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We’re just going to post the email we received a few minutes ago verbatim. Links to related material helpfully supplied by your hosts: Dear Colorado Pols, In your dishonorable attempts to spread dissention and disunity in the Colorado Republican Party by shopping name after name for the next Chairman, you left out the one man […]

As the Denver Post reports: Colorado Republicans, sifting through the ashes of three disastrous election cycles, are in the midst of a vigorous debate over how to win again in a state where their future looks bleak. That struggle is likely to play out over the next few months, key players say, starting with a […]

It’s a consensus view that state Sen. Josh Penry hurt himself politically as a primary backer of Amendment 52, which failed Tuesday by a resounding margin. An initiative that would have stripped money from water projects to fund highway projects, Amendment 52 will likely stigmatize its backers in much the same way the toxic Referendum […]

Ok, let’s get your list of tonight’s winners and losers. Colorado perspective but national too. Tonight’s winners: The American people & the country. The National Democratic party – President, more Senate/House seats. Betsy Markey (and team) – a gigantic win. “Boulder Liberals” (and their standard-bearer Mark Udall) – preferred over Republicans by 10% of the […]

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed indications that GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer was hoarding campaign cash instead of spending it, signaling a recognition that the Senate campaign was lost and a possible future run–perhaps for his former CD-4 seat held (for the moment) by embattled successor Marilyn Musgrave. A Denver Post article from […]