(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%
Interesting stuff from Lynn Bartels at "The Spot" late last night: Secretary of State Scott Gessler is the winner of a straw poll for gubernatorial candidates conducted during Tuesday night’s GOP precinct caucuses, although results are incomplete and not every county asked for a show of hands. Former Congressman Bob Beauprez only entered the race […]
As you may have read in the New York Times this week, Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is front-and-center in another controversy over "extraordinary measures" taken in recent years to protect national security: The Central Intelligence Agency’s attempt to keep secret the details of a defunct detention and interrogation program has escalated a battle between the agency […]
We suppose it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. From Politico: Momentum is building in Congress to wield the United States’ vast natural gas resources to break Vladimir Putin’s energy stranglehold over Ukraine — although some lawmakers acknowledged their efforts would have no immediate impact on the crisis in Crimea. […]
As the Denver Post's Jason Blevins reported yesterday: Rocky Mountain National Park ranked as the sixth-biggest loser among the parks and monuments shuttered during the federal government's closure last fall. The 16-day shutdown cost Colorado's busiest national park $10.9 million, with visitation plunging 73 percent in October compared with the previous three Octobers, according to […]
UPDATE #3: FOX 31's Eli Stokols: State Rep. Tim Dore, R-Elizabeth, confirmed Monday that he was still thinking about a run; and Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, is rumored to be weighing a campaign in the Fourth C.D., which now includes a good chunk of his home turf in Douglas County, although another GOP lawmaker […]
From FOX 31's Eli Stokols: Bob Beauprez, the former congressman and 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate, is preparing to enter the governor’s race next Monday, multiple sources confirm to FOX31 Denver. Beauprez, who’s been hinting at a run for weeks and hoping to reach a deal for Tom Tancredo to leave the race, has been telling […]
UPDATE 5:30PM: Multiple sources now confirming Scott Renfroe will indeed challenge Ken Buck for the CD-4 GOP nomination. —– UPDATE: Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post Tweets that state Rep. Tim Dore may also consider a run for CD-4 against Ken Buck. And from Lynn Bartels: Other names in CD4: Weld Co Comm. Sean Conway, gov of […]
The news is certainly not unexpected after yesterday's flurry of activity, but Rep. Amy Stephens lays on the bullshit pretty thick with Lynn Bartels of the Denver Post: State Rep. Amy Stephens was in the midst of a fundraiser Monday night for her Senate bid when she got a text message from her close friend, […]
Republican Ken Buck has been a pretty bad candidate for the U.S. Senate up until this point, which is why he has agreed to drop out of the race and run for the now-open House seat in CD-4. But it would be so un-Buck like to just walk of the statewide stage without missing a […]
Just as we did with last week's debate among Republican candidates for Governor, Colorado Pols will be live-blogging the GOP debate among U.S. Senate candidates. *IMPORTANT NOTE: Unless indicated by quotations, everything below is paraphrased in the interest of time. FINAL ANALYSIS: There was quite a contrast among the main contenders here (Buck, Hill, and […]
We haven't seen much publicity for this, but the next Denver Post GOP primary debate is coming up next Tuesday evening, featuring the large field of candidates vying for the chance to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in November. The bar for participating in this primary debate appears pretty low, with minor candidates […]
AP via the Denver Post: Gay couples in Colorado who are married in another state and in a civil union here could file joint state tax returns under a measure headed to the governor's desk. The Colorado House passed the measure Monday on a largely party-line vote with Democrats in favor. The bill already cleared […]
This is the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse. He/she looks harmless enough, but last week it inadvertently gave cause for three Republicans to go, well, mouse-shit crazy. The mouse itself isn't all that interesting (unless you're into that sort of thing), but the non-scandal that played out over its status as an Endangered Species is a […]
The latest polling on the Colorado Senate race was released on Thursday from Quinnipiac University, and while the head-to-head matchups normally get the headlines, we've always looked more closely at approval ratings as a stronger barometer of election outcomes. The head-to-head matchups are fun to note, but they are often little more than snapshots of […]
(Whee! – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Here are some of the bills we can look forward to seeing die this week. Special note is given to the nearly identical bills to repeal the magazine capacity limit from last year being heard in both the House and Senate committees this week. Also worth noting is Jared Wright's […]
The same Quinnipiac University Polling Institute that delivered good news for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper yesterday brings a somewhat different message today for the campaign of incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall: With large gender gaps, Colorado voters approve 45 – 41 percent of the job Sen. Mark Udall is doing, but are divided 42 – 42 percent […]
Alex Altman writes for TIME Magazine: Reformers have spent months waiting for House Republicans to lay out a plan to rewrite U.S. immigration law. Now that the GOP has finally made its move, they can’t agree what to make of it. The blueprint released Thursday is “a game changer,” according to Tamar Jacoby, president of […]
Yesterday, House Bill 14-1192 was introduced and assigned to the House Public Health Care and Human Services and Health, Insurance, and Environment Committees: In 2010, pursuant to the enactment of federal law that allowed each state to establish a health benefit exchange option through state law or opt to participate in a national exchange, the general […]
Colorado Republicans, particularly U.S. Senate candidate Amy Stephens, have been working hard over the last month to damage the credibility of incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in regards to the Affordable Care Act. In late 2013, Udall's office began questioning the accuracy of a number put out by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) […]
As the Denver Post's Allison Sherry reports: Gauging from the response to last night’s State of the Union address among Colorado’s Republicans, you wouldn’t think Rep. Mike Coffman is amid a re-election battle in a dramatically changed, bluer district. [Pols emphasis] Coffman, R-Aurora, skewed sharply partisan after the president’s speech late Tuesday. In his canned statement, […]
A great story from the Colorado Independent's John Tomasic late Friday explores another significant problem for GOP U.S. Senate primary contender Amy Stephens. Despite a growing amount of support for Stephens from local GOP insiders (and, most suspect, DC-based Republican heavies like the National Republican Senatorial Committee), Stephens' candidacy has failed to gain traction with rank-and-file Republicans. […]
UPDATE: A blast from the past–from the May 9, 1992 edition of the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, here is a far less reverent state Rep. Mike Coffman when it came to honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As written by John Sanko and Fawn Germer in their recap of "Unforgettable Moments of the '92 Legislative Session." […]
POLS UPDATE: State officials say that not only was Sen. Udall not intimidating the State's Department of Insurance in asking about the validity of policy cancellations, he was also HELPFUL in his questions. So much for that outrage. From Fox 31: In separate letters Tuesday afternoon, Commissioner Marguerite Salazar and Barbara J. Kelley, the executive […]
Last Tuesday, we took note of a spoof story on a satire "news site," The National Report, hilariously breaking the scandalous news of food stamps being accepted at Colorado's new retail marijuana stores: “If you are a tax payer in Colorado, you get to pay for welfare recipients, a majority of whom are Democrats of course, to […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you want to convince the hosts of KLZ's Grassroots Radio Colorado that you're a true conservative, you have to do more than just say you're categorically opposed to raising the U.S. debt limit, as U.S. Senate candidate Randy Baumgardner did just before Christmas, saying on the radio that he'd "definitely […]
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