(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Earlier this month, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsements of state legislative candidates for the 2022 election, saying the candidates selected by the chamber, “all demonstrated a dedication to working with the business community to support forward-thinking policies that will promote job creation and opportunity for all Coloradans.” But […]
UPDATE: Let the slow heavy metal music play: NEW 📥: In a press release, Tina Peters’ campaign says she has successfully raised enough money ($230k) to pay for a recount of the GOP primary election for Secretary of State. Peters, as she has said previously, wants a hand count. #copolitics @KRDONC13 — Spencer Soicher KRDO […]
Yesterday, we were forwarded an “urgent national petition” sent out by the Centennial Institute, the conservative political activist wing of taxpayer-funded Colorado Christian University, calling for Colorado’s U.S. Senators to oppose legislation protecting marriage equality following the threat made by Justice Clarence Thomas in the recent Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade that other recently-won […]
The election denialism trend that was sparked by former President Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be going away entirely, but at least we might have reached a stage where the election truthers aren’t trying that hard to explain their cockamamie theories. For example, we ran across this story from the right-wing “Gateway Pundit” about alleged […]
While most of the public outrage has been focused on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning the federally guaranteed right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade, another decision by the rightward-skewed Court this session is beginning to reverberate–troublingly for the overwhelming majority of Americans who support tighter restrictions on gun ownership. As the […]
Six years ago, Colorado Republicans nominated little-known El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn to be their nominee for U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet. A few months after winning a competitive Republican Primary, Glenn confidently compared himself to a “unicorn” owing to his self-impressed political beliefs and campaign style. “I am the human equivalent […]
We noted on Friday that the first public appearance for Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Heidi Ganahl’s running mate did not go well. Ganahl formally introduced Danny Moore, her choice for Lieutenant Governor (LG), at an event in Aurora in which reporters were both invited and shunned. The Ganahl campaign ludicrously explained that neither Ganahl nor […]
As the Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune reports, our arch-conservative neighbors to the north, wherein the sheep outnumber the people, are wasting no time following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, joining a growing number of red states banning abortion in virtually all cases: Gov. Mark Gordon certified Wyoming’s abortion ban Friday afternoon. “I […]
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest wave of a highly infectious subvariant of the Omicron flavor of the virus is surging across the planet–though due to the vaccines and better treatment options available in 2022 compared to two years ago, the rate of hospitalization and death is far below previous waves of the […]
This week in episode 115 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with Colorado State Treasurer Dave Young about all sorts of topics. Young explains how a State Treasurer impacts your life, from the Secure Savings Act to his idea for an “Infrastructure Bank” program. We also find out […]
Heidi Ganahl’s struggling campaign for governor held an event today in Aurora to roll out her second choice for lieutenant governor after the Las Animas County Commissioner Felix Lopez apparently declined, the ex-chair of the state’s congressional redistricting committee Danny Moore. Moore, as Ganahl’s campaign has spent every day since Monday’s announcement performing damage control […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Thanks to a law recently passed by Democrats, everyone in Colorado who filed an income return tax last year, no matter how much they made, will be receiving a $750 refund. But a Republican lawmaker says it would probably be “more equitable” to send bigger tax-refund checks to Coloradans with high […]
Regular readers of Colorado Pols know that we’ve long been critical of politicians who promise to make big cuts to taxes and/or government spending without offering a logical explanation for how they would balance out budget items for other necessary public functions. The problem is simple: If you remove a significant portion of revenue, what […]
Denver7’s Blair Miller updates us on the case of Barry Morphew, a Chaffee County man who has been cleared–for now–in the disappearance of his wife Suzanne Morphew on Mother’s Day 2020. This missing person case attracted a great deal of media attention over the summer of 2020, so when Chaffee County elections officials received a […]
The San Francisco Chronicle reported last night on a new study released by the University of California at Davis’ Violence Prevention Research Program, looking at the current attitudes of Americans with regard to political violence 18 months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 that tried and failed to obstruct the […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Sure enough, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports: Indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was to be re-arrested Thursday for allegedly violating the conditions of her bond. Peters allegedly did that when she included Director of Elections Brandi Bantz in an email she sent in the wee hours of the morning Wednesday […]
As Bloomberg Government reports, incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is out with his first television ad of the 2022 election cycle: Bennet’s re-election campaign will start airing its first TV ad of the cycle Thursday morning in the Denver and Colorado Springs media markets. It’s a $600,000 media buy… …In an interview Wednesday on Capitol […]
On Tuesday, the American League defeated the National League 3-2 in the 2022 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium. Viewership was reportedly down from last year’s All-Star Game, which took place at Coors Field in Denver after the event was pulled from Atlanta in protest of the state of Georgia’s new voting restrictions–vote […]
Earlier this week we wrote about how all three of Colorado’s Republican Members of Congress — Reps. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert, Ken Buck, and Doug Lamborn — voted NO on legislation intended to protect same-sex and interracial marriage. This is an important issue now because of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, in which Justices […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl was originally scheduled to hold her first public event today with Danny Moore, her running mate and Lieutenant Governor pick. The Ganahl campaign wisely rescheduled the Aurora event after remembering that today is the 10th anniversary of the Aurora Theater Shootings, in which 10 people were killed and 70 […]
At home in Colorado, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea is predictably racing to the center after surviving a primary in which O’Dea was forced to pander to the hard right on a range of issues. Free of the need to appease the GOP base, O’Dea is trying to position himself as a “different kind […]
As Caitlyn Kim of Colorado Public Radio reports: The House passed H.R. 8404, which would protect same-sex and interracial marraige, 267-157. More than 40 Rs voted for it, but not any from CO’s congressional delegation. Boebert – No Buck – No Crow – Yes DeGette – Yes Lamborn – No Neguse – Yes Perlmutter – […]
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Aurora Theater Shootings that killed 12 people and injured 70 others. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. […]
The press release went out Friday from Heidi Ganahl’s campaign, though most local media missed it: Heidi Ganahl is pleased to announce a new coalition of Colorado Democrats voicing their support for her campaign for governor. This group is made up of a growing number of Democrats who agree that Colorado is moving in the […]
Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos made news over the weekend when she told a “Moms for Liberty” event in Florida that she thinks the federal department she directed as recently as 2020 should be abolished altogether. Said DeVos: “I personally think the Department of Education should not exist.” This is not a new idea, […]
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!