(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On the Center for Western Priorities' bog Friday, Erin Moriarty spotlighted a special advertising section that looks very much like the actual Denver Post. Moriarty wrote: Even the most seasoned Denver Post readers can be fooled by a new advertising ploy from oil and gas front group Coloradans for Responsible Energy […]
An update from Carrie Canterbury of the Canon City Daily Record: Tougher laws and harsher penalties to better protect American citizens, limiting control of the federal government and doing away with Common Core were a few of the hot topics discussed during Saturday's Republican gubernatorial candidate forum at Mountain View Core Knowledge School. Hopefuls Bob […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The latest reports on the Affordable Care Act indicate that more than seven million Americans have enrolled nationally. For Colorado, newly-released metrics from the state exchange, ConnectforHealthCo.com, show that 277,000 Coloradans have enrolled, more than 118,000 through private insurance plans and more than 158,000 through the state’s Medicaid expansion. According […]
The Dems currently hold the majority in the US Senate with an effective 55 (2 are actually independents who caucus with the Dems) – 45 voting majority. Because the Dems hold the Presidency, the Republicans need to pick up 6 seats in order to depose Harry Reid. Do the Republicans need to win the Udall-Gardner […]
Fascinating story from our friends at "The Fix" on the issue of "gay marriage," which is now supported by a majority of Americans: Here's what (most) amazing to us. Only among those who strongly favor same-sex marriage are a majority aware that a majority of the country supports that position. Equally fascinating is that just more than […]
Okay, so let's get this straight…The Republican Party is going to defeat Sen. Mark Udall with Rep. Cory Gardner? The GOP thinks their best chance in 2014 is running an anti-incumbent message through an incumbent member of Congress — which is now the most disliked group of individuals in the history of public polling? Huh?!? […]
(Good advice from a longtime Polster – promoted by Colorado Pols) Someone walks into a party, climbs up on a table, drops their pants, squats over the punchbowl, and drops a gigantic turd in the punch. At this point, while you have everyone's attention, no one is listening to a word you say. If your […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Brophy took a playful swipe at Denver Post reporters Lynn Bartels and Kurtis Lee yesterday, saying on a Denver radio station that if Scott Gessler and Tom Tancredo "can't take on Lynn Bartels and Kurtis Lee right now, how on Earth are [Gessler and Tancredo] gong to […]
The same Quinnipiac University Polling Institute that delivered good news for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper yesterday brings a somewhat different message today for the campaign of incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall: With large gender gaps, Colorado voters approve 45 – 41 percent of the job Sen. Mark Udall is doing, but are divided 42 – 42 percent […]
20,000 Coloradans are without a vital lifeline: http://bit.ly/1dQkO6i
UPDATE: In maximum fairness, we should note one important item from the Post's Ryan Parker in his story Tuesday: Officials and experts on both sides of the gun-control debate [Pols emphasis] said the big numbers were not surprising and that the data are proof the system, with the addition of new legislation, works. It's tough to […]
Last week Gallup announced that a record 42% of Americans now self-identify as "Independents" when asked about their political affiliation. That 42% is the highest mark for Independents in the 25 years that Gallup has been tracking these things. The growth in "Independents" apparently came at the detriment to Republicans; only 25% of Americans identify […]
The crushing failure of Amendment 66, the school finance measure, was significant for many reasons that extend well beyond the stinging 65-35% margin of defeat. The campaign itself was an abject failure the likes of which Colorado hasn't seen since Bob Beauprez was staring at a horse's ass. Consider: Proposition 103, which was meagerly funded […]
Last September, the Front Range urban region of Colorado was hit by the worst flooding in a generation. A freak storm parked over the mountains immediately west of Denver and Boulder, dropping over a year's worth of precipitation in a matter of days. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed, whole towns were cut off […]
A press release a short while ago from the Colorado House Majority Press Office: Dozens of criminals have been prevented from buying a gun under a 2013 law that closed the loophole that allowed private sales of firearms to proceed without a background check on the buyer, official statistics show. Stats released by the state […]
As the Colorado Springs Gazette's Tom Roeder reports: Congressman Doug Lamborn is pushing a plan that would cut federal programs including Social Security, Medicare and crop insurance subsides by $30 billion a year so defense spending can be increased. The Colorado Springs Republican said Tuesday that the cuts, including a $20 billion annual reduction in […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last month's recalls occurred in what was generally Colorado Springs and Pueblo. No part of Denver was included in the districts that voted. That of course did not stop the Daily Show from canvassing people on the 16th St. Mall in Denver to figure out why they did/did not vote in […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Well the evidence is in and for all the upheaval over the past four years in the Douglas County schools because of the 2009 election of so called conservatives to the board of education and the subsequent implementation of their policies to terminate the ever evil teachers union and to send […]
UPDATE: Politico with the beginnings of Republican post-defeat introspection: The question racing around Washington now is: Have Republicans learned their lesson? Will the GOP finally understand that when you touch the stove, it burns? Within Republican circles, however, there’s widespread disagreement about exactly what lesson the party might stand to learn. If there’s general consensus […]
SUNDAY UPDATE: A few great emailed examples after the jump. Send yours to webmaster@coloradopols.com, or post them in comments below. —– Visiting the website of newly declared GOP U.S. Senate candidate Amy Stephens, we were immediately struck by the initial "splash page's" image: Looking closely at the site's cover portrait of Rep. Stephens, obvious signs of […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In college, I led a petition drive to put an question on the student-council election ballot asking students if they wanted the university to stock suicide pills for optional use by students in the event of nuclear war. The media had to take this seriously, because kids were actually voting on […]
CBS4 follows up the story of the lobbyist for the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Joe Neville, and his confrontation this year with GOP Rep. Cheri Gerou during the debate over gun safety legislation in the Colorado General Assembly. It's important to keep in mind that Rep. Gerou never had any intentions of supporting those bills, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Toward the end of the Creative Revolution Theater Company's inspired production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, Barry Champlain, who's the talk-show-host character in the play, tells his radio audience, "You're like little children under the blanket, afraid of the bogeyman, but you can't live without him." It's a great line, among […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Correction: An earlier version of this blog post stated that Debbie “Feeley” is on the list of people who are most detrimental to the Republican Party of Colorado. It is actually Debbie Healy, according to Sarah Arnold, who also told me she was not present at the GOP executive meeting last […]
KVOR talk-show host Jeff Crank said on-air Saturday that it’s impossible for GOP recall candidate Bernie Herpin to favor personhood, as claimed in a TV advertisement by Herpin’s opponents. Crank raises his voice on his Jeff Crank Show as he explains why, citing evidence provided by the folks who made the anti-Herpin TV ad. Crank: […]
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