(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%
From NBC News: The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that requires people to submit proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The vote was 7-2. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said that a 1993 federal law known as the Motor Voter Act takes precedence over the Arizona law […]
In a column for famously hard-right World Net Daily, GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo writes: Genuine border security will not be a part of the bill. Sadly, this kabuki dance around fake amendments is what passes these days for high-level debate in the United States Congress. And, of course, the outcome is tightly scripted and […]
UPDATE #2: With a deeper look at the poll, we find an interesting takeaway. —– UPDATE: A reader points out, for what it's worth, the partisan breakdown of this poll's respondents: Democrats 24%, Republicans 27%, unaffiliated 42%, other 7%–certainly a debatable "cross-section" of Colorado voters. Kevin Ingham of Strategies 360, a pollster we've turned to frequently in […]
A fresh report from the Christian right-wing American Family Association's One News Now: Bob Beauprez, the former 7th District representative, spoke to OneNewsNow about Tom Tancredo, the former congressman who announced in May he is running for governor. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, is currently serving his first term as Colorado governor. Beauprez recalls that Tancredo performed […]
MONDAY UPDATE: As the Colorado Springs Gazette's Megan Schrader reports, organizers of the recall election against Sen. Angela Giron will turn in roughly 13,500 signatures today–a much smaller margin than in Sen. John Morse's race, and less likely to survive validity checks by the Secretary of State's office. To put the ouster attempt on the ballot […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado’s 2013 Legislative Session is in the books, er, I mean binders. It was a doozy. Shit got done. Progress got made. And the women who make up 41% of the folks representing Coloradans at the Capitol were a huge reason why. We decided to take a look back at some […]
Over the weekend, the editorial board of the Denver Post weighed in on the Gubernatorial candidacy of Republican Tom Tancredo, who surprised many last week by throwing his hat in the ring for 2014. And what did the Post have to say? Well, they're about as excited for another Tancredo candidacy as a kid who […]
Setting the mood in a story last week from the Loveland Reporter-Herald: "The Democrats in the Legislature? Their three buzzwords were cooperation, collaboration and consensus," Gessler said. "Remember that? And what did we get? … They used to accuse Republicans of only caring about God, guns and gays. And what did the Democrats come up […]
As the Denver Post's Kurtis Lee reported late last night: Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, known for his strong stances on immigration, said late Wednesday night he plans to formally announce a run for governor on a conservative talk radio show Thursday. “This Dunlap thing is the last straw,” said Tancredo in a message. As […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols: If Colorado Republicans are looking for a fresh face to take on Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper next year, one of them just appeared. Out of nowhere. Well, Rhode Island, really. Steve Laffey, a former mayor and GOP Senate candidate who moved to Colorado just three years ago, has filed papers to […]
With the 2013 legislative session behind us, we've updated The Big Line with our latest projections. Of note: It looks more and more as though Republican Scott Gessler will run for Governor rather than Secretary of State (as we suggested last year), so we've moved his line "off" the board for SOS. With Gessler off […]
UPDATE: Washington Post's Greg Sargent: As Reid Wilson recently put it, the Colorado measure is “the Democratic comeback to voter ID.” Reform advocates who have been briefed on Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s plans tell me they expect him to sign the legislation tomorrow. The measure, which has cleared both houses in Colorado, contains a number […]
(Here come the recaps – Promoted by Colorado Pols) This year's session of the Colorado General Assembly was truly historic. After two years of divided control and stagnation in the legislature, a large backlog of high-priority, common-sense reforms awaited lawmakers in January. Working tirelessly in the face of right-wing obstruction, smear campaigns, and even threats […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports: The 20-15 vote, with all Democrats in favor of and all Republicans against the measure, came after a four-hour debate with almost every Republican senator arguing that bill will open up the state’s elections to rampant fraud. “You’re already winning the elections,” Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, said. […]
We've long passed the Q1 fundraising period for 2014, and while it is still early, there are quite a few candidates who have yet to even file an official candidate affidavit to run for office next year. Of course, there are several reasons why you might wait to mail that piece of paper. Republican Rep. […]
(Tell us how you really feel – Promoted by Colorado Pols) In The Denver Post over the weekend, former State Senate President John Andrews wrote that if Colorado has election-day voter registration, as proposed in the election-modernization bill winding its way through the State Legislature, Democrats would "presto" have "tilted the electoral playing field permanently […]
This video from locally-based conservative "gotcha" site Revealing Politics has been making the breathless rounds within conservative social media circles since the weekend. A new GOP tracker named Brandon Morse has been hanging out at the state capitol for the last couple of weeks monitoring hearings, and it appears in his spare time, he popped […]
Democrat Ken Gordon is currently the only Democrat registered as a candidate for Secretary of State in 2014, but is he really a candidate? It sure doesn't seem likely. Since filing his paperwork in December, Gordon has done little other than try to raise money for Democrat Andrew Romanoff in his bid for Congress in […]
After some six hours of debate that lasted well into the evening yesterday, House Bill 1303, the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act, passed the Senate State Affairs Committee on a party-line vote. Having passed the House, the bill appears increasingly certain to become law–that is, after Republican legislative opponents and Secretary of State Scott Gessler […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: And for good measure, NBC News' Rachel Maddow: —– UPDATE: Folks, you did realize NBC News' Al Sharpton was going to see this eventually, right? Holy crap: —– David Weigel of Slate is the latest national voice to weigh in on the growing controversy over mailers attacking Republican county clerks, sent by a group headed […]
UPDATE: Story now up at national progressive political blogs ThinkProgress and Huffington Post. —- A very important update today to the story we've been following of attack mailers sent into Mesa and La Plata counties this past weekend, going after Republican clerks for their support for House Bill 1303–the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act modernizing election procedures […]
Hat Tip to David T for noticing this was licensed to Getty Images. So I did some digging. Comments led me to wondering what exactly are the requirements for and agreements in using a licensed image, like the one from Getty used in the Hackstaff stamped smear mailer. And, unless the dirty-tricks dark money […]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is out with a statement this afternoon endorsing Colorado House Bill 1303, the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act being debated now at the state capitol–and condemning a mailer sent this past weekend attacking county clerks who support the bill. That attack mailer, as we discussed […]
Stunning numbers today from a new Public Policy Polling report show that Colorado Republicans would have a lot of digging to do just to get in a hole by 2014: With no serious Republicans running for either of these offices yet we basically tested every major GOP figure in the state against both Hickenlooper and […]
Excellent story today from the Durango Herald's Joe Hanel on the introduction of the comprehensive election modernization bill from Democrats, set to be introduced this week in the Colorado Senate: Even before it has been introduced, the bill has touched off a partisan fight. But La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican, supports […]
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