(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%
For weeks leading up to this past Saturday, the pundits crowed about the second Women’s March. There’s no way it would be anywhere near as big as last year’s, they said. The resistance is petering out, they said. Tax cuts for the wealthy bought off America, they said. They were wrong. An estimated 150,000 people […]
USA TODAY’s Herb Jackson points out something really, really obvious that we haven’t seen noted anywhere else as Sen. Cory Gardner presents himself as a peacemaker in the high-stakes battle over a short-term continuing resolution to prevent a shutdown of the federal government as early as tonight: Sen. Cory Gardner could not have been clearer […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On January 14, the Anschutz-owned Colorado Springs Gazette editorial board told Colorado Republicans: “clear the field“ for gubernatorial hopeful Walker Stapleton. Fellow candidate Tom Tancredo, the primary target of the newspaper’s “step aside” directive, took to the airwaves two days later to reply directly. Meanwhile on Facebook, numerous other Colorado Republican […]
The last time there was a federal government shutdown with one party in control of both Chambers of Congress and the White House, Jimmy Carter was President. It’s time to 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 […]
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” –Albert Einstein
The Colorado Hispanic Republicans hosted a forum for GOP candidates for Governor on Wednesday in Westminster, and while frontrunners Walker Stapleton and Tom Tancredo did not participate, there were several noteworthy moments (Stapleton was never confirmed for the event; Tancredo was apparently absent because of the flu). Republican candidates in attendance included Victor Mitchell, Cynthia […]
This is…strange, but par for the course for Cynthia “Wait, What?” Coffman: INBOX: Cynthia Coffman says she will petition onto the GOP primary ballot in the Colorado governor’s race. #copolitics — Jesse Aaron Paul (@JesseAPaul) January 17, 2018 This is the part where we tell you that Coffman has just $85,000 in her campaign bank […]
There are six candidates running for Attorney General in 2018 — and five of them are Democrats. Any Democrat not named Phil Weiser can really only hope to make the ballot via the caucus/assembly process because they won’t likely have enough money for petition gathering. SORE THUMBS (OR, WHAT STICKS OUT) Democrat Phil Weiser is really, […]
Veteran Denver Post reporter John Ingold banged out a beautiful tweet storm Monday about why it’s so important to subscribe to The Denver Post. Click here and do it now (first month is 99 cents), and here are Ingold’s tweets. (Ingold is the health and medicine reporter for The Post.) Ingold: Friends, we are undergoing an […]
For months Republicans have been shuddering at the thought of a terrible 2018 election year. The news got a lot worse on Tuesday night when a Democrat won a special election in Wisconsin for a state senate seat in a district that Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2016. As the Washington Post explains, Republicans significantly […]
Holding the powerful accountable and fighting for the rights of everyone is not always the easy choice. Here in Denver, a city considered progressive and innovative by so many yardsticks, there’s a conflict brewing between new growth occurring in the urban core of the city and the communities that thrived here for decades before it […]
Cold enough for ya? It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Fundraising reports for the last […]
“When did you stop beating your wife” is one of the most well-known “loaded questions” in the English language. In a strange new video, Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Lopez is the first politician in memory who actually answers that question. In this video posted to YouTube on January 7 by “Greg Lopez for Colorado Governor,” Greg and Lisa […]
The Mesa County Republican Party held a gubernatorial forum on Thursday night in Grand Junction that attracted every major Republican candidate to town. At some point during Thursday’s event, the Mesa County Republicans held a “straw poll” vote to express their preference among the GOP candidates for Governor. State Treasurer Walker Stapleton apparently won the most straws, […]
UPDATE: Nobody else is censoring the word “shithole,” so we stopped bothering to. Please excuse…well, everybody. We’re all in this together apparently. —– Denver7’s Blair Miller reports on an agreement between a small group of U.S. Senators including both Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet of Colorado on an immigration reform package that could in theory […]
We noted yesterday the announcement by accused serial harasser Rep. Steve Lebsock of Adams County that he would leave the Democratic House caucus, and praise he got from prominent Republicans that seemed to open the door to Lebsock seeking a haven in that party–either formally with a party change, or perhaps to caucus with the […]
Your three-day weekend is almost here. It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► The Colorado legislature […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Having waxed a little tongue-in-cheek about all of this yesterday (see below), we’re obliged to clarify that Rep. Steve Lebsock has not formally left the Democratic Party–at least not yet. Departure from the Democratic caucus combined with a warm welcome from Republicans makes that seem likely, but we’ll watch for the formalities to […]
We can’t promise that reading this will make you as brilliant as Donald Trump, but it’s a start. It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get […]
After almost a year of Trump in the White House, the resistance is shifting: not away from Trump, but toward every conservative politician who helped elected him and has enabled his disastrous first year as President of the United States. We’ve proven successful at slowing down Trump’s agenda, and stopping much of it in its […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In an appearance on KNUS 710-AM’s Jimmy Sengenberger Show Saturday, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman said recent U.S. economic growth came “in anticipation of tax cuts,” and without passage of the Republican tax bill, “the market would have tanked” and the U.S economy “wouldn’t be at 3.2 percent growth.” Coffman delivered these […]
Some politicians are just naturally good at saying the right thing at the right time. Others have honed this skill over many years on the campaign trail. And then there’s Cynthia “Wait, What?” Coffman. When it comes to making awkward statements that seem to make little strategic political sense — “I didn’t blackmail anybody” is a […]
Having climbed the ladder of elected office from the state legislature in the early 1990s, through two constitutional state offices as Treasurer and Secretary of State, and finally as a representative in Congress for going on ten years, Rep. Mike Coffman’s story is one of political survival that few others in politics anywhere in America […]
Smoke ’em if you got ’em. It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]
UPDATE: Attorney General Cynthia Coffman says don’t be alarmed…yet: Colorado AG Cynthia Coffman: based on convo with interim US attorney, doesn’t expect crackdown on legal marijuana market in Colorado. Continuation of targeting black and gray markets. @denverpost #COpolitics pic.twitter.com/tdGAsUMvap — Jon Murray (@JonMurray) January 4, 2018 Hopefully these words don’t come back to bite her […]
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