(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 Colorado Sun’s Mark Jaffe reports today, three years after the passage of Senate Bill 19-181, legislation reforming the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s mission to prioritize public health over fostering growth of the oil and gas industry, the full effects of the law are becoming apparent. And contrary to the dire warnings […]
Last Tuesday’s victory in the Republican primary by candidates for U.S. Senate and governor openly backed by the party elite over their MAGA grassroots opponents has given rise to a media narrative that money spent by Democratic-aligned interests to promote underfunded grassroots Republican candidates was a strategic failure. But the truth is that irrespective of […]
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This week in episode 113 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii run through the big Primary Election results with the help of University of Denver professor Seth Masket, director of the Center for American Politics. But first, Jason and Ian admit freely that WE WERE WRONG about our predictions […]
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.” — Julian Barnes
(Republished by Colorado Pols under a Creative Commons license) by Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline June 30, 2022 A common response to the Colorado primary election results this week was to remark that Republican voters rejected the election conspiracists, returned the party to the mainstream, signaled support for the establishment over the fringe. It’s true that […]
Colorado Pols and “The Big Line” apparently came up this week during a discussion about the Primary Election on “The Conservative Daily” podcast featuring right-wing activists Joe Oltmann, Ashe Epp, and Jeff O’Donnell. We were also cited by the right-wing website “Gateway Pundit” in a similar manner. Before we get to “The Conservative Daily,” here’s […]
The Republican primary for Colorado’s Third Congressional District was a major disappointment for anyone hoping that Colorado Republicans can police their own to the same extent that North Carolina Republicans were able to rid themselves of top-tier congressional disgrace Madison Cawthorn. Freshman perpetual outrage machine Rep. Lauren Boebert shellacked her Republican opponent Sen. Don Coram […]
When the ‘Omicron’ variant of COVID-19 was dominating headlines earlier this year, it was often described by experts and media outlets as being a more contagious but generally less severe form of the virus compared with the earlier ‘Delta’ variant. Some even said that ‘Omicron’ was more “moderate” than ‘Delta.’ Still…nobody wanted to get infected with […]
Republicans selected Hiedi Heidi Ganahl to be their nominee for Governor this fall against incumbent Democrat Jared Polis and American Constitution Party hopeful Danielle Neuschwanger. Ganahl has thus far seemed uninterested, unable, or unwilling to pivot toward a broader group of Colorado voters, but that may not matter much according to one national projection. As […]
Fresh off her victory in Tuesday’s Primary Election, Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl made an appearance today on “The Ross Kaminsky Show,” which was guest-hosted by conservative blowhard Jon Caldara. We would think that Ganahl would want to pivot her narrative toward a broader General Election audience now that the Primary is over, but […]
We haven’t heard a whole lot from Danielle Neuschwanger since the former Republican candidate for Governor decided to take her talents to the American Constitution Party for the General Election. Neuschwanger will be running for Governor this fall against Republican Hiedi Heidi Ganahl and incumbent Democrat Jared Polis. Or, perhaps, Neuschwanger is running against BOTH […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports on last night’s plurality victory in the Republican Secretary of State primary for Pam Anderson, the former Jefferson County clerk whose milquetoast campaign proved just enough to prevail against a majority of “Big Lie”-believing GOP primary voters who split their support between two “Election Truther” opponents: In one of […]
The Denver Post’s Alex Burness reports on the relatively narrow victory last night by Heidi Ganahl over ex-Parker Mayor Greg Lopez in the Republican gubernatorial primary, with Ganahl squeaking out ahead of the baggage-laden Lopez by a 53-47% margin: Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and the only Republican here still standing in statewide elected […]
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UPDATE (8:00 pm): We’re still waiting on full results, but it looks like these candidates will win: ♦ U.S. Senate: Joe O’Dea ♦ Governor: Hiedi Heidi Ganahl ♦ Sec. of State: Pam Anderson ♦ CO-03: Lauren Boebert ♦ CO-05: Doug Lamborn ♦ CO-07: Erik Aadland ♦ CO-08: Barbara Kirkmeyer —– UPDATE: Here’s the latest ballot return […]
Republicans are waiting to find out who will be their nominee in CO-07, as Tim “Demon Guy” Reichert, Erik Aadland, and Laurel Imer finish out a long Primary campaign tonight. In the meantime, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is sending out nonsense statements to media outlets alleging that Democrat Brittany Pettersen is fully aware […]
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection held a surprise hearing today that included several new bombshells further implicating former President Trump and top advisers. The main witness today was Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who was privy to many of the innermost discussions […]
As the Denver Post’s Conrad Swanson reports, nobody peels the issue down to the metaphorical tighty whities quite like Colorado’s freshman GOP outrage-seeking missile Rep. Lauren Boebert, speaking before a church audience Sunday fresh off the high of Roe v. Wade’s repeal by the U.S Supreme Court: Boebert’s comments, made Sunday to a crowd at […]
Over the years at Colorado Pols we’ve frequently run totally non-scientific polls (like this one) asking readers to tell us who they think will be the victor in a particular race. We do this to get a sense of how perceptions might be shifting in a particular race, but we’ve also found that Polsters have […]
The New York Times has a feature-length profile up today on Colorado Republican Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters, who is by all metrics the frontrunner in tomorrow’s primary for the GOP nomination despite facing multiple criminal charges related to a breach of election system security on her watch in Mesa County in a failed […]
UPDATE: Somehow Hiedi Heidi Ganahl found a way to make this all even weirder: —– Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl is not exactly projecting confidence ahead of Tuesday’s Primary Election showdown with Greg Lopez: New: Heidi Ganahl won’t host a public watch party tomorrow. She’ll watch with “family and supporters at a home in […]
Last Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade precedent and end the constitutional guarantee of abortion rights in America is, for many religious conservatives including the chair of the Colorado Republican Party Kristi Burton Brown, the fulfillment of a principal lifelong political objective. As Denver7’s Meghan Lopez reported […]
Political pundits often attempt to connect voter turnout numbers in a Primary Election as some sort of harbinger of things to come in a General Election. Most of the time there is little correlation between the two elections, and that is particularly true in 2022. The Colorado Secretary of State’s office released ballot return numbers […]
UPDATE: After radio silence all morning, here’s the statement from Joe O’Dea on the overturning of Roe v. Wade: I support nationwide limits on late term abortion and a massive effort to promote and expand adoption, but I don’t support a total ban early on in a pregnancy. I know social issues are important to […]
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