate candidates who know they are about to lose, from Bob Schaffer in 2008 to Cory Gardner in 2020. On […]
We took note late last Friday of a new ad running from Republican CD-8 congresssional candidate Barb Kirkmeyer that falsely and repeatedly claims Colorado Democrats “legalized fentanyl,” a claim that has absolutely no basis in reality after legislation passed this year in Colorado significantly tightening penalties for possession of the drug. Previous to this year, […]
UPDATE: For a little more perspective: We’re running a total of about 46k ballots short of where we were now in 2018 which can be attributed to many factors (longer ballot, different counties at different speeds, etc.) but what’s striking is how far behind Rs are relative to Ds and how far ahead Us are […]
Colorado Congressperson Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert will likely be a bit nervous on Election Night as she waits to find out if recent polling numbers showing Democrat Adam Frisch gaining ground in CO-03 prove to be accurate. As we’ve noted before, Boebert is unquestionably the face of the Colorado Republican Party — and that’s probably the […]
One of the many oddities about freshman Colorado GOP walking talking cautionary tale Rep. Lauren Boebert is that she doesn’t generally endorse candidates in Colorado races–or it could be that Republicans don’t want Boebert’s endorsement. Either way, Boebert’s absence from the local Republican campaign circuit in 2022 has been as notable as her lack of […]
As some of the more online among our readers may be aware and we’ll forgive them if not, an exchange between Gov. Jared Polis and Republican challenger Hiedi Heidi Ganahl at their debate last week in Grand Junction has enjoyed a curious afterlife, becoming by far the most-discussed moment of the series of debates between […]
Republican Joe O’Dea is wrapping up his long, strange trip as a 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate by doubling-down on an obvious lie and hanging out with former Sen. Cory Gardner, whose last election cycle concluded with a nearly 10-point loss to Democrat John Hickenlooper. Before we get to Gardner, we’ll start with Friday’s final […]
Ever since Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl introduced the issue of students “identifying as cats” as a campaign theme, later clarifying to Colorado Public Radio that a school play about “a raven that does a sex-change operation” was one of the events that motivated Ganahl to run for office, we’ve been watching for Ganahl’s […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii are joined by State Sen. Kevin Priola of Henderson, who made lots of news this fall by switching parties from Republican to Democrat. Senator Priola talks about how he ended up leaving the Republican Party, how he plans to vote in […]
Very sad news this Sunday from the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann, Colorado House Minority Leader Hugh McKean passed away unexpectedly early this morning after complaining of symptoms consistent with a heart attack: McKean, who first was elected in 2016 and was chosen to lead the caucus in 2020, was found at his home in Loveland […]
Ever since winning the Republican primary for Colorado’s brand-new ultra-competitive CD-8 seat in Congress, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer has been forced to pivot much harder from her record as a far-right red meat spewing secession-backing anti-abortion activist in order to appeal to this swingiest of districts. Kirkmeyer has flat denied her previous self on abortion […]
We’re monitoring terrible news out of San Francisco today that appears to be getting worse by the minute, as Politico reports on the violent attack early this morning on Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: The intruder who allegedly assaulted Nancy Pelosi’s husband in the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday […]
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We’ve known each other for so long Your heart’s been aching, but you’re too shy to say it (say it) Inside, […]
(Time for some traffic problems — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado U.S. Senate hopeful Joe O’Dea is holding a campaign event this Saturday in Denver with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. O’Dea lists transportation infrastructure as a priority issue and his leadership experience is running a company that builds roads and bridges. This makes […]
Former state Sen. turned ubiquitous GOP political operative Greg Brophy is incensed that Democrats are likening two Republicans in a campaign mailer–two Republicans who Brophy claims to support: In short, Brophy supports both freshman GOP train wreck-a-thon Rep. Lauren Boebert and state house candidate Paul Archer, but Democrats comparing Archer to Boebert directly is “intellectually […]
As released yesterday by the conservative website Campfire Colorado, who we’re pretty sure thought they were helping GOP candidate for governor Heidi Ganahl: So no, not helping, but definitely granting some comic relief to the end of one of the worst campaigns in Colorado political history! These mashups are very popular with the MAGA […]
We’ve been posting regular reminders of this each time a new story emerges about the obscene profits being collected by oil and gas companies. The reason that gasoline prices have been so high (though they are going down) is not because of President Biden or Gov. Jared Polis or government regulations. To paraphrase an old line […]
Here’s a cool program worth highlighting from a press release via the Secretary of State’s office: Today, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Regional Transportation District (RTD) General Manager and CEO Debra A. Johnson, Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Molly Fitzpatrick, and Denver County Clerk and Recorder Paul D. López highlighted two upcoming zero fare […]
(Republished under Creative Commons license by Colorado Pols) Sen. Michael Bennet speaks at the Colorado Water Congress in Steamboat Springs on Aug. 23, 2022. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline October 27, 2022 In Tuesday night’s U.S. Senate debate in Colorado, Republican challenger Joe O’Dea saved his most pointed attack on incumbent Democratic […]
The Colorado Secretary of State’s office released new ballot return numbers. As of yesterday, 271,407 mail ballots had been returned in Colorado. Here’s the pie chart: These numbers are well behind the same point in 2020, which of course reflects the difference in voter enthusiasm in a non-Presidential election. But if you look at […]
We can’t stop looking at these 49 frames: The superficial resemblance between 2020 GOP U.S. Senate loser Cory Gardner and 2022 GOP Senate soon-to-be loser Joe O’Dea has been noted by more than a few, but it seems to never be more uncanny than in those expressions you just can’t hide. Like realizing in your […]
Colorado’s U.S. Senate race is entering its final days with a big ol’ heaping plate of “whatever.” For weeks, national news outlets pretended that the battle between incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Joe O’Dea could be a closely-watched race on Election Day. But with less than two weeks to go, reality has […]
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