(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%
Former Republican Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters found out the results of her $250,000 recount attempt today. Peters needed about 89,000 votes to change in order for her to be declared the GOP nominee for Secretary of State instead of Pam Anderson. She gained a total of 13 votes instead. But so did Anderson, […]
Right now, at the top of this page, there’s a pretty good chance you’re seeing an ad similar to this one: This ad has been running in heavy circulation on our site’s Google ad spaces for the last 48 hours or so, as well as a number of much larger political news sites including Politico […]
As readers know, the restaurant once operated by freshman GOP tempest in a teapot Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rifle’s Shooters Grill, shut down unceremoniously last month after the owner of the building declined to renew their lease. Since Shooter’s Grill appears to have operated more as a tax write-off than a going concern, and Rep. Boebert […]
A press release from CD-3 Democratic nominee Adam Frisch touts polling numbers showing Frisch down by 7 points to freshman GOP outrage aggregator Rep. Lauren Boebert–obviously with room to improve but beating the expected performance for a Democrat in this R+9 district, as well as general expectations after Rep. Boebert blew out her Republican primary […]
Several absurd recount requests filed by sore-loser Republicans are scheduled to be completed on Thursday. But many of these candidates, including former Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters, are now trying to stop the recounts that they have already paid for because they don’t like how the recounting is being recounted…or something. This is all […]
Four states held Primary Elections on Tuesday night. The biggest story — by far — was the outcome of a hotly-contested abortion rights measure in Kansas. As Jennifer Rubin writes for The Washington Post: A political earthquake shook Kansas on Tuesday. Voters in the deep-red state turned out in droves to reject a measure that […]
As the Washington Post reports, though if you’re not living in a cave in…well, Afghanistan, you probably already know: The United States has killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda and one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists, who, alongside the group’s founder, Osama bin Laden, oversaw the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Biden announced […]
We posted yesterday about an interview this week of GOP freshman calamity on wheels Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert of Colorado by leading right-wing fringe mouthpiece Sebastian Gorka, in which Boebert asserted that a “disarmed populace” would lead to the eating of dogs. An explanation of the sequence of events between the disarming of the people […]
Marianne Goodland of the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman reports on a very weird fundraising story involving Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, who was soundly defeated on June 28th in her bid to be the Republican nominee for Secretary of State: Campaign finance reports show embattled Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters […]
Serving a population just north of 11,000, the Fort Morgan Times is not exactly what you’d call a major Colorado media outlet. Nonetheless the paper does employ a political reporter, Brian Porter, who in general can be counted on to produce uncritical puff pieces about Republican candidates who pass through town in search of the […]
We haven’t heard a lot about the race for State Treasurer in 2022, which is not all that unusual. For one thing, few Coloradans understand what the State Treasurer actually does – and that may include the Republican candidate seeking the office this fall. Incumbent Democrat Dave Young is running for re-election against Republican Lang Sias, […]
As readers know, we have adopted a policy of screening the daily firehose of foolery from freshman GOP outrage singularity Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert for only the most relevant or newsworthy items, lest we become a blog wholly dedicated to cataloguing the misdeeds of any one politician–which would certainly gratify Boebert’s ego, but quickly become […]
Back in March, we wrote in this space a detailed explainer about WHY gasoline prices were so expensive. The truth of the matter is very simple: Gas prices hit record high levels this summer BECAUSE oil and gas companies chose to prioritize shareholders by focusing on higher profits instead of increased production. Most Americans, by […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s campaign was in trouble long before the debacle that consumed most of her July, when Ganahl’s first choice for lieutenant governor all too publicly rejected her, and then her second choice Danny Moore plunged the campaign into fresh crisis due to Moore’s well-known conspiracy theorizing about the results of […]
As Marianne Goodland reports for the publication formerly known as The Colorado Statesman: In a surprise move, state Rep. Edie Hooton announced on Saturday she would not seek reelection to the state House. The Boulder Democrat representing District 10 was running for her fourth and final term in the House… …In a news release, Hooton […]
State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, the Republican nominee in Colorado’s newest Congressional district (CO-08), used her social media accounts today to celebrate “Colorado Day,” the 146th anniversary of the founding of the 38th state. This would be a completely fine and non-controversial statement for virtually any other Colorado politician to make. The problem in this case is […]
This week in episode 116 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk about unicorns…or at least the Republican politicians who want to be compared to these mythical creatures. More specifically, we answer a listener question about Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea and why he is as much of […]
SATURDAY UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark walloped Danny Moore for his brazenly false attempt at reinvention last night. Sorry about the awful embedding, 9NEWS hasn’t posted the video in a better format and copyright obliges us to use their uploads: Once again demonstrating that anything, including silence, is better than lying–especially when everyone knows better. The […]
Republican candidates for public office in Colorado have been saying for many months that the 2022 election is going to be all about gas prices, inflation, and crime. At least, they hope that’s what voters will be most worried about, because they absolutely do NOT want to have to talk about issues such as abortion […]
If you are a regular listener of The Get More Smarter Podcast, you know that the show often includes a segment called, “What the Buck?” This is a feature about Republican Rep. Ken Buck (R-Greeley-ish), who has gotten inexorably weirder the longer he has been in Congress. Buck was never what you would call a […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters paid the $255,912 needed to recount all votes in the June GOP primary for Colorado Secretary of State, a vote that had her coming in second place against the declared winner, Pamela Anderson. As a result, elections officials in all 64 counties […]
UPDATE (3:30 pm): It appears that Joe O’Dea’s campaign is a bit nervous about the fact that their guy got caught with his pants down: O’Dea compares his style to Manchin’s, but he opposes the Manchin-Schumer deal on climate & tax. He’s specifically calling out the tax provisions, which include a 15% global corporate minimum […]
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With apologies to Democrats still hoping that Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert could be ousted in November, the math suggests that there are really only two competitive races among Colorado’s eight congressional districts in 2022: For the “open” seats in CO-07 and CO-08. In each district, the issue of gun violence prevention clearly separates the Democratic […]
The Hill reports on legislation reauthorizing federal enforcement efforts against human trafficking that passed the U.S. House yesterday by a lopsided 401-20 vote, with the teensy minority against nonetheless including two Republican members from Colorado: The legislation, titled the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, passed in a 401-20 vote, with all […]
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