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We’ve been writing about Colorado politics since late 2004. This means we’ve seen several election cycles come and go, and we’ve lived through–and diligently called the plays–for a number of hotly contentious primaries on both sides of the aisle. In just about every case where a primary election is close at hand, the debate tends […]

Before it slips any further back in the rear-view mirror, last week’s NEWS4/Channel 12 debate between GOP Senate candidates Jane Norton and Ken Buck featured an interesting exchange over the role of outside, particularly Washington D.C. interests in their respective campaigns. Now the “family ties” that Buck is referring to, as we’ve discussed many times, […]

Politico’s David Catanese reports: “Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I’m on the camera? God, what am I supposed to do?” Buck says on the tape, according to his campaign. Buck campaign spokesman Owen Loftus told POLITICO that the candidate spent Sunday explaining and […]

A brief exchange at the end of yesterday’s debate between GOP candidates Jane Norton and Ken Buck, moderated by 9NEWS’ Adam Schrager, bears further examination. In the clip above, Norton repeats her claim that she cut “budgets under her control” in state government–both as Lieutenant Governor and as head of the state Department of Public […]

Considering the fever pitch the GOP has been at for months now, in hope of irretrievably poisoning the critical independent bloc of voters against Democratic candidates and making big gains in the upcoming election, this memo from respected polling firm Gallup isn’t a good sign–especially in Colorado, where unaffiliated voters are if anything more decisive […]

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper’s supporters are pushing back on reports yesterday about statements he made in a debate with GOP opponent Scott McInnis at the Denver Petroleum Club earlier this week. In particular, the report from the AP’s Steven Paulson of the event seems to have focused on one portion of Hickenlooper’s remarks pertaining […]

Despite the endless accusations of bias against GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, we’ve been watching–and fairly reporting–a troubling tendency on the part of Democratic nominee John Hickenlooper to throw traditional Democratic allies under the wheels whenever it’s convenient or politically advantageous. Hickenlooper has seen fit, while alternately promising to “stay out of” contentious legislative debates, […]