(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%
Welcome good news for Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts, the Denver Post reports: Colorado abortion opponents say they have enough signatures to put an abortion-ending proposal on the ballot this fall. Abortion opponents turned in more than 46,000 signatures Thursday. The group needs about 15,700 of those signatures to be deemed valid for the question to go […]
There are days when we feel genuinely bad for CD-4 also-ran candidate Tom Lucero, like at last week’s congressional debate–as reported by the Longmont Times-Call: For 90 minutes on Thursday, the four candidates for the 4th Congressional District in the Republican Party varied only slightly in their responses. Then Referendum C came up… Tom Lucero, […]
What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall for this event… Brought to you by the following five groups who have united for the Great Cause: • Northern Colorado Tea Party • We Will Not Fall 9-12 Fort Collins • Loveland 9-12 Project • Windsor 9-12 group • Longmont 9-12/Tea Party Gardner, […]
UPDATE #3: HB10-1351 passes Judiciary Committee 7-4. UPDATE #2:: Check out this list of likely NO votes. From what we hear, you can add Democrat Independent Rep. Kathleen Curry — a former co-sponsor of Payday Lending Reform — to the list of likely “NO” votes (Curry is not on the Judiciary Committee, but we’re keeping […]
Bad news for Democrats from the Secretary of State, reports the Grand Junction Sentinel: A proposed initiative for the 2010 ballot to define a person at the moment of conception failed to turn in enough signatures, Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher announced Wednesday. Buescher said the petitions, which were turned into his office Feb. […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The Northern Colorado Tea Party, one of the more engaged and better organized Tea Party groups in the state, is considering endorsements in key races, according to an e-mail the group sent out Monday morning. The endorsements would be decided by a poll being conducted on the Northern Colorado […]
Republican Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-2) believes African-Americans are worse off today than they were during slavery: “It seems like humanity is very gifted at hiding from something that’s obviously true. I mean in this country we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say, ‘Well how […]
Update: 3/20/10, 9:04am A statement I heard as a kid has always stuck with me – “making rules is easy, following them is hard.” In the case of the use tax the state is now putting a major emphasis on collecting this tax. Sounds simple and reasonable – no? So I just shot an email […]
As The Ft. Collins Coloradaoan reports: After years of claiming Colorado’s new oil and gas regulations will chase the energy industry and its jobs from the state, oil and gas operators and an industry group are now saying the rules will have little impact on future energy development here… …The new rules, which took effect […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) After years of claiming Colorado’s new oil and gas regulations will chase the energy industry and its jobs from the state, oil and gas operators and an industry group are now saying the rules will have little impact on future energy development here. link Scott McInnis was my congressman […]
You’ll enjoy this article in today’s Durango Herald: Democrats are ripping Republican state Rep. Scott Tipton for missing a tricky vote last week on the agriculture budget. The Cortez legislator called the charge “the ultimate cheap shot” because he was excused in advance for the vote. The spat offers a glimpse into how politically savvy […]
(Because I was sitting next to a NARAL representative in a packed room last night – promoted by Danny the Red (hair)) This week, Colorado’s House of Representatives is debating House Bill 1021 (Frangas and McCann, Foster), which can help increase healthy birth outcomes in our state. As amended this morning during second reading […]
(Just make the stuff up, Diggs–how does this compare with CD-4 opponent Cory Gardner’s birther-enabling? – promoted by Colorado Pols) A widely circulated — and debunked — e-mail urban legend has accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of demanding a 757 from the Air Force to fly her back and forth to San Francisco. You can […]
We’ve updated The Big Line now that all Q4 finance reports are available. Click below for a brief rundown of some of the changes. GOVERNOR Like it or not, elections are often just one big popularity contest, and in Colorado, there are few (if any) politicians who are more popular than Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. […]
The money is in the bank from the Q4 fundraising period (well, unless you’re Scott Gessler, that is, so it’s time again to present our Winners & Losers from the last quarter of 2009. WINNERS Sen. Michael Bennet (D) One year ago, many voters in Colorado were still trying to figure out who Bennet […]
Governor Line (R) Scott McInnis* (4-1) Has high name ID, vast political network, and while not exactly a rousing candidate or a “Washington outsider,” he’s the only legitimate candidate for this post on the GOP side. In a year that bodes well for the GOP, he may be the most vulnerable to defeat (among the […]
The more I think about it, the more worried I am about the answers in the 4th Congressional District GOP debate to the question “What’s your favorite constitutional amendment?” I liked the humor of Cory Gardner’s throw-away line, the 21st Amendment giving us the right to drink alcohol (esp. in the wake of the 2008 […]
There is not much about the health care reform debate that everyone – Democrats, Republicans and the unaffiliated – agree on. Except for one thing – they all hate health insurance companies. We may not agree on the solution to the health care mess, but everyone agrees on the villain. Which is why I was […]
As The Denver Post reports today, Colorado’s candidates for U.S. Senate will report vastly different results from the Q4 fundraising period: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet raised more than $1.1 million last quarter, nearly 3 1/2 times more than his Democratic opponent, Andrew Romanoff. On the Republican side for the U.S. Senate seat, Jane Norton collected […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) From my Coloradoan blog (for links, go to http://bit.ly/benFWs): When you’re running for office and don’t have a lot of money, you have to try to get as much “free media” as you can. One tried-and-true technique is to pick a fight and try for media coverage. It’s even […]
(Repromoted – promoted by Colorado Pols) FEC Numbers rolling in so I am tossing them up CD 1 – No Repub Filed CD 2 – No Reports Filed Yet CD 3 –1 – Vote Tipton.Com – Updated 10:44 Raised 109,981.00 – Spent 4,407.75 – COH – 102,371.71 CD 4 – 1 – Gardner for […]
Scott McInnis 2-1. On the attack. J. Hickenlooper 4-1. Off to a confusing, muddled start. Dan Maes 100 – 1 Jane Norton 2-1. Momentum is with her. She’ll get women’s votes. Michael Bennet 6-1. Left wing Obama Democrat. Ken Buck 10-1 Can Tancredo and Ron Paul give him momentum? Andrew Romanoff 20-1. Monday we’ll know […]
We don’t have time this morning to link to all the occasions in the last year where Republicans like gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis have claimed that new oil and gas drilling protections which took effect last spring are “killing the industry” and “costing jobs.” They’ve said it so many times that it would be, well, […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) By now it is a tired refrain, that Republican candidates apparently still view as golden, to bemoan the death of the oil and gas industry in Colorado. They then lay the perennial and predictable problems wrought by the cyclic and highly volatile nature of commodity economies at the feet […]
From Sunday’s Denver Post interview with Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, there’s so many softballs for us to swing at that we don’t know where to start: Politicians dream of the kind of press that gubernatorial candidate Josh Penrygarnered in recent months. Fox News reported Penry was ready to lead a national comeback of the […]
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