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First 2024 Presidential Debate Open Thread
Winners and Losers of the 2024 Colorado Primaries
WINNERS Campaign Fundamentals Running for elected office is hard, but it isn’t particularly complicated. You shake a lot of hands, raise a lot of money, and then use those funds to get your name and message out to potential voters. There were a lot of candidates who lost on Tuesday after failing to check some […]
Primary Election Day 2024 Open Thread
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” –Gerald R. Ford
Juneteenth 2024 Open Thread
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” –Frederick Douglass
Buy The Greatest (Or Worst) Trump T-Shirt of 2024 While You Can
As readers may know, Donald Trump’s campaign has instructed Republican campaigns across the country to avoid fundraising appeals that invoke Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felony counts in New York related to the cover-up of Trump’s “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Since the conviction, Trump has reportedly enjoyed a massive influx of […]
Mike Lynch Gets Perfect Ending to Disastrous 2024
It may seem hard to believe, but 2024 is already halfway over. There might not be any Colorado politician more ready for this year to just end entirely than State Rep. Mike Lynch (R-Wellington). Lynch began the year as the House Minority Leader and a plausibly-strong challenger for Congress in CO-04. Things went downhill from […]
Memorial Day Weekend 2024 Open Thread
May 21st, 2024: The Day The Colorado Republican Party Died
As 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark reported last night, the Colorado Republican Party sent out an email blast yesterday that if we’re to take it at face value completely resets the debate over education policy in Colorado, making claims and recommendations so far from the mainstream no matter what your views on public education may be that […]
Ramey Johnson’s State House Campaign Epitomizes Colorado GOP in 2024
Republican “Zombie” Ramey Johnson has long been a recurring character in this space because of her seemingly never-ending quest to win election to something. Her sad sack 2024 campaign is her 11th such effort since 2000, which makes running for office more of a hobby than a serious undertaking… And that makes her the perfect […]