(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%
(You’ve come a long way, Joe O’Dea — Promoted by Colorado Pols) by Sean Price, Colorado Times Recorder According to FEC contribution filings, Denver businessman and Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe O’Dea donated to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) during his 2010 campaign. O’Dea is trying to unseat Bennet this November and has been critical of the […]
As the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reports, a lawsuit filed on behalf of freshman GOP going calamity Rep. Lauren Boebert via the state’s usual-suspect gaggle of Republican lawyers seeking to have Boebert’s Republican primary opponent Sen. Don Coram tossed off the ballot has been thrown out of court: A lawsuit filed by a group that […]
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. As the 2022 session of the Colorado legislature winds down in its final weeks, there’s a lot of important legislation still making its way through the process. We need to stay vigilant all the way until adjournment on May 11 to make sure the bills we’ve been fighting […]
Elliott Wenzler of Colorado Community Media reports that the always entertaining (unless you happen to live there, in which case it’s just frightening) all-GOP Douglas County Board of Commissioners is at each others’ throats once again–and this time, the intrigue concerns that most emotionally volatile of resources in the American West, water for fighting: Douglas […]
A substantial portion of the 2022 session of the Colorado legislature has been dominated by debate over policy to address the particularly dangerous synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, which has been responsible for an escalating overdose and death rate for nearly a decade as this cheap and powerful drug is smuggled in large quantities into the […]
When last we caught up with efforts to “recall” Governor Jared Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold, the crack grassroots organization pushed by right-wing activist Lori Cutunilli was trying to entice people into the depths of an underground parking garage with vague promises of booting one or more statewide elected Democratic officials out of […]
Last week, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made national headlines for jokingly suggesting that he would offer “asylum” to Mickey and Minnie Mouse in the wake of news that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was going after the Disney company for being critical of his “don’t say gay” bill. DeSantis asked his Republican friends in the Florida […]
One of the classic errors made by (almost always Republican) candidates trying just a little too hard to prove their local mettle running in Colorado is the use of images of mountains in campaign ads and literature that, albeit picturesque, are not actually located in the state of Colorado. From the state party’s use of […]
The June 28th Primary Election is just about two months away, and most of the action will take place among Republicans. With primaries for U.S. Senate, Governor, Secretary of State, and Congress (C0-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-07, and CO-08), there are at least 20 different Republican candidates trying to get their message out to the GOP […]
The last 24 hours have seen a story about GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s initial reaction to the violent insurrection on January 6th, 2021, in which McCarthy at least for a while placed the blame squarely on ex-President Donald Trump and allegedly promised colleagues he would urge Trump to resign, explode into a major […]
This week in episode 106 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii welcome back Christy Powell, last week’s wildly-popular guest host, for a new segment breaking down the latest questionable spending in fundraising reports for federal campaigns in Colorado. Later, we listen in as Republican gubernatorial candidates Greg Lopez […]
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Two years ago today, Republican Rep. Scott Tipton was assumed to be cruising to another term in a solidly-Republican district in CO-03. In April 2020, there was little reason to think that unknown upstart Lauren Boebert could pose a serious challenge to the six-term Congressman from Cortez. Two months later, Boebert would go on to […]
Earlier this month, local media outlets took note of a rather odd vote in the House of Representatives: Colorado delegation on resolution supporting NATO: Boebert (R) N Buck (R) N Crow (D) Y DeGette (D) Y Lamborn (R) Y Neguse (D) Y Perlmutter (D) Y#copolitics https://t.co/yyMAn3BDXJ — Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) April 5, 2022 To […]
As AP reports via the Colorado Sun, last night the cantankerous, sometimes openly belligerent, and always just kind of silly opponents of the mandate to wear a protective face mask while riding public transportation to protect against infection from COVID-19 appear to have won the argument at long last with the help of a Donald […]
As Westword’s Michael Roberts reports, the University of Colorado’s Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, a hotbed of controversy on the state’s flagship public campus for over a decade culminating in the disastrous appointment of 2020 coup mastermind John Eastman in 2020 as the center’s “Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and […]
(The base has spoken, the bastards — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Following Saturday’s chaotic and combative GOP state assembly in Colorado Springs, Congressman Ken Buck (R-Colorado) said the GOP delegates who choose far-right extremist candidates “are not making rational decisions,” but rather are angry about “American weakness.” On Tuesday in an interview with KOA radio’s […]
If we’re going to pardon turkeys at Thanksgiving, shouldn’t we pardon eggs at Easter? 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 […]
Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott is the 2022 Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which means it is his job to ensure that Republicans take majority control of the U.S. Senate in 2022. Scott was in Colorado this week to meet with Republicans and pretend to be excited about GOP Senate candidates Ron […]
Although indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’s campaign for Colorado Secretary of State is getting most of the attention, particularly since Peters won top line on the June 28th primary ballot with 60% of the state assembly delegate vote, fellow Republican and former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson’s own campaign has stayed relatively quiet through […]
After last weekend’s debacle that was the State Republican Party Assembly, only two GOP candidates remain in the race for U.S. Senate: State Rep. Ron Hanks and businessman Joe O’Dea. Differentiating between the two finalists may be a harder task for Republicans than we might have thought. Hanks is the center of gravity in this […]
This week in episode 105 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii guest host Christy Powell spend an entire episode breaking down the fantastic disaster that was last weekend’s Republican Party state assembly. Which other Republicans are dancing alongside Secretary of State nominee Tina Peters? Listen to previous episodes […]
As Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reports, yesterday afternoon the Secretary of State’s office announced that state Sen. Don Coram’s petitions were approved and he will appear on the June 28th Republican primary ballot in a two-way showdown against freshman GOP trainwreck that keeps on wrecking Rep. Lauren Boebert: State Sen. Don Coram will face incumbent […]
As Colorado Newsline reports, Republican gubernatorial candidate Danielle Neuschwanger, who very narrowly missed a spot on the June 28th Republican primary ballot in voting at the Republican Party state assembly last weekend, is vowing to fight results she insists are fraudulent by any means necessary metaphorical and…well, physical: Neuschwanger, a 34-year-old Colorado native and small […]
Today in the Colorado House, intense negotiations are underway over legislation that would tighten penalties for the distribution of the dangerous synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, which has been responsible for a sharp increase in overdose deaths due to the drug’s potency and frequent substitution for other street drugs. CBS4 Denver’s Shaun Boyd reports: Speaker of […]
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