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Editor’s note: as this story has developed over the last couple of days, it’s become clear that all parties, beginning with Denver Police, have been improperly identifying the alleged perpetrator. The suspect uses the name Ariel Attack, and her gender identification has been misreported. We’re reminded of the recent successful hate crime prosecution by GOP […]

The Denver Post’s Michael Riley caught up with CD-4 candidate Cory Gardner yesterday, and asked him about his odd statement from a campaign stop this week that seemed to imply doubts about the citizenship of President Barack Obama. A popular (according to some polls, crazily popular) discussion item among the “Tea Party” set, the claim […]

Rep. Betsy Markey is a freshman Democrat who represents a congressional district rated by the Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) as “R+6”–meaning a district that demographically leans Republican. As a supporter–with caveats–of the health care reform bills making their way through Congress, she would be considered on a short list of Democrats targeted by conservative […]

We’ve been talking most of this week about North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling’s new set of automated telephone poll results–represented as bad news for Democrats, the underlying methodology leaves the poll rather open to deconstruction. Chief among the issues critics have raised with this latest poll is an apparent gross oversampling of self-identified GOP voters […]

Grand Junction Sentinel columnist Bill Grant has a worthy take: Rep. Steve King must have gone to bed a disappointed politician Saturday night. In a churlish online letter to The Daily Sentinel on Wednesday, King bragged, “the fact is most people in Mesa County will listen to the president on Obama-care the same day the […]

We finally got around to reading gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry’s column in yesterday’s Grand Junction Sentinel and, well, it’s pretty bad. By bad we don’t mean poorly written, Penry is articulate enough–we mean bad as in a string of disproven Tea Party canards. To casual observers, the president’s choice of Grand Junction as a venue […]

As the Denver Post reports: Call it the mayhem on AM. For the past two days, former Colorado U.S. Rep. and current Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis has been engaged in a verbal battle with radio-show hosts Craig Silverman and Dan Caplis. The issue: whether McInnis made good enough on a congressional staffer’s statement in […]