(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 budding controversy in a Fort Collins City Council race, as reported by the Fort Collins “It’s How They Used To Spell It Damn You All” Coloradoan, first raises alarms about the deeply troubling avowed white nationalist former politics of District 6 candidate Alexander Adams, a registered Republican, and then asks us all to consider […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Kristi Burton Brown, the former leader of the Colorado Republican Party, makes no secret of her support for Aurora City Council candidate Stephanie Hancock. “I certainly hope to see you get elected to City Council,” Burton Brown told Hancock in June on a right-wing radio show. “And for anyone listening who […]
House Republicans tonight will hold another internal “debate” in an effort to select SOMEBODY who can get enough votes to eventually become Speaker of the House and return Congress to some sort of functionality. There are now nine different candidates running to become House Speaker. We’d be lying if we said we recognized more than […]
The House of Representatives will end its third week without a Speaker of the House after Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan failed (again) to receive enough support from Republicans to put his angry mug in the Speaker’s office. Republicans have reportedly decided not to give Jordan a fourth opportunity to fail, so at least we’re […]
A little less than an hour ago, Axios’ Juliegrace Brufke broke news of a letter, purportedly from the “Gaetz Eight” Republicans who voted to oust ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling for the GOP House Majority to rally around embattled GOP speaker nominee Jim Jordan just minutes after Jordan lost his third round of voting this morning: […]
UPDATE 12:00PM: “Gym” Jordan withdraws from the race for speaker after losing a secret ballot among the Republican conference to try a fourth time. What comes next is anybody’s guess. —– UPDATE 9:20AM: And it’s already over: —– Here we go again, as the Washington Post reports: The House is scheduled Friday to vote for […]
We’re taking a break from wondering if Congress will ever again function normally in order to point you to some absolutely breathtaking corruption currently taking place in one Colorado Springs school district. We haven’t seen any other reporting on this story, but we absolutely should; this is one of those tales that needs to be […]
UPDATE: It doesn’t appear that there is much enthusiasm for “tapping in” temporary Speaker “Mini” Patrick McHenry to at least allow the House to function a bit more than is possible currently. And in case you were wondering…things could still somehow actually get WORSE: Cammack also said there’s concern inside GOP conference that granting McHenry […]
Big news out of Georgia this morning in, where one of the key early members of ex-President Donald Trump’s “elite strike force” legal team, attorney Sidney Powell, has agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges of election interference in a deal that avoids conviction for felony racketeering in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Applying a deep-state conspiracy theory to the Hamas terrorist attacks, a Colorado Republican lawmaker says it’s more likely than not that the U.S. and Israeli governments, both with “corrupt bureaucratic leadership,” knew in advance that the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was “about to happen.” “I don’t know for sure that our […]
Former GOP Colorado Senate President Kevin Grantham wanted to show his support for Israel a few days ago, and like so many do to show solidarity with a favored cause Grantham appears to have used a social media photo filter to superimpose an Israeli flag on his Facebook profile picture. Lots of people are doing […]
Jeff Hurd is not Lauren Boebert. That’s been the crux of the Grand Junction Republican’s campaign for Congress in CO-03 thus far, and it’s not an ineffective message given Boebert’s uncanny ability to do and say the wrong thing at virtually every opportunity. The August #Beetlebert scandal, in which Boebert was kicked out of a […]
UPDATE #3: Rep. Jason Crow checks in with a plea for the chaos to end, on account of the world desperately needing American leadership in a time of crisis and all that sundry stuff: Checking in: just took my 17th vote for Speaker this Congress. The vote failed. Again. The House still has no Speaker. […]
After several days of controversy over newly-appointed Democratic Rep. Tim Hernandez’s initial refusal to condemn violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians at a pro-Palestinian rally a week ago last Saturday, Hernandez offered what’s generally been accepted as a thoughtful and sincere apology acknowledging the pain his omission of Israeli suffering had caused and promising […]
(Never forget — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican Mike Coffman wants to be elected mayor of Aurora again, but for most of his 34-year political career, Coffman was a warrior for issues that had little to do with city government and everything to do with spreading a right-wing agenda across Colorado and the country. Immigration […]
Because sometimes you really DON’T need anything else but the artist formerly known as Twitter… We have so many questions for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-ifle)… ♦ To whom did you submit legislation? There’s literally nobody in charge right now. ♦ How are the “UN Women” impacting water supply on the Western Slope of […]
UPDATE #2: Rep. Joe Neguse of Boulder channels the mood as “Gym” Jordan loses on his first ballot: No word on when that next vote will take place. In short, it’s January all over again. —– UPDATE: Rep. Ken Buck votes for Rep. Tom Emmer after missing the first roll call. Ken Buck planting the […]
House Republicans will attempt today to end two weeks of wasted time in Congress by electing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan as the next Speaker of the House. If they succeed in elevating Jordan as House Speaker and second in line to the Presidency, they will likely ensure their place in the minority in 2025. Two […]
Tomorrow, the U.S. House is set to reconvene with the pressing need for the Republican majority to install a new Speaker of the House to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy, after last week’s attempt to find an alternative to controversial far-right Rep. Jim Jordan fell apart and Jordan was eventually nominated by a still-split GOP […]
We have been waiting on federal fundraising reports from Q3 (July – September 2023) in hopes that they might provide some fresh insight into several 2024 congressional races in Colorado. Those numbers are now available, and they indeed tell an interesting story. Let’s break down the reports by Congressional District… CO-03 (Southern and Western […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s going to be pretty hard to be funny as the Hamas terrorist attacks on innocent Israelis quickly turns into a war that will mean far too many deaths of both Palestinian and Israeli civilians. We’ll talk about what this means for Colorado and national politics as […]
Last Friday, the controversy over newly-appointed Rep. Tim Hernandez’s initial refusal to condemn the unprecedented violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians a week ago changed course after Hernandez about-faced and issued an unequivocal, point-by-point apology. The Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports: A Colorado legislator apologized Friday for not explicitly condemning the deadly terror attacks […]
awesome + uniting ‘Ring of fire’ eclipse moves across Colorado, Americas Colorado peddling $2.5 million to communities launching their own e-bike rebates Bigfoot ‘spotted’ in Colorado in broad daylight — and it’s all on camera: ‘We’re convinced’ awesome + controversy Union, Kaiser reach tentative agreement to avoid further strikes Colorado judge strikes down Trump’s attempt […]
The Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain updates on the ongoing case of Andersen v. Griswold, filed by a group of Republican and unaffiliated voters seeking to force Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to remove ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause: Trump’s lawyers argued in September that […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have some extra pod! Logan Davis of the Colorado Times Recorder has been investigating the school board politics in a small town just north of Colorado Springs for the better part of a year, and he’s got a crazy story to tell that everyone with an […]
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