(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 our friends at National Journal’s Hotline, H/T to Lynn Bartels of the Denver paper: Michigan Republicans are getting a harder sell from candidates who want the opportunity to take on Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra may be the front-runner at the moment; the Holland Republican lost his bid for the gubernatorial nomination […]
Politico’s Juana Summers recaps a tough week on the GOP primary trail: There was no election-ending gaffe or singularly disqualifying remark. But [Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s] second consecutive weak outing set off alarm bells on the right, where too many cringeworthy moments raised questions about Perry’s durability, his seriousness and ability to compete on a […]
This is a letter I’m goign to send my peers in the high-tech community. Any suggestions appreciated. Hi all; K-12 education in Colorado is being decimated. The ongoing budget cuts are not cutting education to the bone, they’re lopping off major appendages. The future of Colorado will be determined by the educational level of our […]
FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports, tough to see a downside: Colorado Republicans will vote Saturday morning on a resolution to move its presidential caucus up to February, just one day after the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. GOP Chairman Ryan Call told FOX31 Denver that no decision has been made yet but that the idea seems to […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado journalism is taking yet another sad blow Sept. 30 when Bob Moore departs for a job in, I’m sorry to say, Texas. He’ll be Executive Editor at the El Paso Times. Moore is clearly one of the state’s leading journalists thanks to his fair-minded and detail-oriented reporting, as […]
In a post last week, I asked why Denver talk-show host Michael Brown airs, during the intro to his KOA radio show, the audio clip of Bush saying, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a Job.” I asked if Brownie was actually proud of the disastrous federal response to Hurricane Katrina. And I quoted a […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Today, the Reapportionment passed new State House and State Senate District maps. They will be sent to the CO Supreme Court for approval. There may be a little wiggle room for a court challenge, but I really don’t think one will be successful unless there is some issue that […]
Looks like somebody finally started reading the polls. Our friends at “The Fix” report on President Obama’s speech this morning rolling out his budget plan: In a remarkable act of political gauntlet-throwing, President Obama castigated House Speaker John Boehner for his approach to reducing the country’s deficit, called on Members of Congress to do what’s […]
AP updates from Friday: Colorado Republicans say a proposal to raise taxes by $3 billion over five years to help fund the state’s education system will harm an already fragile economy. Former state Rep. Victor Mitchell says the proposal on this November’s ballot would be “a crushing blow” to the Colorado economy if it’s approved. […]
CBS News reports on their new poll released Friday: As concerns about the struggling U.S. economy grow, a new CBS News/New York poll finds that President Obama’s overall approval rating has dropped to 43 percent, the lowest so far of his presidency in CBS News polling. In addition, his disapproval rating has reached an all-time […]
When President Obama addressed the joint session on Congress last week rolling out his new jobs bill (which hasn’t yet been introduced in Congress), he briefly addressed the continuing housing crisis which is hampering economic recovery. “We’re going to work with federal housing agencies to help more people refinance their mortgages at interest rates that […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Disclosure: I am one of the two formal proponents of the statewide initiative discussed in this post The 2012 statewide initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Colorado picked up a strong endorsement yesterday. As Scot Kersgaard of The Colorado Independent reports: The ACLU of Colorado Thursday announced it has […]
( – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) Advocates for school reform would do well to pay attention to what’s happening right now in Colorado Springs School District 2. The Background District 2 has jumped full speed ahead on the performance pay for teachers train, and it’s starting to look a lot less appealing a year in than […]
Challenging the wasteful spending and futile attempts to quantify and standardize Colorado’s educators. 1) Research demonstrates that performance cannot be predicted and that financial incentives have an insignificant impact on student test scores. In a climate of “evidenced based outcomes,” policy makers need to following the evidence? http://news.vanderbilt.edu/201… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07… http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/hand… 2) The estimated cost of […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Nine months into his first term in federal office, Colorado’s Third District representative has already staked out turf among DC’s most anti-environmental legislators. Troy Hooper reports in RealAspen: Colorado Conservation Voters issued a report Monday highlighting the poor environmental record of Tipton and his fellow Republican congressmen Cory Gardner […]
I don’t think too many people realize it, but Michael Brown is a regular weeknight talk-show host on Denver’s KOA radio. That’s, Michael Brown of “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” fame. And Hurricane Katrina fame. That’s not a little bit of fame. It’s a lot. I mean, he’s easily the most famous […]
After Friday’s disclosure of an upcoming fundraiser for the Larimer County Republican Party featuring Secretary of State Scott Gessler in a dunk tank–coming just weeks after Gessler’s office slashed fines owed by the same Larimer County GOP after years of mismanagement and the impending prosecution of the former chairman–editorial boards in Denver and Grand Junction […]
(But… but… tax cuts INCREASE tax collections! Because Reagan, that’s why! – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) A key component of President Obama’s American Jobs Act is to cut in half the Social Security taxes paid by employees and employers. This tax holiday doubles down the tax savings already in place for 2011. I have one […]
In this weekend to reflect, mourn, and contemplate the future, I’ll go to the Civic Center Party and then a multi-faith service at the request of Rabbi Joe Black. I’ll drive down Colfax and recall so many people no longer on the planet. I remember some drunks I used to know, like Bobby Broshears, who’d […]
If you haven’t seen them yet, here’s a wrap-up of responses from Colorado’s congressional delegation to last night’s presidential address–notable for an unusual lack of partisan bile compared to what we’re used to…well, any time President Barack Obama gives a speech about anything. Have poll numbers showing universal disgust with political grandstanding and obstruction in […]
(A little something fun for Friday – promoted by c rork) Howdy Polsters! I know a lot of you are from the Denver Metro area and to those of you who aren’t, some of you may be in town on September 17th so I want to invite you to a really cool and totally free […]
This falls in the category of small-minded media criticism, but when you consume the same TV and radio shows over and over again, the small stuff can start eating at your brain. That’s what the introduction to KBDI Channel 12’s otherwise excellent public affairs show, “Colorado Inside Out,” has been doing to me lately. The […]
(New idea: Every 10 years we give 10 randomly selected non-human primates from the Denver Zoo a marker and a map of Colorado. First to draw the right number of districts wins and those are the final, indisputable maps. About the same result. – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) The commission staff has posted two versions of […]
With contested GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney headed for an important debate this week, and a fundraiser in Denver Friday featuring a who’s-who of Colorado Republican luminaries, conservative columnist Mark Thiessen of the Washington Post asks some pointed questions–for starters, can Romney summon up the courage to take on Rick Perry in person? Romney advisers […]
(Rep. Daniel Kagan represents Colorado House District 3 – promoted by Colorado Pols) Having heard throughout the summer how badly Washington is broken, it made me think how much better we do things here in Denver. Maybe it’s that they have too much humidity up there in the nation’s capital to go with the heat […]
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