(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%
A report from Steamboat Radio has the latest in what could be a never-ending saga of denial and bad faith, as the two Colorado Republican candidates most closely identified with the conspiracy theory positing that Donald Trump should still be President of the United States refuse as promised to accept the results of GOP primary […]
UPDATE: As The Intelligencer at New York Magazine reports, Trump has already decided to run for President in 2024. The only question left is when he announces his intentions: “Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision,” he said. He was thinking aloud now. “I just think that there are certain […]
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” –Benjamin Franklin
(There’s plenty of room under the bus! — promoted by Colorado Pols) As the U.S. House Select Committee showed the nation that the Trump administration worked closely with extremist groups like the Oathkeepers to overturn the 2020 election, Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters yesterday told a conference of extremist sheriffs that Conan Hayes, the […]
Earlier this year we posted a bracket-style look at the worst major political campaigns in the last two decades in Colorado. The Winningest Loser in our bracket was Republican Bob Beauprez’s disastrous campaign for Governor in 2006, but we noted at the time that 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl was making a run […]
Readers of Colorado Pols have traditionally been pretty good at predicting the outcome of key races in a given election (although readers didn’t so so well in the Primary Election last month). It’s time to start our General Election polling to get a sense of how perceptions of various races might shift over time as […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, a new arrest followed by felony charges filed against a third Mesa County Clerk’s office employee in the case of Clerk Tina Peters’ alleged breach of election system security, and other assorted felony and misdemeanor misconduct in a misguided attempt to prove the 2020 presidential election was […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Senate candidate Joe O’Dea made his fortune building large public works projects including transit stations, highways, and bridges. In the closing days of the last month’s primary, O’Dea promised GOP voters that if elected to the U.S. Senate, he’ll complete Trump’s largest and most controversial construction project — the border […]
Democrat Phil Weiser is seeking another term as Attorney General in 2022, and he’s making it very clear where his policy priorities stand on several key issues. Weiser was a guest on “Colorado Matters” with Colorado Public Radio interviewer extraordinaire Ryan Warner today. The incumbent AG left no doubt that he plans to protect the […]
In celebration of the 95th birthday of popular convenience store 7-11, you can get yourself a free Slurpee today. Let’s 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 an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter […]
awesome + uniting Drone show creates zero problems for fire crews on July 4th Colorado Democrat pitches state as prime candidate for party’s early primary slate Digital license plates coming to Colorado awesome + controversy Denver’s Convergence Station could be the second Meow Wolf location to unionize Gas prices drive e-bike, scooter use to new […]
We wrote and updated at length on Thursday as yet another stupendous uncontained public relations failure played out in Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s campaign. After announcing to multiple radio outlets that she would make her selection for lieutenant governor public Thursday, saying “he’s a great Hispanic leader from rural Colorado,” word of Las […]
It’s been over a week since the November election field was set in the June 28th primary elections, but you wouldn’t know it from the virtual absence of press coverage in what’s expected to be Colorado’s–and perhaps the nation’s–hottest congressional race for the state’s new CD-8. After a feisty three-way contest between Weld County Commissioner […]
UPDATE (4:11 pm): We’ve been trying to think through how this all went so awry for the Ganahl campaign. The only thing that really made sense is that perhaps Felix Lopez rejected Ganahl’s offer to be her running mate. If Lopez backed out at the last minute, it would be plausible that Ganahl’s campaign was in […]
Former state Sen. Larry Crowder of Alamosa, on a sugar high following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade with the nod from Justice Clarence Thomas for society to “reconsider” all kinds of personal freedom precedents, is calling for the Ten Commandments to be posted publicly at area universities: It probably won’t be […]
In 2016, 2018, and again in 2020, Colorado sent Team Trump packing. In 2022, it’s time to do it again. And we need your help. American politics have been changed forever by Donald Trump’s destructive presidency, and Trump’s continuing assault on American democracy even after the violence of January 6th is one of the greatest […]
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Joe O’Dea had a lot to say recently in an interview with the right-wing rag The Washington Examiner, including a strong allegation that Democrats are lying about something he says himself. Here’s the key part from a story published on July 3 in the Examiner: He said the Democrats are “trying to […]
Kristi Burton Brown (KBB) is the Chairperson of the Colorado Republican Party, which is a lot of responsibility for someone whose previous job – literally the last position she held prior to being elected GOP Chair – was serving as President of FEC United. If you’re unfamiliar with FEC United, they are an armed militia […]
(Ganahl’s true colors are red, white, and coup — Promoted by Colorado Pols) The day after her primary win, Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl gave an interview to Steve Bannon in which she credited her closer-than-expected victory to her “great team, including Boris and Brad,” referring to Boris Epshteyn and Brad Parscale. All three […]
Last Tuesday’s victory in the Republican primary by candidates for U.S. Senate and governor openly backed by the party elite over their MAGA grassroots opponents has given rise to a media narrative that money spent by Democratic-aligned interests to promote underfunded grassroots Republican candidates was a strategic failure. But the truth is that irrespective of […]
We’ll get you caught up after a long holiday weekend. Let’s 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 an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and […]
This week in episode 113 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii run through the big Primary Election results with the help of University of Denver professor Seth Masket, director of the Center for American Politics. But first, Jason and Ian admit freely that WE WERE WRONG about our predictions […]
(Republished by Colorado Pols under a Creative Commons license) by Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline June 30, 2022 A common response to the Colorado primary election results this week was to remark that Republican voters rejected the election conspiracists, returned the party to the mainstream, signaled support for the establishment over the fringe. It’s true that […]
awesome + uniting ‘This is for you, Denver!’: Colorado Avalanche celebrate first Stanley Cup victory since 2001 Denver will release 2,000 more e-bike vouchers for July and even more throughout summer to expand popular program Colorado to release draft of new water plan, calling it a blueprint for the state’s future awesome + controversy The […]
Colorado Pols and “The Big Line” apparently came up this week during a discussion about the Primary Election on “The Conservative Daily” podcast featuring right-wing activists Joe Oltmann, Ashe Epp, and Jeff O’Donnell. We were also cited by the right-wing website “Gateway Pundit” in a similar manner. Before we get to “The Conservative Daily,” here’s […]
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