(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%
(She don’t need you anymore — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Karin Zeitvogel is a co-author of this article — In late November, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Social Security Administration (SSA) staff the equivalent of ne’er-do-well couch-potatoes as she raked a senior Social Security Administration official across the coals during a House Oversight Committee hearing. […]
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Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette broke the news from Sunday’s vote of the Colorado Republican Party Central Committee, voting by a 65% margin to formally endorse ex-President Donald Trump for re-election two months ahead of our state’s Super Tuesday primary: The Colorado Republican Party endorsed former President Donald Trump’s bid for another term […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, that didn’t take long: In case you were wondering how long it would take for the shenanigans of the 2023 legislative session to show up in 2024, the answer is: Day 3. House Republicans launched a brief filibuster Friday morning over House Bill 24-1084, which […]
On this Friday before the federal holiday Monday commemorating civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Colorado House passed its customary resolution honoring Dr. King with lots of specification on both sides. In previous years, this resolution has witnessed more than its share of controversy, from the “sponsorship boycott” last year in which […]
The MAGA playbook lesson: When we can’t beat you by being a bully or being verbose charlatan, we will sue you – regardless of the will of the voters. All the better if you are a person of color. This is the MAGA definition of democracy: we can sue you and threaten you if we […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Yet another troubling headline from The Washington Post: As Tony Romm writes: Some of the roughly 5 million families who receive rental assistance from the U.S. government could see sharp cuts to their benefits — and even the threat of eviction — unless lawmakers in Washington can craft a budget deal that fully funds […]
Colorado Springs Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn announced last Friday that he would not be running for re-election in the fifth congressional district. If there was a mourning period for Republicans to mark his departure from Colorado politics, it was short; the field of candidates interested in CO-05 is growing rapidly. Ernest Luning of the publication […]
UPDATE #2: Looks like Rep. Lauren Boebert is off the hook, says 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark: —– UPDATE: Via Carol McKinley of the Colorado Springs Gazette, some insight on the new charges against Jayson Boebert. Unpleasant stuff: Arrest records obtained by The Denver Gazette show that the Boeberts’ teenaged son, who has a nine-month-old child, called […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) As soon as Lauren Boebert announced she was leaving her hometown congressional district in favor of redder pastures on the Eastern Plains, politicos began wondering whether the relatively unknown Jeff Hurd would be able to secure the Republican nomination without a better-known challenger jumping in the race. With the current state […]
The Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog wrapped up its annual Q&A sessions with Gov. Jared Polis and the leadership on both sides and both chambers of the Colorado General Assembly. All worth the moment it takes to read, but we wanted to start with Republican House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, recently announced candidate for Congress […]
(The war on furversion continues — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Heidi Ganahl, failed gubernatorial candidate and host of the “Unleashed” podcast, has a new project in the works, one that aims to help Republicans regain control in Colorado. The former CU regent has already secured significant funding from prominent GOP donors, including Walter “Buz” Koelbel, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Lauren Boebert burst into Congress on a wave of loving publicity from right-wing media outlets, including FOX News and Colorado talk-radio shows. Now conservative media are turning against her. Two Trump-backing media figures, Julie Hayden and Chuck Bonniwell, didn’t hide their anger at Boebert on their “Chuck and Julie Show” podcast […]
This year’s roundup of the biggest lies in American politics compiled by FactCheck.org, thicker than ever in 2023 from Hunter Biden to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., features two separate dishonorable mentions for Colorado’s factually antagonistic Rep. Lauren Boebert–the first being the President’s self-confessed failson: Involvement in Hunter Biden’s business deals. Immediately after Hunter Biden’s former […]
(What me, democracy? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Colorado GOP’s leadership will hold a vote in January to formally endorse former President Donald Trump. This decision takes place despite a number of obstacles, including a longstanding tradition of party neutrality in primaries and the fact that the state’s Supreme Court just ruled Trump is […]
Yesterday’s ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court disqualifying ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado based on Trump’s participation in an insurrection against the federal government on January 6th, 2021 has provoked a discomforting firestorm of backlash and even threats of secession and civil war from supporters of the ex-President. As the Colorado […]
UPDATE #2: Statement from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington celebrates today’s ruling: Donald Trump is disqualified from serving as president and barred from appearing on ballots for president in Colorado under the 14th Amendment, according to a Colorado Supreme Court ruling issued today in a case brought on behalf of six Republican and […]
As The Colorado Sun reports in its “Unaffiliated” newsletter: If voters casting ballots in Colorado’s Democratic presidential primary next year don’t like any of the candidates on their ballot, they’ll be able to choose what’s effectively a “none of the above” option. The Colorado Democratic Party added a “noncommitted delegate” choice to the March 5 […]
AP reporting via National Public Radio on the scandal engulfing the Florida Republican Party as well as the nationwide right-wing movement of concerned Karens known as Moms For Liberty, as the Florida GOP chairman is stripped of his pay and responsibilities over allegations of sexual assault stemming from the failure of what the 1980s band […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast: Bidenomics? Bidenflation? Bidenpeachment? What portmanteau can’t we create with the President’s last name? Our 8th favorite member of congress from Colorado is living it up in the big apple! Has Lauren Boebert given up on winning reelection or has she just not realized that New York City […]
awesome + uniting Colorado approves first two awards of refundable tax credits to boost chip manufacturing Nuggets’ “D” dominates Nets as Nikola Jokic makes more triple-double history Falling gasoline prices put a dent in metro Denver inflation awesome + controversy Colorado-based Cobalt Abortion Fund quadruples financial aid for people seeking abortions EV Colorado releases electric […]
If you haven’t seen the business headlines lately, the U.S. economy is so bad that the stock market hit a record high this week. Twice. As Reuters reports: U.S. stocks ended firmer on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average notching its second straight record high close, lifted by optimism that borrowing rates will decrease […]
Notable news this afternoon from the U.S. Supreme Court, which has declined to halt the implementation of new laws in the state of Illinois to ban firearms meeting the criteria of an “assault weapons” as well as (Colorado readers take note) the state’s new limit on gun magazine capacity. NBC News Chicago: The Supreme Court […]
It’s the news we’ve been anticipating ever since word first broke of Monument-based conservative whacktivist Darcy Shoening’s campaign to make Colorado’s the second state Republican Party to formally endorse Donald Trump, well in advance of the Super Tuesday primary. Unless you’ve been purposefully blocking it out, you already know Trump is leading the Republican primary […]
UPDATE: Colorado Rep. “CNN Ken” Buck, who has never made a decision that he didn’t reconsider several times a day, is now wavering on authorizing an impeachment inquiry. As Raw Story explains, Buck told CNN’s Erin Burnett that he doesn’t think there is any reason to attempt to impeach President Biden…but on the other hand, […]
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