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► It’s mail ballot time in Colorado. Ballots for the 2015 election should be arriving in your mailbox this week. Go to GoVoteColorado.com to check your voter registration status or to print out a sample ballot.
► Looking for real issues that will dominate the 2016 election cycle? Ensuring fair wages and rewarding the hard work of Americans will be a key theme, say economists. From Aldo Svaldi of the Denver Post:
The issues of stagnant wages and wealth inequity will dominate the discussion before next year’s presidential election — and unleash some unusual political dynamics, predicts a leading labor economist.
“It will be one of the main topics in the presidential election next year,” said Lawrence Mishel, who has closely studied the issue…
…Since 1973, worker productivity has risen 73 percent, according to an EPI analysis. Higher productivity should result in higher wages, Mishel said, but that link is broken, a reflection of deliberate policy decisions by both parties over several administrations.
Median worker wages, adjusted for inflation, are up only 9 percent over the same period, with most of that coming in the late 1990s. Millennials are the most educated generation in U.S. history, yet they earn less than previous generations and struggle to find jobs in their fields. [Pols emphasis]
You hear that, Millennials? You can still vote with your wallet even if it’s empty.
Get even more smarter after the jump…
► The first debate among Democratic Presidential candidates is Tuesday in Las Vegas, and CNN expects “significantly smaller” ratings compared to the first two Republican debates — no surprise given that most voters probably can’t name another candidate other than Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Chris Cillizza of “The Fix” outlines what to expect in the first Democratic showdown of the 2016 campaign.
Elsewhere, polling data shows that Clinton may be in for a serious fight in Iowa and New Hampshire, but she continues to enjoy widespread support in early voting states such as South Carolina and Nevada.
► Speaking of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator held a rally in Boulder on Saturday before a crowd of about 9,000 people.
► Some prominent Democratic donors in Colorado are matching their support for Hillary Clinton by donating to an effort to draft Vice President Joe Biden to seek the Presidency.
► Remember that Congressional committee that was hastily called in order to “investigate” Planned Parenthood? They investigated alright — and found nothing:
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that the GOP’s investigation into Planned Parenthood’s use of federal funds hasn’t turned up anything…
…“Did we find any wrongdoing? The answer was no,” Chaffetz said.
Benghazi!
► With two more shootings on Friday, there have now been 47 school shootings in the United States in 2015 alone.
► Sorry, but it’s hard to build a disaster narrative out of 500 gallons of mine water.
► University of Colorado President Bruce Benson will “sit out” the Oct. 28th GOP Presidential debate in Boulder. Benson has long played a prominent role in state and national Republican politics, but he’ll be on vacation in California when the Clown Car rolls into the Coors Event Center in two weeks.
► Congressman Jared Polis (D-Boulderish) is pushing legislation that would help college students save money on textbooks.
► U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in Greeley on Friday to kick off a nationwide tour promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
► We’re a little more than two weeks away from the Oct. 28 Republican Presidential debate in Boulder. On Friday, we asked Pols readers to vote on which GOP candidate is most likely to be the next to drop out of the race altogether.
► As you are probably well aware, it is illegal for campaigns and Super PACs to coordinate with each other. Of course, this doesn’t mean that coordination doesn’t still take place, but few politicians are as bad about pretending otherwise as Jeb! Bush. Ol’ Jeb! stuck his foot in his mouth during a radio interview on Friday:
“We just started to advertise—actually the Right to Rise PAC started to advertise, not our campaign.”
D’oh!
► The Denver Broncos are now 5-0, making them one of just a half-dozen undefeated teams left in the NFL. Peyton Manning is still alive, as far as we can tell.
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