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Hoping for Turnaround, O’Dea Gets More of a “Turn Away”
UPDATE: Filings from Senate Leadership Fund confirm the bad news for Joe O’Dea: —– Ballots will begin arriving in the mailboxes of Colorado voters in about six weeks. Little-known Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea is in desperate need of a cash infusion from national Republicans if he is going to get his name and face […]
The GMS Podcast: Dark Brandon’s MAGA Smackdown
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii discuss President Biden’s momentous speech last week calling out “MAGA Republicans” and what it means for the 2022 election in Colorado. We also update on the apparently very expensive recall effort against new Democratic State Sen. Kevin Priola; big new problems […]
Biden Delivers Powerful Speech as MAGA Republicans Freak Out
UPDATE: Greg Sargent of The Washington Post sums up the conundrum for “MAGA Republicans: Republicans are in a rage over President Biden’s speech in Philadelphia, in which he flatly declared that the American democratic experiment is in serious danger due to Donald Trump and the Republicans who remain allied with his political project. So here’s […]
Biden Prepares to Bring the Ruckus Tonight
UPDATE: In an apparent attempt to proactively make Biden’s point for him, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered this bonkers line in a pre-Biden speech: McCarthy: Joe Biden and the DOJ launched a raid on the home of Donald Trump. That is an assault on democracy. pic.twitter.com/kEE8ko5h4c — Acyn (@Acyn) September 1, 2022 Dude…this is exactly […]
Big Government Is Not Taking Over Your Thermostat
Denver7’s Jaclyn Allen reports on a not-really new program from Xcel Energy designed to help cope with extremely high electrical consumption during hot summer days, which Tuesday was apparently engaged for the first time to the surprise of a number of homeowners who (sorry to say this) shouldn’t have been surprised: Xcel confirmed to Contact […]
Former El Paso County GOP Officer Calls for State Sen. Hisey’s Resignation
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) A former El Paso County Republican Party officer is calling on his party’s leaders to demand the resignation of one of their own: state Sen. Dennis Hisey (R-Fountain). In an open letter to the party chair for Senate District 11 (SD11) and Colorado Republican Party Chair Kristi Burton Brown, John Pitchford, […]
No, Everyone Does NOT “Shake The Etch-a-Sketch”
9NEWS followed up last night on a story we wrote about Tuesday, originally reported by Politico, about Republican candidates quietly updating their websites to reduce or even completely remove references to abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s highly unpopular decision to repeal Roe v. Wade. The Colorado example cited by Politico was […]
The Death of Nuance on Abortion Rights
As The Associated Press reports in a fascinating new story, one of the major changes to the political landscape in 2022 is the death of nuance in terms of how politicians talk about their positions on abortion rights: Analysts say similarly nuanced positions were once considered the political sweet spot in the complex world of […]
Republican candidates are now removing Trump from their websites….
Since the Dobbs Supreme Court ruling, Republicans have been scrubbing/erasing their previous views on abortion. That’s a pretty big deal. However, on MSNBC tonight Senator Claire McCaskill mentioned a major shift. Republican candidates are scrubbing/erasing Donald Trump from their websites. That’s a BFD… Maggie Astor NY Times For months, the campaign website for Adam Laxalt, […]
Bad Polling, No Money for Colorado Republicans
There are 68 days left until Election Day on Nov. 8. That’s not a lot of time left to make your case to voters, but that number is deceiving for elections in Colorado; because Colorado is a mail-ballot state, there are now only 6 weeks remaining until voters start to find ballots in their mailboxes. […]
10 Reasons Why Priola Would Abandon the GOP for Promoting Election Conspiracies
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican pundit Dick Wadhams says that newly minted Democratic lawmaker Kevin Priola’s decision to leave the Colorado Republican Party because of the party’s support of election deniers has “no credibility” because, in Colorado’s last election, the election deniers “got routed.” State Rep. Colin Larson went further last week, calling Priola’s decision […]
Michael Fields’ Partisan Vengeance Won’t Come Cheap
As the Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain reports, the estimates are back on the cost to taxpayers and petition signature requirements for the threatened recall election against Sen. Kevin Priola, who switched from the Republican to the Democratic parties earlier this month citing Donald Trump’s war on democracy and Republican indifference on climate change. Secretary of […]
More National Press for O’Dea That Isn’t Particularly Helpful
Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea hasn’t been gaining much traction against incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in any important campaign measurement, but he has had some success in one metric: Picking up national press coverage. Unfortunately for O’Dea, that “success” comes with an asterisk. O’Dea has recently been featured in national outlets such as The […]
Top GOP Senate Candidate Switched Parties 17 TIMES In 11 Years
With Republican hopes for recapturing the Colorado Senate in 2022 dwindling after the defection of Sen. Kevin Priola to the Democratic majority, the competitive races up this year are even more crucial if local Republicans hope to in any way benefit from what looks to be a petering “red wave” midterm. One of those is […]
Republicans Growing Nervous About Hisey Residency Issues
Late last week there were a handful of stories in Colorado news outlets about Republican State Sen. Dennis Hisey’s strange residency issues as he seeks election in a new district (SD-11) against Democrat Tony Exum. It seems that at least one notable Republican in El Paso County is very concerned about how this might play […]
All Together Now: GOP’s Toxic “Unity Tour” Goes On
Earlier this month, Republican candidates for office at all levels gathered at Mile High Station, an events venue in downtown Denver owned by multimillionaire U.S. Senate candidate Joe “Horse Sushi” O’Dea, to declare their unity heading into the height of election season. Standing together on one stage were candidates like O’Dea and Secretary of State […]
The GMS Podcast: Christian Nationalism and Other Fun Things
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with University of Colorado professor Dr. Anand Sohkey about his upcoming book on Christian Nationalism and why it’s suddenly so pervasive in our politics. But that’s not all! In this unusually-long episode, we also talk about State Sen. Kevin […]
Erik Aadland Tries (and Fails) to Scrub Away the MAGA
Republican Erik Aadland is fairly new to politics, but he apparently understands — albeit a bit late — that being a full-throated election denier and “Big Lie” MAGAbot isn’t going to be very helpful in trying to win election to Congress in CO-07 against Democratic State Sen. Brittany Pettersen. Aadland spoke about his beliefs that […]
State Sen. Dennis Hisey is in All Sorts of Residency Trouble
Republican State Sen. Dennis Hisey is all over the place…literally. And it looks like he may have broken the law as a result. As Marianne Goodland reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette, Hisey appears to have been playing musical residences in an effort to maintain his eligibility to remain a candidate for Senate District 11 […]
Boebert Bringing Matt Gaetz To Skeeze Up Pueblo
As NBC News’ Marc Caputo reports, embattled Florida Republican congressbroham Matt Gaetz, despite an ongoing federal investigation into alleged human trafficking and other assorted sex crimes, emerged victorious Tuesday night in his primary that featured heavy spending on lurid ads attacking Gaetz: Rep. Matt Gaetz defeated his Republican primary opponent Tuesday in one of Florida’s […]
Republicans Will Attempt to Recall Kevin Priola
There is no group of people who know how to make a bad situation worse like Colorado Republicans. On Wednesday, Colorado Republicans announced that they had formally begun the process to recall State Sen. Kevin Priola from office for reasons that have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with partisanship. On Monday, […]
Ganahl Wants To Be Sure You Got Her Awful Climate Answer Right
As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, a number of local elected officials and candidates were in Steamboat Springs yesterday to confer, converse, and otherwise hob-knob with the eminent and sagely buffaloes of the Colorado Water Congress. With the West in the grip of historic drought and the effects of human-caused climate change increasingly […]
O’Dea Rides To Florida For The Worst Possible Optics
As we discussed last week, amid the growing sense of desperation among Republicans as their chances of capturing a majority in the U.S. Senate dwindle under the weight of terrible Republican candidates throwing away winnable races, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell–who candidly admitted last week that “candidate quality” is impacting Republican odds–and the National Republican […]
Here’s the New “This is What Momentum Looks Like”
“Colorado is in Play” is the new “This is What Momentum Looks Like.” Back in October 2017, supporters of then-gubernatorial candidate George Brauchler were inexplicably crowing that “this is what momentum looks like” after their candidate raised less than $100k in the third quarter fundraising period and picked up a handful of endorsements from law […]