(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 question of whether or not polling of Colorado voters is accurately sampling the 2014 electorate is perhaps the biggest unknown in the current election cycle. In Colorado's U.S. Senate race, polling has shown Republican Cory Gardner with a small but consistent lead since the beginning of October. The Real Clear Politics average of polling […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post's John Frank has a new story up as the Beauprez's IUD controversy grows: Beauprez drew a rebuke from experts in the medical community who called his assertion false, while Democrats and like-minded women's rights organizations suggested it showed the candidate is out of touch. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and […]
An hilarious animated .GIF clip forwarded to us of Rep. Mike Coffman at Denver International Airport last Thursday: According to the source of this clip, Rep. Coffman was standing nonchalantly at his gate when the impulse grabbed him to drop and start doing…folks, would you actually call those pushups? There appears to be some debate on […]
We talked earlier about the disastrous anti-Obamacare hearing that Republicans held today in an Energy and Commerce subcommittee (of which Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner is a member). Republicans tried grilling insurance executives over Obamacare in order to pull out some juicy sound bites…but they had a difficult time getting answers to questions that, quite frankly, […]
Republican Senators today blocked an effort to move forward on legislation to increase the federal minimum wage, an issue that should nevertheless help Sen. Mark Udall draw a sharp contrast with Republican Rep. Cory Gardner in November. From NBC News: A Democratic bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 was met with overwhelming […]
We might have predicted it, but here are the details from Sen. Greg Brophy's gubernatorial campaign site: To help spur safe gun ownership, my campaign has decided to giveaway a Smith & Wesson M&P15. I took the time to make a few modifications myself, including: MVG vertical grip MOE+ grip – AR15/M16 MBUS folding rear […]
Interesting series of events today in our nation's capitol. From NBC News: The House has passed a "clean" extension of the debt limit. Twenty-eight Republicans joined all but two Democrats to approve the extension of the debt limit until March 2015 — without any additional legislative wish list items attached… …Republicans had wanted to attach […]
In a year in which Republicans are having trouble fielding exciting candidates for U.S. Senate or Governor, it should come as little surprise that they aren't going to put up a strong candidate against incumbent Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter in CD-7. As Lynn Bartels noted in "The Spot," Republican Don "Can I Buy a Vowel" […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On KNUS radio last week, Rep. Cory Gardner was pressed on whether he'd try again to block an extension of the debt limit to stop Obamacare. His answer surprised me: Gardner: "I don’t think threatening with the debt limit is a good idea. I think that has proven to not work." Afternoon KNUS host Steve […]
Little additional commentary needed for this clip of video yesterday from 112th and Sheridan in Westminster: That's former Congressman Tom Tancredo, Republican candidate for Governor of Colorado. You may consider the debate over the recall of Senator Evie Hudak thusly elevated.
(Where does it end? – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Operating in a reality that few people understand, during a typical one-sided pile-on in support of the recall of Sen. John Morse, talk-radio host Peter Boyles takes calls from "Ray" and "Tom" on KNUS radio today. Both are contemplating voter fraud. And, in case you wonder […]
CleanSlateNow.org just released their third story on how special interest PAC money influences Congress. The first two focused on Republican Mike Coffman and Democrat Diana DeGette. This one is about Cory Gardner. Here is an excerpt: “The Colville River flows through much of the Brooks Range. Alaska’s largest Arctic River is home to 20 fish […]
Talking Points Memo's Dylan Scott reports, for what it's worth: Colorado officials say they believe they have “tacit approval” from the U.S. Justice Department to implement voter-approved laws legalizing marijuana. “We seem to have tacit approval at this point,” State Sen. Pat Steadman, a Democrat who co-sponsored two bills establishing the state’s regulations for recreational […]
(Sort of fascinating – promoted by Colorado Pols) There’s a talk-radio show in Colorado Springs called “Black, White, and Right.” "Black" because one of the show’s hosts is the African-American founder of Rocky Mountain Black Tea Party, which has the tough job making the conservatism more appealing to African-Americans. "White" because one of the co-hosts […]
Connoisseurs of the immigration debate in Colorado are familiar with Helen Krieble’s “Red Card Solution,” which originally envisioned undocumented immigrants marching out of the U.S., getting a work permit from a private company, and then returning to the U.S. And all of this would be handled by the private sector. Krieble’s plan has been getting […]
There are 65 members of the Colorado House of Representatives, and 35 members of the Colorado State Senate. The Colorado legislature as a whole is a representative body, with each Senator representing about 143,691 constituents, and each House member standing for 77,372 Coloradans. The Colorado Constitution outlines the makeup and duties of the state legislature, […]
By now, you have certainly heard that the State of Colorado is trying to break its contracts. A majority of Colorado legislators actually voted for a bill (in 2010) that claws back accrued, contracted benefits from pensioners in their home state. This is odd, since the Colorado Legislature has also recently enacted a pension reform […]
(This is objectively cool – promoted by Colorado Pols) KOA’s Steffan Tubbs has become the leading media voice in Colorado for U.S. troops. Other local media figures cover the military, including Denver Post photographer Craig Walker, who won a Pulitzer in 2012, but Tubbs gives military personnel regular coverage, in different media platforms, and he […]
Three years ago, the Colorado Legislature and its pension administrator Colorado PERA hit upon the idea of reducing state debt by taking back accrued public pension “COLA” (cost-of-living) benefits from retirees in the pension. They retroactively seized these accrued pension benefits in a bill, SB10-001. The members of the Colorado PERA pension whose COLA benefits […]
FOX 31’s Eli Stokols: Mitt Romney will campaign in Denver Sunday and Monday as his campaign looks to increase the pace of daily rallies and events in an effort to shift the trajectory of the race for the White House. The Romney campaign confirmed Thursday that all of the events on the visit – Romney’s […]
The Hill, though you’ve probably already seen it this weekend: President Obama’s campaign on Saturday unveiled a new television ad airing in key swing states, which hits GOP candidate Mitt Romney over Planned Parenthood funding and contraception. The ad is the latest in a series of web and TV blasts as Obama and Democratic allies […]
Source: AP The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has given Secretary of State Scott Gessler permission to use SAVE — Systematic Alienation Verification for Entitlements — to check citizenship status on thousands of Colorado voters. The system is currently used by government programs such as Medicaid to determine who is, and who is not, eligible […]
(No, not Brownie – promoted by Colorado Pols) If you’ve been listening to President Obama lately, you know he talks a lot about Americans helping each other out, having each other’s backs, and creating opportunity for those who deserve it. This obviously contrasts with the themes you hear a lot from conservatives, who are all […]
Charlie Cook gives Democratic CD-6 challenger Joe Miklosi a most favorable heads-up: CO-06: Mike Coffman (R) – Denver southeast suburbs: Aurora, Littleton Toss Up. Democrats scored a huge coup in Colorado redistricting when a state judge picked a map moving GOP-leaning Douglas County out of the 6th CD and uniting the increasingly Democratic suburb of […]
Between watching two good Republicans, state assemblyman Nathan Fletcher and former assemblyman and current Congressional candidate Anthony Adams, leave his party and writing his memoirs, the Governator can’t help but notice the decline of his party. Shocking, right? In a recent opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times he points out that traditional Republicans compromise […]
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