(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%
As NBC News reports this morning, the resolution of a long-unsolved crime related to the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has created a new, or depending on your point of view the same old headache for President Donald Trump in his never-ending quest […]
As readers know, the political football over the permanent home of the U.S. Space Command with its attendant thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in public investment has been one of the more brazen examples of Donald Trump’s transactional style of leadership, at length rewarding the loyal Republican state of Alabama with the prize […]
As the Department of War and the Justice Department continue their “investigations” into a video featuring six Democratic lawmakers reminding members of the U.S. military of their obligation to refuse illegal orders, the Republican counterargument that no illegal order had ever been issued by the Trump administration, a cornerstone of their case that these six […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we can finally shut up about the shut down as it has met a rather anticlimactic end right in time for the holiday travel crunch, but, the only thing we care about is…WHO WON, and, hey, what the hell is going on with all those healthcare premiums anyway…and, […]
In Donald Trump’s first Presidential administration, he was often mocked for regularly claiming that the White House was two weeks away from unveiling a health care plan that would be cheaper and more effective and better tasting than the Affordable Care Act (ACA). During the 2024 Presidential election, Trump took that idea to a new […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Wednesday was the deadline for most campaigns to submit Q3 (July – September) fundraising reports. The last fundraising quarter of the year is often much weaker for candidates because of the holiday season, so Q3 numbers can offer the best look at a campaign’s finances until early next year. We’ll run down the […]
Every election cycle brings its share of gadfly candidates, from the inexplicable first-timers to those who have run again and again (we’re looking at you, Greg Lopez). Thus far the 2026 election cycle has dozens upon dozens of candidates seeking all manner of political office. If history is any guide, 75% of these candidates will […]
Back in June, we took note of a series of photo-op stops by America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans to locations in his district who have been or are about to be negatively impacted by policies of the Trump administration, and in particular the “We’re All Going To Die Act” federal budget bill for […]
After a six-day special session of the Colorado legislature called to rebalance Colorado’s budget after the federal “Big Hateful Budget Bill” blew a billion-dollar hole in the state’s finances, you’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. Join PNC Executive Director Sara Loflin for a discussion on what just happened to Colorado’s budget, healthcare funding, and […]
We’re taking the rare step of posting the text of President Donald Trump’s wild and wacky screed early this morning presumably in response to a headline about Jeffrey Epstein he didn’t like, to ensure that search engines capture every word of it for posterity: I am going to lead a movement to get rid of […]
Lawmakers will reconvene next Thursday for a special legislative session in order to figure out how to make another $800 million dollars in cuts to the state budget necessitated by President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit bill” enacted by Congress in early July. In the meantime, Colorado Republicans have been trying very hard to put their […]
UPDATE: Jesse Paul of The Colorado Sun makes the same point about unserious Republicans in the legislature: —– We knew it was coming after Congressional Republicans passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful, bullshit budget bill” last month, and here it is: Another special legislative session. As Seth Klamann reports for The Denver Post: For the third […]
We don’t normally find much credible to cite over at the conservative website Complete Colorado, once colloquially known as Colorado Drudge before the world forgot who Matt Drudge ever was, but a story from the weekend by right-wing paid poison pen Sherrie Peif did catch our attention–a piece ostensibly reporting on, but without much subtlety […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the 2025 legislative session has adjourned ‘Sine Die,’which is latin for “a lot of things that happened this year made us want to die.” We check in with the Trump Trainwreck as tariffs, trust, and traitors start to weigh heavy on the regime. Then, Colorado’s future one-term Congressman […]
President Trump underwent the first known physical examination of his second term last week. As you might expect, Trump got a glowing bill of health from the White House “doctor.” As BBC explains without cracking a smile: As a part of Friday’s nearly five-hour medical examination at the Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, Trump […]
Yesterday afternoon, Gov. Jared Polis signed what will go down as one of the most noteworthy pieces of legislation of the 2025 session, a bill that establishes new education requirements for the purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms like the AR-15 class of “assault weapons” used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in recent American […]
As Politico reports, the announcement yesterday of sweeping job cuts at the federal Department of Health and Human Services under new Secretary Robert F. “Leatherface” Kennedy Jr. set off the latest round of panic as the Trump 2.0 administration’s Great Leap Forward bulldozes its way through institutions most of us take for granted…along with not […]
As AP’s Lisa Mascaro reports via 9NEWS, an outburst last night from a Democratic member of Congress during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress could lead to further punishment by the GOP-controlled House against Rep. Al Green of Texas: As Green rose to speak, shaking his walking cane at the president, […]
As The Colorado Sun reports, one of the dimmest bulbs in the House Republican Caucus — and there’s a lot of competition there — has decided to take a shot at the top job in Colorado: State Rep. Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs Republican, announced Sunday while he was leading a church service that he […]
How did Harris lose to the most unqualified individual to ever hold the office of President? Ok, there are three main things I’m going to discuss: Why did Trump win? We have survived this before. What do we do now? Why Did Trump Win? I don’t know (I have my suspicions). No one knows, which […]
For the last month or so, we’ve been conducting weekly polls on this site to get a sense of how readers of Colorado Pols are feeling about the two tightest congressional races in Colorado. (Here’s Poll #1, Poll #2, Poll #3, Poll #4, and Poll #5) As we’ve noted many times, our readers have been […]
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump descends upon the Gaylord Resort in [squints] Aurora today to air his rambling list of grievances and explain why everyone in Colorado has been killed by Venezuelan gangs. And Aurora taxpayers get to pay for it (the reimbursement check will undoubtedly not be in the mail). If you’re planning on […]
We’re just 42 days away from the 2024 general election, and as Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland and Caitlyn Kim report, the divided Colorado Republican Party’s disorganization and lack of resources to assist candidates at any level this year is becoming a full-scale emergency–and despite the urgency with yet another looming catastrophe at the polls […]
Last week, freshman state Rep. Gabe Evans, running for Congress in Colorado’s ultra-swing CO-08 against incumbent Rep. Yadira Caraveo, announced that the Libertarian candidate in the race Eric Joss was pulling out and endorsing Evans–a potentially significant development after Joss received a greater number of votes in the 2022 election than Caraveo’s margin of victory […]
The issue of abortion rights has been a real problem for Republicans since the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade that removed federal protections for the procedure. Since that decision, voters in every state that have had an opportunity to vote on the issue — including beet-red states such as Kansas — have overwhelmingly […]
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