(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 118th Congress seems destined to go down in history as one of the least productive two-year periods in decades…which leads to the obvious question of what this will mean in the 2024 election cycle. Much of this dysfunction has to do with the ridiculous antics in the House of Representatives, which Republicans have turned […]
With a major snowstorm bringing public business to a halt along the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains today, we recall some moments in time when Colorado’s infamously fickle winter weather had political effects that endured long after the snow and ice had melted away. Longtime residents will recall the great Christmas Blizzard of […]
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” –Voltaire
UPDATE: Okay, bear with us because this is confusing… Governor Polis has called a special election in CO-04 to align with the June 25 Primary Election already scheduled. This makes sense, because it saves the state money by not requiring county clerks and the Colorado Secretary of State to conduct two separate elections within a […]
Republicans in the Colorado House of Representatives waste a MASSIVE amount of time talking about ridiculous ideas, making utterly disgusting speeches, and allowing folks like Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf to mutter big words he recently gleaned from a thesaurus. No subject is too far out of bounds for the GOP micro-minority. Democratic House Speaker Julie […]
“I think all good reporting is the same thing–the best attainable version of the truth.” –Carl Bernstein
Newsweek reports from carpetbagging crusader Rep. Lauren Boebert’s latest check-in with coup plotter and hirsute layer-dresser Steve Bannon, whom we’ve always known was an idol of Boebert’s…but now it’s, well, official idolatry: Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has said that former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon is considered a “god”. In conversation with Boebert on his […]
President Biden delivered a passionate State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Thursday that was more political than most but appeared to hit all of the right notes. As The Hill newspaper reported on Sunday, even former Biden detractors were applauding his SOTU remarks: New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands […]
As we noted on Thursday, House Republicans made a lame attempt to convince House Speaker Julie McCluskie to allow them to waste yet more of the legislature’s time by attempting to discuss impeachment proceedings for Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Republicans love to publicly attack Griswold because it makes their election fraud-obsessed MAGA base all […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This week, the Colorado Title Board approved two ballot initiatives targeting transgender people in Colorado. “Public Athletic Programs for Minors,” which would require transgender athletes to compete according to their sex assigned at birth in school or intramural athletics, and “Prohibit Certain Medical Procedures for Minors,” which would ban gender-affirming care […]
As ABC News reports–although Colorado’s struggling Rep. Lauren Boebert didn’t manage to disrupt President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last night as feared, ceding the spotlight in that regard to a MAGA hat-wearing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Boebert did raise some eyebrows for her deja vu-inducing face time with none other than expelled […]
Via Raw Story’s Brad Reed, former Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, now a talking head for the Fox News Channel with a reputation for taking the occasional dunk on his former Republican colleagues, speculates about one of the things we’re also pondering–in what could be Rep. Lauren Boebert’s final appearance at a Joe Biden […]
UPDATE: Fields responds to this post by effectively saying, In order to prove my original argument, here is more of the same argument! —– Republicans in Colorado and across the country are using immigration reform as one of their top issues as they campaign for public office in 2024. These Republicans know that fear-mongering and fist-shaking […]
We interrupt our coverage of Colorado political news for this big story from our caddy-corner neighbor to the southwest: Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who disaffiliated from the Democratic Party after emerging as a major roadblock to the Senate majority’s agenda two years ago, will retire instead of running for another term. Washington Post: Sen. Kyrsten […]
Today is Aerospace Day at the Colorado State Capitol, and some of the major defense and space exploration companies with Colorado ties are in the building today handing out cool swag like the United Launch Alliance’s “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” keychains and general goodwill on behalf of the economically significant military-space-industrial complex. Not surprisingly, some left-leaning […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Under questioning from a hard-line abortion opponent this morning, a Colorado congressional candidate said he’d support a national abortion ban, performing a perfect flip-flop from his answer to the exact same question in January. Asked by KNUS radio host Jeff Hunt this morning if he’d support a “national ban on abortions” […]
UPDATE: As expected, Bottoms’ “personhood” bill failed to make it out of committee. —– Republicans are in dangerous place, politically-speaking, on the issue of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and so-called “personhood” legislation that seeks to give a zygote the same rights as a walking, talking human being. Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Scott “There is No” Bottoms […]
Holy crap! There is so much happening in the political world today that there’s no possible way for us to get to everything without returning to this Get More Smarter format. So let’s do that. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you […]
The last remaining Republican primary challenger to ex-President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, has so far made good on her pledge to stay in the race after badly losing her home state, appearing today as promised at a campaign rally Centennial’s Wings over the Rockies museum: Haley managed what could be considered […]
The Republican micro-minority caucus in the state legislature is very sad about the failure of yet another bill from Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs) to overhaul Colorado’s election system. Instead, they should be thankful that Democrats in the State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Committee gave it a quick death. DeGraaf tried a similar […]
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” –Henry David Thoreau
Colorado Public Radio’s veteran Capitol correspondent Bente Birkeland reports on seething acrimony from certain excitable members of the GOP House micro-minority, over bills this year that pertain to the decidedly not intertwined issues of protecting LGBTQ+ rights and penalties for crimes related to human trafficking and sexual assault on minors. The fact that we are […]
Pueblo Republican Stephen Varela is one of those politicians who seem to exist in a perpetual state of shadiness. The latest trouble for “Shady Steve” may finally be the one that sinks him. As Sam Tabachnick reports today for The Denver Post, Varela’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in CO-03 would seem to […]
At the end of January, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reported on angry allegations of favoritism from GOP Rep. Matt Soper of Delta against the new House Micro-Minority Leader Rose Pugliese after Soper was bounced from the House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee, ostensibly to make room for ex-Minority Leader Mike Lynch who […]
As reporter Hannah Metzger writes for Westword today, one of Colorado’s most infamous conservative activists, former state Rep. Doug “Mr. TABOR” Bruce, is officially jumping into the CD-5 primary for retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn’s seat after signaling his intention to do so early this month: Rumors have swirled for weeks that Bruce could join the […]
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