(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%
The Colorado Republican Party has earned a reputation over the past year for intraparty intrigue and backstabbing beyond anything that would have been tolerated in previous years, relentlessly pushing the boundaries of meddling in their own primaries and attempting to weaponize the Libertarian Party to threaten insufficiently conservative Republican candidates. Last week, a motion was […]
In their endorsement last week of cornucopia of chaos Rep. Lauren Boebert’s GOP primary opponent, the Colorado Springs Gazette’s editorial board came full circle from their downright thirsty endorsement in 2020 in which they extolled Boebert’s “movie star looks” and “passion for freedom,” recognizing at long last that these attributes were not an effective substitute […]
Happy Constitution Day for our readers in Romania and [checks notes] Uzbekistan. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook […]
One of the principal criticisms of Colorado’s Tasmanian devil of controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert is that she spends too much of her time on wedge-issue grandstands and political sideshows like the half-baked impeachment of Joe Biden, and not enough time on issues actually pertinent to the people and economy of the vast expanse of Colorado […]
As you probably already know, Congressman Ken Buck (R-Greeley) is among the more than three dozen Republican incumbents in Congress who are not seeking re-election in 2024. That makes the fourth congressional district one of the more interesting races to watch in Colorado — at least through a Republican Primary Election — in an otherwise […]
The Colorado GOP’s new point man on election integrity, notorious election denier Ron Hanks, who kicked off his efforts by telling the Republican members of local election boards to refuse to sign off on certifying their county election results, escalated his rhetoric recently by calling Secretary of State Jena Griswold Hitler. He also convinced five […]
Don’t panic (or maybe panic): There are 20 shopping days left until Christmas. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us […]
We told you this was coming. Early last month, we took note of a story in the conservative-leaning Washington Examiner, a news site owned by Colorado billionaire and major Republican funder Phil Anschutz along with local newspapers including the Colorado Springs Gazette, critically assessing the damage done to vexatiously vulnerable GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert by […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The chair of the Colorado Republican Party says he doesn’t want civil war, but he’s sees one in America’s future under two scenarios: one, if courts remove Trump’s name from the ballot or, two, if “they’re successfully able to keep engaging” in blatant election fraud (even though Williams or other Republicans […]
Here’s a headline that most rational Republicans really, really, really don’t want to see in the next year: “Republicans Want to Repeal Affordable Care Act.” Unfortunately for the GOP, they’re careening toward this very problem because Donald Trump is going to keep talking about Obamacare…whether Republicans like it or not. Last weekend, the frontrunner for […]
The Iowa caucuses, to the extent that they still even matter, are just 49 days away. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
This morning, Colorado’s America’s most vulnerable incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert did something she in her term and a half in Congress has almost never done for local candidates who (at least at one time) could have used her help–an endorsement, not just for a fellow Republican but wading into a safe-seat GOP primary in […]
Colorado’s legislators returned to the Capitol yesterday, answering the Governor’s call for a special session to address skyrocketing property taxes following voters rejection of Prop HH. Progressives criticized the initiative in part for offering insufficient aid to the third of Coloradans who rent rather than own. In the first hearing of the session, House legislators […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Caitlyn Kim reports, the long sordid saga of serial fabulist who somehow managed to become GOP Rep. George Santos may finally be coming to an end after a damning Ethics Committee investigative report basically accused Santos of turning his entire campaign operation into a personal slush fund. Although Santos narrowly survived […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Ask many Colorado Republicans about their thoughts on U.S. elections, and you will hear a variety of answers. Some, like failed 2022 gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl, refuse to say in public what they told supporters in private. Others raise doubts about specific aspects of past elections, such as mail-in ballots or […]
As The Washington Post reports, the Senate is expected to vote soon on another “continuing resolution” so that the federal government does not shut down after midnight on Friday
The federal government will shut down just after midnight on Friday if Republican House Speaker “MAGA” Mike Johnson can’t work out a deal that will satisfy the competing factions of both the House Freedom Caucus and “reality.” In order to keep the lights on in this country, Johnson will likely be forced to resort to […]
UPDATE: NBC News reports that Democrats are warming to Speaker Mike Johnson’s continuing resolution proposal, potentially averting a shutdown at the end of the week and further isolating GOP hardliners like Rep. Lauren Boebert: After trashing the idea of a two-step strategy to fund the government, House Democrats signaled on Monday they are open to […]
The federal government will shut down one week from today as the clock ticks down on the Continuing Resolution (CR) that was the last legislative act of since-deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. New House Speaker Mike “No T” Johnson (seen here making what will likely become a permanent meme face) has been trying to keep […]
Here’s an email blast we were forwarded from America’s Most Vulnerable™ Rep. Lauren Boebert’s campaign to volunteers regarding upcoming “grassroots activist boot camp” events, part of Boebert’s desperate political revamp as her rendezvous–with destiny, not the fun kind–in 2024 looms larger on the horizon: The first thing you should notice here is the heavy emphasis […]
Last Thursday, as 9NEWS’ Marshall Zelinger reports, retiring GOP Rep. “KenSNBC” Buck testified remotely from Washington in the Denver District Court trial seeking to disqualify ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 Colorado primary ballot for his role in inciting the January 6th, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol and the associated plot to deny Joe […]
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog has one of the only news reports available on last weekend’s Colorado Republican Party annual fundraising dinner, headlined by Arizona election denier who nonetheless still wants to run in elections Kari Lake and Colorado’s leading coup groupie Rep. Lauren Boebert. Since the event was closed to […]
As we took note of last week, America’s most vulnerable Republican incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert has been the subject of a wave of political journalist “think pieces” analyzing in detail how her already-flagging campaign for a third term after winning her second by a mere 546 votes has been further damaged by “the Beetlejuice incident.” […]
As Joyce Cutler reports for Bloomberg Law News, former University of Colorado Benson Center Visiting Conservative Scholar and currently retained attorney for the Colorado Republican Party John Eastman had another very bad career day, with a California State Bar Court judge issuing a preliminary ruling in the case seeking Eastman’s disbarment for his role in […]
Predicting political outcomes is a tough task, in large part because there are so many variables that can change in a relatively-quick period of time that completely upend the conventional wisdom. A few key events can take something that might seem like an otherwise ridiculous premise (like, say, Donald Trump becoming President of the United […]
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