(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%
Last September, the Front Range urban region of Colorado was hit by the worst flooding in a generation. A freak storm parked over the mountains immediately west of Denver and Boulder, dropping over a year's worth of precipitation in a matter of days. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed, whole towns were cut off […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) KFKA talk-radio host Amy Oliver urged Republicans last week to read a Facebook post by former State Senator Shawn Mitchell, in which Mitchell wrote that he's "somewhere between distressed and appalled that GOP luminaries think it's a good idea for [Rep. Amy Stephens] to bear the party's standard into a campaign […]
("Santa Klutz?" Bob Gardner's not going to like this! – promoted by Colorado Pols) The Colorado-based Got Insurance campaign is back with holiday themed ads to encourage Coloradans to include health insurance in their holiday shopping list. The deadline on December 23rd to enroll for coverage that begins January 1st is fast approaching. Colorado has […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado’s Republican House Members Reps. Tipton, Coffman, Gardner, and Lamborn all just voted to cut Coloradans out of oil and gas decisions for public lands administered by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM). It's no wonder that the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy bill (HR 1965) is lauded […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby reports: Rep. Jared Wright is calling for an audit of the state’s new health insurance exchange. But the Fruita Republican isn’t asking the Office of the State Auditor to look into why the exchange is far behind its goal for signing Coloradans up for health insurance. Wright wants […]
If new polling released today from Democratic-aligned pollster Public Policy Polling proves accurate, Colorado is headed back to the future in 2014. PPP's new Colorado poll finds voters closely divided in their feelings about both Governor John Hickenlooper and Senator Mark Udall- but also that this could prove to be another place where Republicans waste […]
The 2012 election cycle was the first in a decade in Colorado that did not feature a major statewide race on the ballot (not including President, of course), which left many potential candidates for higher office cooling their heels for an extra two years. Combine that with the success of Democratic candidates in recent years; […]
As The Hill's Jonathan Easley reports: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected to release data later this month showing a “surge” in enrollees in the federal and state healthcare exchanges for November. The numbers are expected to surpass the paltry figures for October, when enrollments were hampered by an erratic HealthCare.gov […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them" ~Einstein I spent Father's Day of this year reflecting on the the challenges of Colorado's 4th Congressional District, a landscape of both abundance and scarcity. A land where federal programs have provided an abundance for some; for […]
Supporters of a recall of Democratic Sen. Evie Hudak have just a few more days (Dec. 1) to finish gathering petition signatures in hopes of getting a recall measure placed in the ballot in Arvada. But if you thought that might be the end of the recall season…think again. As we noted earlier, Republican Sen. […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Here’s what the Quinnipiac poll didn’t get: Colorado’s marketplace, as has been demonstrated on Channel 4 and other news outlets as well as the countless success stories, is working well and enrollments are surging. The enrollment rate has actually doubled – as many people enrolled in the first two weeks of […]
From the latest poll from Quinnipiac University out today, looking at approval of President Barack Obama, his signature health care reform law, and upcoming races for U.S. Senate in 2014 and for President in 2016: U.S. Sen. Mark Udall gets a split 44 – 44 percent approval rating, but voters say 47 – 41 percent […]
A fascinating story this weekend from the Denver Post's Michael Booth: More than two-thirds of the 250,000 people whose health policies the state Division of Insurance said last week were "terminated" have actually been offered renewals of existing plans through 2014, according to research by U.S. Sen. Mark Udall's office. Thousands more of those can […]
A press release from Sen. Mark Udall's office today: Citing the concerns of Colorado families recently notified of their insurance companies' decisions to cancel health plans, Mark Udall introduced common-sense legislation today that would allow Americans in the individual insurance market to retain their current health insurance. This bill keeps faith with consumers who want the […]
We understand that secession is an interesting topic this Election Day; after all, the idea of trying to secede to form a new state isn't something that you normally find on the ballot. But as conservative politicians increasingly try to distance themselves from the topic, we would remind our friends in the media and around […]
Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway, who’s been pushing for rural counties to secede from Colorado, admitted in a radio interview last week that “first and foremost” his secessionist campaign aims to let the world know “there’s a problem,” and, aside from secession, he’s got “ideas and suggestions to move this ball forward,” including ideas about […]
He, the dashing former frat boy in political ascension. Her, the striking accomplished politician: the daughter of an Ohio Governor, they became the nation's first-ever father/daughter pair in the United States after her election. She lead the Governor's Ethanol Coalition beginning in 2006; her "tough as nails" persona three-times defied efforts of a bought-off Kansas […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post's Kurtis Lee reports, Ken Buck is a "no" vote on secession: “I think the better strategy is to work to defeat the out-of-touch politicians causing this feel of separation,” said Buck, a GOP candidate in 2014 for U.S. Senate. Five Republicans have announced their candidacies and are vying to challenge incumbent Democratic […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) They're spending millions to win over an increasingly skeptical America. A campaign promoting Canada as a reliable supplier of oil and a “world environmental leader” in the field of oil and gas development. Never mind that a vast amount of their tar sands are now owned by China. Forget the fact […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The past 36 hours has been a canvas of the hope and challenges we have as a nation – a journey that began and ended in the shadows of the United States Capitol. I planned the trip. I didn't plan the experience. It started with a meeting on Monday evening with […]
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold reports: [In summer 2011], the GOP and President Obama agreed to set caps on annual spending and to set in motion a bigger, broader budget cut: sequestration. This was a massive cut — $85 billion in the first year — spread across much of the federal government… When the House […]
From time to time we engage in local media criticism here at Colorado Pols, and The Denver Post has been on the receiving end of a few barbs here and there. We try not to go overboard on media criticism, however, because in general we've always felt that the Colorado media does a fairly good […]
UPDATE #2: Washington Post: "We've been locked into a fight over here, trying to bring government down to size, trying to do our best to stop Obamacare," Boehner said. "We fought the good fight; we just didn't win." Boehner also said he would "absolutely" allow a vote on the Senate plan even if a majority […]
AP's Kristen Wyatt reported yesterday: Officials with Connect For Health Colorado said 226 people have signed up for insurance using the exchange, for a total of 305 people getting coverage. That's the tally from the exchange's first week, Oct 1-7. It's a smaller number than reported in other states running their own exchanges. Kentucky, for […]
UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Denver Post reports that incumbent Sen. Mark Udall raised another million dollars in Q3. —– FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports today, in the bottom half of a story about new U.S. Senate candidate Amy Stephens: On Monday, Hill’s campaign announced an endorsement from former Texas Congressman and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, a […]
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