(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%
Last week, the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the plot by ex-President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election zeroed in on John Eastman. Eastman, while serving as the University of Colorado’s “Visiting Conservative Scholar” sponsored by the controversial Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, worked directly […]
Last week, struggling Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl relented from her months-long self-imposed media blackout in order to sit down with a number of news outlets, presumably in order to counter the growing sense that Ganahl is hopelessly unprepared for the nomination she’s seeking. As we reported Friday, it has not gone well. It […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) by Sean Price, Colorado Times Recorder Earlier this month Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Joe O’Dea said that senators should look at raising the minimum age for buying an AR-15-style gun, a semiautomatic rifle often used in mass shootings, from 18 to 21. O’Dea, speaking on KOA’s Ross Kaminsky Show, was asked if he would […]
The June 28th Primary Election is just 11 days away. Let’s do some more informal polling, shall we? Readers of Colorado Pols are traditionally pretty accurate in predicting the outcomes of elections in our state. We want to know what you’re thinking today about the Republican race for Governor. Do you think topline candidate Greg Lopez […]
UPDATE: Mike Littwin of The Colorado Sun has more: The heat must have gotten just hot enough — damn that global warming — that Ganahl finally told the Colorado Sun and News4 she wished Eastman “had not involved CU in the whole conversation on what happened with Jan. 6 and the president. But I also […]
UPDATE: It was brought to our attention that last night’s CBS4 report, which insisted on only giving “Wendy’s” first name to highlight the supposed danger, in addition to publicizing the address to “Wendy’s” home that was the whole basis of the alleged privacy concerns, actually disclosed Wendy Meritt’s name in full along with the home’s […]
The House committee investigating the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021 is holding its third public day of hearings today in what has become must-see television for many Americans. Today’s focus will be on threats made to Vice President Mike Pence, but we also suspect that former University of Colorado visiting professor (and Donald Trump lawyer) […]
It’s getting smaller in the rearview mirror every day, but 20 years ago the politics of Colorado were very different. In 2002, Colorado Republicans reached the peak of their power, completing the trifecta of holding the governor’s office and majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. And then it all started to slip away. […]
This week in episode 111 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii catch up on a whole bunch of political news. We’ll go through the latest updates on the big political races in Colorado as the Primary Election draws near and explain why Republicans are flipping out over television […]
As POLITICO reports: People who joined Georgia GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk for a Capitol tour on Jan. 5, 2021 photographed and recorded places “not typically of interest to tourists, including hallways, staircases, and security checkpoints,” according to materials released Wednesday by the Jan. 6 select committee. “The behavior of these individuals during the January 5, […]
(Show Joe the Ref C money! — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Joe O’Dea, the construction company CEO who hopes to challenge U.S. Senator Michael Bennet this November, has been all over the airwaves in recent weeks advocating for limiting government and cutting spending, but he’s previously supported taxpayer-funded initiatives which have accounted for billions of […]
A television debate between the two Republican U.S. Senate candidates Joe O’Dea and Ron Hanks scheduled for yesterday evening at the CBS4 Denver studio didn’t take place, and as Hanks explains in a video from the state capitol afterward, it’s not due to Hanks’s unwillingness to go toe to toe with his opponent–rather the prospect […]
You know the drill by now: Who do you think will be the Republican nominee for Congress in CO-03? Will incumbent Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert earn a head start on a second term, or can State Sen. Don Coram finally put an end to Q*Bert’s madness? Click below to cast your vote! *Remember, as […]
Our readers are traditionally pretty good about projecting the outcome in key races, so tell us what will happen in Colorado Springs in two weeks. Who will advance from the June 28th Republican Primary in CO-05 to become the de-facto Congressman in November? (since this is a heavy Republican district, the Primary winner will almost […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Congressional candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Weld County Republican, said today that she had “nothing” to do with political advertisements that label two of her GOP primary opponents, Jan Kulmann and Lori Sain, “Liberals” and imply that they are “Democrats.” “I would just say this, first of all, that I did not […]
Ballots for the June 28th Primary Election are already being returned after being mailed out to voters early last week. Most of the action this month is on the Republican side, where there are an exceptional number of GOP battles that need deciding. In fact, we can’t recall a recent time when Colorado saw this […]
One of the principal arguments from Republican talking heads furiously sounding the alarm over ads paid for by liberal groups targeting Republican primaries is that the candidates being promoted by these efforts are “unelectable” compared to the brass-backed candidates. In what seems like a frank acknowledgment that the issues nearest and dearest to Republican voters […]
In a deep dive into the gubernatorial primary this weekend from the Denver Post’s Alex Burness, the struggle between the establishment-favored candidate Heidi Ganahl and what should have been an easy challenger in former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez gets a full and mutually unflattering airing–though despite revelations that Greg Lopez’s campaign platform was broadly cribbed […]
awesome + uniting Denver will host 1st Cities Summit of the Americas in 2023 Ride the Rockies starts this weekend, leads bicyclists on 436-mile route through Colorado’s mountains Colorado Avalanche will face Tampa Bay Lightning in Stanley Cup Final awesome + controversy Gun control goes hyperlocal in Colorado, as restrictions pass in four Boulder County […]
(It’s kind of silly, after all — Promoted by Colorado Pols) On his radio show today, conservative talk radio host Jimmy Lakey called on congressional candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Weld County Republican, to “rebuke” political advertisements that falsely label Kirkmeyer’s GOP opponents, Jan Kulmann and Lori Saine, “liberals.” The ads, which are both digital and […]
Salon reporting on even more damning intra-Republican audio ahead of the publication of the new book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future–a recording from January 11th, 2021, in which Colorado freshman GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert was slammed by a fellow Republican representative for Tweeting about the location of House […]
State Rep. Ron Hanks is the center of gravity in the race for the Republican Senate nomination. We’ve said it in this space for months. In fact, we weren’t particularly surprised when Hanks ended up making the June Primary ballot at the State Republican Party Assembly in April (though we were surprised that he was […]
Sage Naumann is the former spokesman for the Senate Republicans, and that means most of you won’t care what he thinks. But today he made some points about the left (and even some who call themselves conservative on this blog) meddling in the Republican primary election that I would like answers for: This week, leading […]
Marianne Goodland of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports on a surprising fumble by a well-known local Republican lobbyist and astroturf advocacy group honcho, Michael Fields, who made an illegal campaign donation to the Republican candidate for Attorney General John Kellner: Fields, a registered lobbyist for Advance Colorado Action, gave three contributions during the […]
Technically this is a hockey mask. Congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche for making the Stanley Cup Finals! 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 […]
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