(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 Denver Post's John Aguilar reports: Republican officials conceded Friday morning that they won't be able to gain enough seats to take majority control of the Colorado House. They have scheduled elections to choose minority leadership positions at 1 p.m. Friday. House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, said he was gratified the party picked up […]
Or, “Why Mark Udall and Amendment 67 Both Lost in 2014” I was sitting in my living room a number of months ago, when a Udall commercial came on television and our wonderful Colorado senior U.S. Senator confidently and clearly articulated the word, “abortion”. “He’s going to lose”, I told my husband, “Mark’s going to […]
In order to understand what happened this week in Colorado's U.S. Senate race, which saw the first ouster of a sitting U.S. Senator from this state in decades, we return to a story that came out on Election Day by Politico's Neil Malhotra, titled "Why Do Voters Believe Lies?" The lede of the story? Colorado GOP Rep. Cory […]
UPDATE: Another call for Bennet's resignation at DailyKos. There are other contributing factors, including bright Red districts, but Betsy Markey and John Salazar's short lives as One Term Congresscritters/Congressional Blue Dogs evidently taught Colorado's state-wide electeds nothing. Both Michael Bennet and Mark Udall went the Blue Dog route at the start of Obama's presidency, and […]
(Can you blame him? – Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you follow Tom Tancredo you know he makes it clear where he stands on people, like Ryan Call (dislikes him), and places, like Mecca (bomb it). So, even as Republicans are still warm from hugging each other, it's no surprise that Tancredo is launching a […]
Eli Stokols of FOX 31 writes for Politico Magazine about one very unexpected development of this week's election in Colorado: how the GOP appears to have utilized the state's new all-mail ballot system, a reform they staunchly opposed in the legislature last year, to considerable success: What has been viewed as a partisan attempt by […]
A very important point to keep in mind is we are not fighting an enemy, we are competing with opponents. The Republicans are not evil, they don’t hate America, and they are not out to destroy the middle class. They have a different approach on fundamental questions, but that is why we have elections, to […]
UPDATE: In a message to supporters a short while ago, Republican Bob Beauprez concedes defeat: This is a different message to share with you than we had hoped. We have been watching the results as votes continue to be counted and unfortunately at this point, even with a handful of counties still reporting, there just […]
UPDATE: Governor's race appears unlikely to be decided anytime soon. You can probably go to bed if you're waiting on that one. —– UPDATE: AP calls the Colorado U.S. Senate race for Cory Gardner, presently up 51-44%. —– UPDATE 7:54 pm: 9News calls Attorney General for Republican Cynthia Coffman. So, good night if your last […]
Most media outlets have a policy that prohibits them from doing any hard-hitting news stories about a campaign once we reach the weekend before Election Day [insert obvious joke here]. It is a practice that we don’t disagree with, because it would be unfair to drop a bombshell accusation on a candidate in a news […]
There have been so many factually challenged campaign mailers this election season that most voters are inured to their claims–for good or ill, and maybe by design–of some organizations who have purposefully "flooded the zone" with so many shrill claims that voters tune out by sheer volume. One we were just forwarded today, though, provokes […]
UPDATE: A final memo from Mark Udall's campaign manager Adam Dunstone, who worked the 2010 Michael Bennet campaign, projects confidence as Democrats continue to chip away at the GOP's early ballot-return lead: The biggest difference between this year and Sen. Bennet’s race is that Colorado now mails ballots to every registered voter in the state. […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols has smart analysis up today about what's really going on with ballot returns in Colorado: Much is being made of the Republicans’ voter registration advantage in Colorado’s early voting, which inched from 104,000 Saturday to 106,000 on Sunday, seemingly a sign of yet another contested U.S. Senate battle tilting toward Republicans. […]
A sidenote to the riveting story this week about Denver teenage girls who were stopped in Germany on their way to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)–Democratic Rep. Daniel Kagan, who represents Cherry Hills Village in the Colorado House, played a role in the recovery of these teenagers before they made it to the […]
Somebody guessed wrong on Spanish-language television buys in Colorado. Was it Democrats…or Republicans? We haven't seen the hard numbers on this yet, but as it has been explained to us, 2014 has seen considerably more money spent on Spanish-language media buys than any other mid-term election (anecdotally, of course, it makes perfect sense). In […]
Partisan bickering is at its highest point as we approach Election Day, so it's refreshing to take a little break and recognize the hard work being done by candidates across Colorado. As National Journal reports, our own CD-6 is home to the two hardest-working U.S. House candidates in the entire country: Romanoff has arguably been […]
UPDATE: SurveyUSA released its final poll of 2014 today for the Denver Post, showing the gubernatorial race tied and the Senate race within two points: A poll conducted this week shows Gardner at 46 percent and Udall at 44 percent — a narrow edge within the four-percentage-point margin-of-error. The poll surveyed those who are likely to […]
"Joshua Sharf is a fiscal policy analyst for the Independence Institute, a free market think tank in Denver." From the Greeley Tribune article, October 29, 2014: "Sharf: Good and bad news for PERA in Colorado Supreme Court’s decision: "The Colorado Supreme Court granted some good news to the state’s troubled public pensions last week by […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: The Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby: Suppes said the town long has had a policy of allowing town trustees to use town hall for personal reasons as long as no taxpayer dollars are spent. “Under town policy, board members can use town hall free of charge,” he said. “We all have a key […]
A new poll from local consultant outfit Strategies 360 offers a different look at the Colorado U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, with a polling sample they consider to be more representative of the 2014 electorate in Colorado than most public polling we've seen–in particular, a more accurate sample of Latino voters. From their memo today: Strategies […]
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! –From William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
In 2010, public sector unions in Colorado supported a bill introduced at the Colorado Legislature, SB10-001, that diminished public pension rights previously deemed contractual under Colorado law, (see the cases Bills/McPhail.) The bill was challenged in court. Last week, after a long court battle, the Colorado Supreme Court reversed its long-standing precedent, ignored evidence (including […]
Former Vice President "Deadeye" Dick Cheney is in town tonight hosting a fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez at the swanky Cherry Hills Village home of Trish and Ken Green. Here's the invite, admission a bargain at $1,000 per couple to start: We recognize that this is the time in a political campaign when it's best to […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez's highly controversial appropriation of the murder last year of the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tom Clements, for use in his campaign has changed the outlook of this race with only days to go before the election. Beauprez's shrill and personal attacks on Gov. John Hickenlooper over Clements' death principally revolve […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports: One day after GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez released a TV ad citing last year’s murder of former Colorado Dept. of Corrections Chief Tom Clements’ as an example of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s failure to keep the state safe, Clements’ widow, Lisa, asked Beauprez to stop. “Mr. Beauprez, it is with […]
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