(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%
(Fringe becomes her — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Despite the pundits’ pleas, Heidi Ganahl just can’t quit the Big Lie. With most political reporters highlighting Colorado Republicans’ relief at their base only electing one overt proponent of Trump’s Big Lie in Lauren Boebert, local conservative strategists and political experts are more focused on the gubernatorial […]
The Republican primary for Colorado’s Third Congressional District was a major disappointment for anyone hoping that Colorado Republicans can police their own to the same extent that North Carolina Republicans were able to rid themselves of top-tier congressional disgrace Madison Cawthorn. Freshman perpetual outrage machine Rep. Lauren Boebert shellacked her Republican opponent Sen. Don Coram […]
When the ‘Omicron’ variant of COVID-19 was dominating headlines earlier this year, it was often described by experts and media outlets as being a more contagious but generally less severe form of the virus compared with the earlier ‘Delta’ variant. Some even said that ‘Omicron’ was more “moderate” than ‘Delta.’ Still…nobody wanted to get infected with […]
Fresh off her victory in Tuesday’s Primary Election, Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl made an appearance today on “The Ross Kaminsky Show,” which was guest-hosted by conservative blowhard Jon Caldara. We would think that Ganahl would want to pivot her narrative toward a broader General Election audience now that the Primary is over, but […]
We haven’t heard a whole lot from Danielle Neuschwanger since the former Republican candidate for Governor decided to take her talents to the American Constitution Party for the General Election. Neuschwanger will be running for Governor this fall against Republican Hiedi Heidi Ganahl and incumbent Democrat Jared Polis. Or, perhaps, Neuschwanger is running against BOTH […]
The Denver Post’s Alex Burness reports on the relatively narrow victory last night by Heidi Ganahl over ex-Parker Mayor Greg Lopez in the Republican gubernatorial primary, with Ganahl squeaking out ahead of the baggage-laden Lopez by a 53-47% margin: Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and the only Republican here still standing in statewide elected […]
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection held a surprise hearing today that included several new bombshells further implicating former President Trump and top advisers. The main witness today was Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who was privy to many of the innermost discussions […]
As the Denver Post’s Conrad Swanson reports, nobody peels the issue down to the metaphorical tighty whities quite like Colorado’s freshman GOP outrage-seeking missile Rep. Lauren Boebert, speaking before a church audience Sunday fresh off the high of Roe v. Wade’s repeal by the U.S Supreme Court: Boebert’s comments, made Sunday to a crowd at […]
Over the years at Colorado Pols we’ve frequently run totally non-scientific polls (like this one) asking readers to tell us who they think will be the victor in a particular race. We do this to get a sense of how perceptions might be shifting in a particular race, but we’ve also found that Polsters have […]
Last chance to weigh in on the red side of what will be one of the country’s hottest congressional races. Who do you think will be the Republican nominee for Congress in CO-08? The consensus view is the race has become a two-way showdown between Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer and Weld County Commissioner Lori Saine, but […]
The New York Times has a feature-length profile up today on Colorado Republican Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters, who is by all metrics the frontrunner in tomorrow’s primary for the GOP nomination despite facing multiple criminal charges related to a breach of election system security on her watch in Mesa County in a failed […]
UPDATE: Somehow Hiedi Heidi Ganahl found a way to make this all even weirder: —– Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl is not exactly projecting confidence ahead of Tuesday’s Primary Election showdown with Greg Lopez: New: Heidi Ganahl won’t host a public watch party tomorrow. She’ll watch with “family and supporters at a home in […]
Last Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade precedent and end the constitutional guarantee of abortion rights in America is, for many religious conservatives including the chair of the Colorado Republican Party Kristi Burton Brown, the fulfillment of a principal lifelong political objective. As Denver7’s Meghan Lopez reported […]
Political pundits often attempt to connect voter turnout numbers in a Primary Election as some sort of harbinger of things to come in a General Election. Most of the time there is little correlation between the two elections, and that is particularly true in 2022. The Colorado Secretary of State’s office released ballot return numbers […]
awesome + uniting Colorado taxpayers could see $750 refund checks this summer, new forecast estimates Still haven’t cast your ballot in Colorado’s primaries? We’re here to help. In the face of intimidation, Denver PrideFest presses forward awesome + controversy Colorado moves one step closer to a government-designed health insurance plan High court upholds family leave […]
(Eep — Promoted by Colorado Pols) In late May, Republican Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters’ campaign made a $50,000 payment to PIN Business Network, a marketing company with ties to election conspiracist and podcast host Joe Oltmann. The payment was marked in the state’s campaign finance database as being for “internet advertising,” and amounts […]
UPDATE #2: More local reactions coming in via the Aurora Sentinel: GOV. JARED POLIS: “Coloradans do not want politicians making their healthcare decisions. Because of my administration and Democratic leadership in the legislature, Coloradans don’t have to worry because our rights are still protected today despite the unfortunate reality that the U.S. Supreme just rolled […]
We’ve spent some time during this primary election season discussing the work product of a particular local political reporter, Shaun Boyd of CBS4, not due to the quality of her journalism but the revealing manner in which Boyd has maneuvered to openly assist the institutionally favored Republican candidates running for the party’s nomination in the […]
We’re tracking the change over time. Who do you think will be the Republican nominee for Congress in CO-03? Can Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert hold off State Sen. Don Coram, or will unaffiliated voters and disaffected Republicans send “Q*bert” packing back to Rifle? Click below to cast your vote! *Remember, as always with our totally […]
The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger reports on the latest threat to freshman GOP wrecking ball of crazy Rep. Lauren Boebert’s infamous Shooter’s Grill in Rifle–and this time it’s not back taxes, COVID-19 restrictions, or even food poisoning threatening to close the doors, but rather a landlord looking for a better quality tenant: Shooters Grill, the […]
(Getting wacky tobacky in the CD-8 GOP primary — Promoted by Colorado Pols) We know many in Colorado, the first state to legalize recreational pot, love their ganja, so some might say it’s risky for one Republican to pay for an ad accusing “someone” at her GOP opponent’s “headquarters” of smoking too much marijuana — […]
CNN reports while the nation comes to grips with a major decision by the new 6-3 conservative U.S. Supreme Court that could drastically alter the debate over gun control policy in the United States for generations: The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that […]
This week in episode 112 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii make their final prognostications in advance of the June 28th Primary Election with the help of Armin Thomas of Split-Ticket.org. We’ll also discuss calls from The Denver Post to shutter the Benson Center for Western Civilization Thought and […]
It’s been a few weeks since we last asked this question. What say you today, Polsters? Next week we’ll go through all of these recent polls and take a look at how the momentum perception has (or has not) changed. In the meantime, who ya got on Tuesday? Will it be State Rep. Ron Hanks […]
UPDATE: On Monday, O’Dea said that the Affordable Care Act should NOT be repealed. On Tuesday, he said…something different: If you support what former President Trump wanted to do to the ACA, as O’Dea suggests, then you support gutting it altogether — because that was Trump’s oft-stated goal. — We are now just one […]
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